TANKING with the TUDOR

TUDOR REFUELLING During the short and troubled life of the Avro Tudor, several proposals were made to use in-flight refueling. Aided by other Avro types, the idea nearly came to pass, but was frustrated by events — not least some of the disasters that befell the Tudor family Although it never became reality, this 1946 painting by Keith Shackleton — supplied with thanks to Robert Perera Fine Art of Lymington — depicts a Tudor being refueled from a Lancaster tanker.