First flight of the BAC TSR-2

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On this day in aviation history, 62 years ago (September 27, 1964), the British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 took flight for the first time. Flown by test pilot Roland Beamont

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technolog...1&cvid=6ab99df919a24504808e0b3c44f6975b&ei=10

- Don

 

[Paul K]

I've seen the remaining two; at Cosford and Duxford. A very mythologised aircraft - the amount of guff, conspiracies and downright ignorance of facts is laughable.

 

[Tako_Kichi]

The TSR-2 debacle was as bad as the earlier Avro Arrow debacle. Two brilliant aircraft that were way ahead of their times destroyed by political interference.

 

[Paul K]

The TSR-2 debacle was as bad as the earlier Avro Arrow debacle. Two brilliant aircraft that were way ahead of their times destroyed by political interference.

Can't speak for the Arrow, but the TSR-2s cancellation was due to more issues than simply political interference. In the end, even the RAF didn't want it. The government of the day was right to finish it off.

 

[Tako_Kichi]

I know cost over-runs crippled the development too.

 

[Blackbird686]

I think the "spy satellite" technology basically was the death nell for the SR-71.
Politics killed the TSR-2 A plane that literally blew the doors off what was currently in service at the time.