I simply could not believe the changes from the 1964 low thrust 1hr life (nozzles down) 25hr life (nozzles aft) engine that I had started on.
Indeed, it's amazing how things developed over almost 50 years! Perhaps TSR2 and Rotodyne would have seen equally significant development given the benefit of time?
Sorry for having been being rather intemperate in some earlier posts, but myths about many cancelled UK aircraft programmes cannot be left unchallenged.
And for the record, I consider the UK's premature scrapping of the Harrier GR9A and
particularly the Sea Harrier F/A2 (with AIM-120 and Link16) to have been scandalous.