TSR2 Early Flights

Footage of early test flights, note the unusual retraction of the undercarriage due to the small bay. Further problems were vibrations on landing which produced a judder in the pilots position at the normal eyeball frequency resulting in loss of vision of the runway! Footage from DD Video.

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• TSR2
• TSR-2
• BAC
• Aircraft

[juzzi07]

I like to imagine it in full livery and squadron colours...the way it should have looked...completed and in service.

[cavalier080854]

This would have been the livery colours. Britains NUCLEAR bomber fleet at this time was white with pale roundels and lettering. The cammo livery came in a little later, though given the delays etc it could have entered service in the later colours.

[cavalier080854]

In addition to cancelling TSR2, the Labour government eliminated Bomber Command. This can be found on a YouTube video.

[terencehooper]

a broke nation-germans and japaneeze-the instigators and murderers of ww2,the merikans chose to restore-leaving the brits 2 pay back every penny wiv interest that took 50 yrs 2 repay!-some ally!and the yanks refused 2 bail us out again claiming we could not afford the tsr2 programme-they were right and we the uk got another expensive,extortional loan,and the loss of the worlds most advanced aero-idustry.

[cavalier080854]

Hear, hear, couldn't agree more. The deferal of the repayment of this loan was used to influence the cancellation of the Suez invasion. I wonder if they will hand over the bases in the carribean when their time is up on Lend Lease?

[LightningT5]

Denis Healey was the Minister of Defence in 1965, when TSR.2 was abandoned, under Harold Wilson;s Labour govornmant. He also cancelled a super sonic Harrier varient called P.1154 and a Hawker Siddely STOL transport. Healey was a COMPLETE dick head to say the bare minimum least.

[completeaerogeek]

@omgwtfbbqstfu The F-111 was certainly not useless. The RAAF has only just retired it. It remained the most effective and fastest low level long range precision strike aircraft in the world up until its retirement. It performed outstandingly in the Libya strike in 1986 and  in the 1st Gulf War it proved an outstanding success (precision strike, bunker busting GBU-28, tank plinking) even for a relatively old airframe. It would have been a crucial aircraft has the Cold War turned hot.

[dmax631]

could have been the greatest aircraft ever built, now just scrap metal

[TheFunkadelicFan]

@omgwtfbbqstfu You are either fantastically ill-informed about your own country's history, or you are deliberately baiting the british for some unknown, nefarious reason known only to yourself. If it's the latter, well done, you've succeeded.

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

@TheFunkadelicFan

You must be smoking something because there were about as many brown shirts in the uk as in the us, and there were far more germans living in the us regardless. Neutrality was because of anti war sentiment which had basically the same slogans and reasons as todays anti war movement. Learn some history yourself. The us had bailed you out not that long before as well, costing countless lives

[bomberhayley]

the uk goverment sell out all the time thats the way it is , any thing thats world beating they sell ! nothing changes , just others gloat !

[Firespectrum122]

Christ, what the fuck has labour done to this country...

[TheFunkadelicFan]

@omgwtfbbqstfu We got the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans? What the fuck are you on about? You chose nuetrality, because of the huge support for the Nazis in America. If Germany hadn't declared war on the USA, we and the Soviet Union would have had to manage without you. Bastard, learn some history.

[ultraenglish]

Your obsolete from birth comment confuses me . The RAF had to wait till the Tornado entered service in the early 80s for a strike aircraft that could operate at high and low altitude.

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

@cyclekarl

The f111 was superior, and even then, it was useless. Both aircraft were built for no practical purpose at that point. They needed to be scrapped. like it or not.

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

@cavalier080854

Wrong, the tsr2 was obsolete from its birth. Even the f111 could hold more bombs and even had a gun. Nuclear ballistic missiles made the reason for both aircraft obsolete anyways. The tsr2 was an ungainly almost 100 foot aircraft meant for super sonic nuclear strikes, an expensive and unpractical aircraft that served no purpose in reality. Like it or not it wasn't even that advanced, other planes like the valkyrie were also cancelled.