At least TSR2 flew, unlike Hawker's P1129.....
But what chance did it have, given the behaviour of 'Dickie'
Mountbottom decrying it at every opportunity, Zuckerman the Chief Scientific Advisor to the MoD with a clear prejudice for US technology - and a left-wing Labour government.
I too had hoped to fly TSR2 - but it was cancelled about a year before I won my RAF Scholarship.....
Mountbottom even dissuaded the RAAF from buying the TSR2 - they had to wait another 10 years for their 'Pigs', which are only now leaving RAAF service.