UK - Air Force Avro Tudor 8 VX195

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1 piotro
(12 April 2010 - 23:12 CET)
Amazing, unique pictures. Thanks for sharing.

2 aerovet
(13 April 2010 - 22:57 CET)
Seeing this picture the name AVRO Ashton came up in my mind... Wasn't that plane related to this Tudor 8 ???? Thanks for posting these great pictures, your father made! Hopefully there are more of these rareties.......... Regards Aerovet

3 Wallace Shackleton
(14 April 2010 - 09:23 CET)
From Wikipedia, "The Avro 689 Tudor 9 was based on the Avro 689 Tudor II piston-engined airliner using experience on work on the Rolls-Royce Nene jet-powered experimental variant the Tudor 8. The Avro Type 689 Tudor 9 later renamed the Avro 706 Ashton was a four-jet engined research aeroplane powered by Rolls-Royce Nene engines paired in wing nacelles."

4 Emanuel Linert
(14 April 2010 - 20:32 CET)
WOW this photo is old!! Great! Thanks for sharing!

5 J.K.Evans
(25 April 2010 - 00:09 CET)
The second prototype Tudor I was rebuilt to Tudor IV standards. It was later fitted with four Rolls-Royce Derwent 5 turbojets in under-wing paired nacelles. Given the military identification VX195, The Tudor 8 carried out its first flight at Woodford on 6 September 1948, and a few days later, it was demonstrated at the SBAC Show at Farnborough. Later, the Tudor 8 was used for high-altitude experiments tests at Boscombe Down and RAE Farnborough before being broken up in 1951

6 Nello Corrado
(28 July 2011 - 12:18 CET)
This kind of picture are very important! thanks to you and your father

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