The Killing of the TSR2 - BBC Radio 4, 7th Jan

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The afternoon play on Radio 4 today (14:15-15:00): "The true story of the struggle to build TSR2, the British-built world-beating fighter jet that never was. Years ahead of its time technologically, it was scrapped by the Labour government in 1965, after just one supersonic test flight."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pl1gx

Edit: just read the cut-&-paste above. Fighter jet? :bang:
 
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Lord Louis Mountbatten had a big part to play in the cancellation - he said that for one TSR2 we could build 5 Buccanears. In the end they chose Buccanears and Phantoms instead of the TSR2.
 
I always thought the Americans had something to do with it? Wasn't it more of a political decision rather than a financial one? I recall something about they destroying them in the open to show they really were gone. Or am I thinking of something else as there is still one at Duxford, isn't there?
 
chameleon said:
I always thought the Americans had something to do with it? Wasn't it more of a political decision rather than a financial one? I recall something about they destroying them in the open to show they really were gone. Or am I thinking of something else as there is still one at Duxford, isn't there?
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You maybe thinking of B52's.
TSR2 never got into production. Only prototypes were built.
May also be one at Cosford.
 
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I'm sure I remember a programme shoing them lined up somewhere, getting very publicly broken up. Usually when a hugely expensive project is shelved, they are disposed of very discreetly and quietly.
 
There's one at Cosford. Incredible thing.
 
Is it just me or do they look dead like the Angel Interceptors from Captain Scarlett?
 
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