Avro Tudor
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Avro's Type 688 Tudor was a British piston-engined airliner based on their four-engine Lincoln bomber itself a descendant of the famous Lancaster heavy bomber and was Britain's first pressurised airliner. Despite having a reasonably long range customers saw the aircraft as little more than a pressurised DC-4 Skymaster and few orders were forthcoming important customers preferring to buy US aircraft. The tailwheel undercarriage layout was also dated and a disadvantage.

Avro Tudor for FS9/FSX The Avro Tudor was a British airliner from 1947, used mainly by British South American Airways, and 1
The Avro Tudor IV was a converted warplane that was eventually taken out of passenger service because of its poor safety record.2
After the war, Roy Chadwick designed the Avro Tudor, which was Britain’s first pressurised airliner, however, with the development of jet airliners at de Havilland, very few Tudors were built.3
airliner, the Avro TudorAvro TudorAvro's Type 688 Tudor was a British piston-engined airliner based on their four-engine Lincoln bomber, itself a descendant of the famous Lancaster heavy bomber, and was 4
An Avro Tudor V (G-AKBY) crashes whilst making an approach to land at Llandow airfield, killing 80 people.5
Avro Tudor was a Converted Warplane. - RuthAS Avro Tudor was a Converted Warplane.6
Bombers and 12 Avro Tudor airliners, (a pressurised airliner which shared the wing and engine design of the Lincoln) however despite creating a wooden mockup of the Tudor in 1948 the Tudor was dropped 7
from a few new Avro Tudor airliners sitting outside hangers on the far side of the airfield, but every hour or so a Fairey Firefly would buzz into the circuit, land, then taxi away into 8
From Cardiff, in Wales, a four-engined Avro Tudor V took off one day last week for the 200-mile hop across the Irish Sea to Dublin.9
South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Tudor aircraft in the airlift.10

Made by Avro.

It is the successor of the Avro Lincoln .

The Avro Shackleton and Avro Tudor are variants of the Avro Lincoln.11
The Avro Tudor conversion involved making a double freight door on the port side of the aircraft, strengthening the floor and upgrading the main landing gear and braking 12
The Avro Tudor IV was a converted warplane that was eventually taken out of passenger service because of its poor safety record. Only BSAA continued to fly the aircraft.13
Avro Tudor is released as freeware. If and once the germ file cabinet is released finger release alter and repaint it.14
BSAA Avro Tudor 4 G-AHNK Star Lion at Heathrow * BSAA aircraft in flight. 23.15
He died whilst testing a prototype Avro Tudor II which crashed on take-off on 23 August 1947.16
The Avro Tudor was a British airliner from 1947, used mainly by British South American Airways, and later by independent companies like Air Charter.17
The Avro Tudor was a the British airliner from 1947, ill-used primarily by the British Confederacy American Airways, and afterwards by sovereign companies equal Air Charter.18
The Avro Tudor, the Lockheed Constellation and the Orion all turned out to have cylindrical fuselages of approximately the same diameter.19
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British Overseas Airways Corporation
Height Main
670.5600000000001
Designer
Roy Chadwick
Predecessor
Avro Lincoln
Length Alt
24.23 m
Max Takeoff Weight Main
76000.0
Height Alt
6.71 m
Range Main
3
630 mi
Loaded Weight Main
66000.0
Developed Into
Avro Ashton
Type Of Prop
12
Loading Main
54
Developed From
Avro Lincoln
Capacity
24
Max Speed Main
320 mph
Cruise Speed Main
283 mph
Max Takeoff Weight Alt
34500.0
Ceiling Main
30100.0
Number Built
38
Crew
5
Max Speed More
at 8
000 ft
Loaded Weight Alt
30000.0
Cruise Speed Alt
453.0
Area Main
1421.0
Cruise Speed More
at 12
000 ft
Primary user
British South American Airways
Span Alt
36.58 m
Plane Or Copter?
plane
Power Alt
1320.0
Engine(prop)
Rolls-Royce Merlin 100
Manufacturer
Avro
Number Of Props
4
First Flight
14
Production End Year
1949
Climb Rate Main
990.0
Power Main
1
770 hp
Production Start Year
1945
Jet Or Prop
prop
Climb Rate Alt
5 m-s
Length Main
2423.16
Span Main
3657.6
Area Alt
132 m²
Range Alt
5840.0
Similar Aircraft
* Avro Canada Jetliner* Vickers VC.1 Viking
Max Speed Alt
512.0
Related
* Avro Lincoln* Avro Lancastrian* Avro Ashton
Ceiling Alt
9
180 m
Category
Avro aircraft
British airliners 1940-1949
Produced
1945
Loading Alt
261

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