I’m sure I read somewhere that during a test flight TSR2 applied reheat to one engine only and the Lighting chase aircraft couldn’t keep up even with full burners!

I’m pretty sure that’s on Damien’s site, as linked earlier.

I’m still impressed by his ‘thirty bob’ Chinese tailor and what he can do with old aprons.

You’d think a self-made man would have avoided being taken to the cleaners by that tailor. 🙂

Good luck at Reno Steve.

That was one of the major problems, the leg had to rotate through 180º before retracting. XR220 and on had an extra drag-link (wrong description I’m sure but best I can think of offhand) to try to permanently cure the problem.

Mike Lithgow went to Libya for the short-lived Swift record (“for that very reason”).

John, it was a couple of years ago. He had an overwhelming desire to hit anybody rich, just because they were rich.
Strange people you have over there.

I’ve never got involved with the infighting here and I’m not going to start now.

However, I would be interested to know if the other mods have ever felt it necessary to ban somebody immediately.
The only ones I can recall are from when there was only Webbie, with the Australian thug and the idiot who thought it was funny to keep going on about lamp-posts.

There’s a difference between specialist and raw materials. I spent many years selling (commercial) aluminium alloys. It’s a long time ago now but I’m fairly confident all our aircraft alloy mills had ceased production by the early 80’s.

Yes. We would also have been able to build aircraft without having to import most of the specialised materials we do now.

Export orders would have been very likely from Australia if Mountbatten hadn’t stuck his oar in, the Luftwaffe were interested. Others I don’t know.

There is no denying the figures the RAF requested were plucked out of thin air with no idea of how feasible they were. The management was ludicrous and largely politically driven. The design wasn’t far removed from the original English Electric layout but some idiot behind a desk gave Vickers the design lead.

By the time of cancellation the severe technical difficulties had been largely overcome, including the extremely advanced terrain following radar, I believe most of the RAF requirements had been met and IT WORKED, despite all the built-in likelihood of it failing.

From your previous posts I gather you never approved of TSR.2 and are pleased it was cancelled. Why?