Originally Posted by
ExAscoteer2
Surely we bought 66.
Oh, I thought it was 60 a/c for £66M? Maybe it was 66 a/c for £60M? Even more of a billy bargain if so!
The holy grail back then had been for a VTOL capability for all types, because the R/W's would be gone by day 2. Shorts offered a flying platform for the TSR2 so that it too could be operated from a NATO STANAG clearing. Whatever the customer wants....