Item title reads - Avro Tudor II Britain's biggest aircraft.
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Various shots of chief designer Roy Chadwick with other aircraft experts, C/U of Chadwick. C/U model of his new passenger plane Avro 689 Tudor II. The real aeroplane is wheeled out of its hangar....
Item title reads - Avro Tudor II Britain's biggest aircraft.
Location of events unknown.
Various shots of chief designer Roy Chadwick with other aircraft experts, C/U of Chadwick. C/U model of his new passenger plane Avro 689 Tudor II. The real aeroplane is wheeled out of its hangar. M/S of the 60 people queuing to enter the plane. C/U of chief test pilot Bill Thorn. C/U as engines start up. L/S head on view of plane taking off. Air to air shots of the plane in flight.
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The aircraft seen here is the prototype Avro 689 Tudor II, Reg. No. G-AGSU.
"chief test pilot Thorn" is Bill Thorn.
(Sadly this very aircraft was to crash on 23 August 1947, killing Roy Chadwick, Bill Thorn and 2 other occupants).
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