View from the flight deck

INSIGHTS AVRO TUDOR The Avro Tudor generated strong opinions, but readers of Flight were given an objective view of its flying qualities by assistant editor Maurice Smith, whose three-page report from the left-hand seat of BSAA’s G-AHNN Star Leopard was published in March 1948. Although he discovered no unpleasant characteristics, his flight in a lightly loaded aircraft was relatively brief and no doubt part of an attempt to rehabilitate the Tudor. Accompanying him was Avro’s chief test pilot, Jimmy Orrell.