Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "British South American Airways' Lost Planes" video.

The Avro Tudor was the first British Commercial Pressurised aircraft. Fatigue due to pressurisation was not well understood at the time, "The Tudor was built like a battleship. It was noisy, I had no confidence in its engines and its systems were hopeless. The Americans were fifty years ahead of us in systems engineering. All the hydraulics, the air conditioning equipment and the recircling fans were crammed together underneath the floor without any thought. There were fuel-burning heaters that would never work; we had the floorboards up in flight again and again. Gordon Store BSAA Chief Pilot.
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Just basically a flying junk pile. At least that was the opinion of the airlines chief pilot Gordon stone.
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@TheHistoryGuyChannel The Chief Pilot of BSAA Gordon Store , thought the aircraft was a heap of junk, and said so ! also being the first pressurised British Commercial aircraft, at a time when fatigue was little understood, losses are not unexpected.
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@TheHistoryGuyChannel Bear in mind the mindset of the Government , and A V Roe. , a particular British trait (And as I am one I know) defend the undefendable, R101, and Comet. are but two. Boeing currently come to mind.
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@orbyfan Was always spocken as letters , the same with BEA, on whose aircraft I flew many times.
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@Sacto1654 "The Tudor was built like a battleship. It was noisy, I had no confidence in its engines and its systems were hopeless. The Americans were fifty years ahead of us in systems engineering. All the hydraulics, the air conditioning equipment and the recircling [sic] fans were crammed together underneath the floor without any thought. There were fuel-burning heaters that would never work; we had the floorboards up in flight again and again. Gordon Stone, BSAA Chief Pilot.
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