Originally Posted by FantomZorbin
On a school visit to Vickers at Brooklands being shown the first RAF VC10 being built still 'on the stocks'. FZ poked his head round a hessian screen and there was the TSR2 in all its glory - this was well after the political chop. "You weren't meant to see that!" said the guide rather taken aback.
I believe it may have been taken away to Orford Ness for BDR trials etc. subsequently.
Interesting, seeing as the TSR2 was cancelled in April 1965 and the first RAF VC10 flew in November of that year, it looks like you may have seen some of the airframes which were in production when the project was cut. The first two airframes, XR219 and XR220 have never been back at Brooklands since, as far as I know...