• Short Summary

    Britain's biggest passenger plane the Avro Tudor II takes its test flight.

  • Description

    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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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1378.08
    Media URN:
    45099
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    01/04/1946
    Sound:
    sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:03:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:11:22:00 / 01:12:25:00
    Canister:
    46/26

Comments (4)

  1. Unknown user says

    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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  2. Unknown user says

    Thanks.

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  3. paul1867 says

    The other two killed were
    Squadron Leader David J. Daikie Wilson DSO, DFC who was head of Avro's test section and had served in 617 squadron after the dams raid.
    Mr. J. Webster the radio operator.
    Chadwick, Thorn and Wilson are buried in a graveyard at the edge of Woodford Airfield.
    Two others survived the crash.


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  4. paul1867 says

    The other two crew members who survived were

    Eddie Talbot, flight engineer,
    Stuart Davies, chief designer.

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