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If this slant suggests, not that Healey was bad to chop these things, but that Thorneycroft had not interrogated bright Requirors, you would be right.
IMHO this is a fair summary of what happened . Also , with respect to TSR2, I think many in the previous Conservative administration had also realised that the specification was inappropriate. Many were relieved when Labour (Healey) had to take the flack for a decision which would have had to have been taken anyway by them, had the Conservatives not lost the election.
Incidentally, looking at the stage stops of how TSR-2 was to deploy to the Far East (without AAR!) required hold over airfields fast moving out of the UK’s control under the “winds of change”.
I think Healey bit the bullet pretty well ,under the circumstances. Part of his direct post-HS681 legacy is still with us in the shape of the original Hercules buy, which was surely on reflection good value for the U.K.
Some older forum members may recall how he was heavily attacked for buying an “obsolete” American aircraft at the time!
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