Stunning, absolutely stunning!:)

Those colours? Black and, beige/cream ? They seem to suit…. any colour pictures at all ? (and apologies, didn’t look at the other thread, am at work and logging in and out):diablo:

Jon

Trouble is, it’s B&W, a colour version still makes it B&W…..anyway, here’s my colour doodle of it. Apparently the tip of the spinner was red.

Baz

The gentleman who lived in my bungalow prior to me found a live WWII Mills grenade in the garden, in a corroded condition, he then placed it in a cardboard box and took it to the local nick and placed it on the counter.

Strangely enough they didn’t want it, the school opposite was evacuated as was several houses nearby. EOD kindly pitched up and detonated it, in a local field as it was too dangerous to remove properly. It caused a right caffufle.

I think it depends on what you have buried in your garden to what degree of interest the MOD/Police will take in it and action (if any) they would take. If it still had a missing pilot on board I would presume they would come a knocking otherwise ?

Woman driver in 110 Landrover at Morrisons seen reversing into my Disco3 then driving off, second woman 5 mins later hitting my shopping trolley which then hit my Disco (again) Thanks

I have never disbelieved for a second that Armstrong, Shepard, Bean et al really did walk on the moon! It makes me mad when I read of any hoax theories.

Don’t get me wrong, I still have high respect for Mitchell, as I would anyone working on Apollo/Gemini/Mercury etc! As much as I’m sold on the truth that there must be life elsewhere in the universe, I don’t believe we’ve been ‘visited’.

Yep, that’s pretty much where I sit, nicely said

cheers

Baz

The F4 weighed in at 60,000lbs max for launch, TSR2 a massive 102,000lb the energy needed to throw it off the bow to full flight speed using the steam catapult is doubtful, the nose oleo would need beefing up and extending to allow correct angle of attack over the bow.
TSR2 could not be taken below deck for servicing or protection from weather, it was just too big.
TSR2 was never designed to land on a carrier, again it was too big and heavy, the undercarraige was not designed from the outset to do so. The arrestor system on the carrier in the 60s was not designed to routinely accepted a 100,000lb aircraft, the pilots of RAF TSR2s would not have had any training messing about with deck operations, the Navy would not have had stick time in TSR2s. The RAF would have had no reason to jepodise a very expensive aeroplane on a carrier and the Navy knew they could do the job with their very capable Buccaneer.

To sum up,
it wouldn’t/couldn’t launch,
you couldn’t maintain it,
it couldn’t land,
it was not needed,
it wasn’t designed too,
the RAF pilots couldn’t,
the Navy pilots didn’t,
Mountbatten would not have allowed it

As chox, Resmoroh, Benyboy and Cking have added……

………..no 😀

I’m just glad we don’t have dangerous wild animals in this country!

just tame one’s

Is there any chance the TSR.2 couldve been used in aircraft carrier operations had it gone into service? With the requirements of the aircraft being similar the those of the buccaneer, one could assume so.

The height of a Carrier hangar at the time was 17′ 6″ and TSR2 was 23′ tall.
Size wise she was a monster, bigger than the Vigilante by a considerable margin, also she was not ‘foldable’ (as was the Buccaneer etc) and at nearly 90′ long I don’t believe she could use the lift anyway. She would have had to have been redesigned from the wheels up and strengthened for deck landings operations.

I think there were political reasons too.(Lord Louis Mountbatten preferred the Buccaneer for his fleet requirements and was anti-TSR2 for the RAF)

as Chox said

Er…..no:D