British So, what is it
05-24-2006, 09:49 PM
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RE: Canadian So, what is it
ORIGINAL: ozcan
David, The TSR seems to have had a very interesting history.... reminds me of another awesome cold war aircraft which had a similar fate as the TSR. The TSR2 seems to closely parallel the Canadian Arrows demise with a strikingly similar ramifications all for dumbfounded political reasons also, The Arrows axing along with countless jobs at AVro Canada back in the 50's is still regarded as a bone of contention today among many Canadians old enough to still remember. Irony being that after the Arrows axing many of the designers and engineers were hired to work for NASA and British aerospace and worked on the Concorde!
I reckon the world be a much, much better place with less self righteous politicians eh!!!
ORIGINAL: David Gladwin
Its a TSR2 Strike Reconnaisance aircraft powered by two Olympus engines and only one ever flew before our labour government scrapped it as an economy measure. At least the engines went into Concorde and the Concorde programme survived thanks to the French. By all accounts from Jimmy Dell and Bee Beaumont, the only test pilots to fly it it would have knocked spots of any other bomber, capable of almost Mach 1 at 50 feet at night in bad weather using terrain following radar and Mach 2 at altitude. I had hoped to fly it had it come into RAF service, as was expected until Wilson wielded the axe, we got Phantoms and Buccaneers instead and Canberras stayed in service longer. And we STILL dont know just who ordered the breakup of all the airframes (exept two) and the jigs, everyone denies responsibilty ! TSR2 was one of the greatest and most disgusting tragedies in British aviation.
Regards,
David Gladwin.
Its a TSR2 Strike Reconnaisance aircraft powered by two Olympus engines and only one ever flew before our labour government scrapped it as an economy measure. At least the engines went into Concorde and the Concorde programme survived thanks to the French. By all accounts from Jimmy Dell and Bee Beaumont, the only test pilots to fly it it would have knocked spots of any other bomber, capable of almost Mach 1 at 50 feet at night in bad weather using terrain following radar and Mach 2 at altitude. I had hoped to fly it had it come into RAF service, as was expected until Wilson wielded the axe, we got Phantoms and Buccaneers instead and Canberras stayed in service longer. And we STILL dont know just who ordered the breakup of all the airframes (exept two) and the jigs, everyone denies responsibilty ! TSR2 was one of the greatest and most disgusting tragedies in British aviation.
Regards,
David Gladwin.
David, The TSR seems to have had a very interesting history.... reminds me of another awesome cold war aircraft which had a similar fate as the TSR. The TSR2 seems to closely parallel the Canadian Arrows demise with a strikingly similar ramifications all for dumbfounded political reasons also, The Arrows axing along with countless jobs at AVro Canada back in the 50's is still regarded as a bone of contention today among many Canadians old enough to still remember. Irony being that after the Arrows axing many of the designers and engineers were hired to work for NASA and British aerospace and worked on the Concorde!
I reckon the world be a much, much better place with less self righteous politicians eh!!!
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