Tsr2
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Found that the RAF Historical Society published the papers from a symposium on teh TSR2 in about 1997. Facsinating. Essentially the project was dead from about 1962-63.
Shotgun contractors, over egged specification trying to match high level M2.3 with low level transonic, high level range, medium level recce, short field performance (1 000 feet with 600 feet at light load).
Potentially inadequate mapping to support bleeding edge digital computer technology that was already 'full' before flight.
Yes, great airframe, awesome performance but ultimately unaffordably.
Paddy Hine, crystal ball glazing, speculated that we would now have an aged TSR2 with Harrier. We would not have had the Jaguar or the MRCA.
Reluctantly I think the decision was ultimately correct.
Shotgun contractors, over egged specification trying to match high level M2.3 with low level transonic, high level range, medium level recce, short field performance (1 000 feet with 600 feet at light load).
Potentially inadequate mapping to support bleeding edge digital computer technology that was already 'full' before flight.
Yes, great airframe, awesome performance but ultimately unaffordably.
Paddy Hine, crystal ball glazing, speculated that we would now have an aged TSR2 with Harrier. We would not have had the Jaguar or the MRCA.
Reluctantly I think the decision was ultimately correct.
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Would TSR2 have stood the test of time. Tornado is getting long in the tooth; TSR2 would be at the end of its life by now. I wonder where we'd have gone next. Difficult to say I suppose because we'd now be in a very different parallel universe.
Would TSR2 have stood the test of time. Tornado is getting long in the tooth; TSR2 would be at the end of its life by now. I wonder where we'd have gone next. Difficult to say I suppose because we'd now be in a very different parallel universe.
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I remember being told that the Cabinet decision to scrap TSR2 was taken after Mr Healy informed the room that a TSR2 wing had suffered major structural damage whilst undergoing testing.
This was quite true, but two pieces of information were omitted from the statement.
The wing that failed was the wing being tested to destruction and it had exceeded its design limits by some 20%.
This was quite true, but two pieces of information were omitted from the statement.
The wing that failed was the wing being tested to destruction and it had exceeded its design limits by some 20%.
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Ah! Mr. Healey. It was not his wife who was a card carrying communist. When he was at Uni in the 30s ( a great recruiting time for the USSR) he was a card carrying member.
Far better to count the number of times that HW went to Moscow.
Back to Tsr2. When I was at Gaydon, living in quarters at Church Lawford, there was an engineer who had worked at MOD and had something major to do with Tsr2. A good way to make him cry was to say the magic letters. Rumor has it that his wife was expert in getting exactly what she wanted, when she wanted it by doing same.
Far better to count the number of times that HW went to Moscow.
Back to Tsr2. When I was at Gaydon, living in quarters at Church Lawford, there was an engineer who had worked at MOD and had something major to do with Tsr2. A good way to make him cry was to say the magic letters. Rumor has it that his wife was expert in getting exactly what she wanted, when she wanted it by doing same.
