I have bumped into bits of TSR-2 on my travels,

Ejector seat at FAST in Farnborough

Seat and canopy in Midland Air Museum

Undercarriage door and wing section at Newark air museum

Cockpit section at Brooklands (Gutted)

Cockpit guage at Doncaster Museum

About three years ago an instrument from the BAC cockpit mock up went on E-bay for a mild amount:eek: .

I bet there is more around if truth be told.

John.

Had a spin on the website this morning and there is some fantastic shots and info, the wet start on XX894 is mind blowing!.

Is there anything left of the experimental radar set up on 897, seem to remember it was for the Tornado programme?.

Regards,

John.

Thanks Rocketeer, it would be nice to put a little history to it because it is quite a significant manual (to me anyway:) ).

Regards,

John.

Kieth Rosenkranz, an F16 pilot wrote a book called ‘Vipers in the Storm’ about his experiences in the first Gulf war.

He goes into great detail about the transit flight to Iraq which took over 16 hours and he was issued with amphetamines or ‘uppers’ as they are more commonley known, to be taken every two hours during the flight to keep the pilot’s alert.

Upon landing they were then issued with sleepng pills or ‘downers’ to bring them back to reality and allow them to recover from such a long flight.

Maybe no historic relevance but it demonstrates how past history has become common practice.

Regards,

John.

Rob, the trouble is that the poster’s got just as much idea of the answer as anyone else and has the nouse to find the information. One might question why there’s a need to list serials but not bother looking them up on a well-known database….. or is the forum supposed to do all of BlueRobin’s homework for him?

Robbo, has it not occured to you that ‘the poster’ or shall we call him BlueRobin to be polite was only trying to start a thread about what he can see that may or may not be listed on the AA website.

It is obviouse to people that websites are not updated on a daily basis and as aircraft move around this arouses peoples interest and posting these movements on fora to start a discusion and find out any information is perfectly reasonable.

John.

Well worth a Visit??????

Are you kidding!!!!:D , I have allready discussed it with friends and a soon as the fair weather and sunshine arrive I will be making a trip to see MAM.

I remember my last visit, seeing her when she was first delivered and thinking how messy she looked, but what a job:) she looks great.

Well done to you all.

John.

As some know the E E Lightning had development potential for ground attack roles, 1000lb bombs, Genie, Matra rocket packs, napalm and even nuclear capability.

All this came to nought as the goverment ended further development but I can only wonder if we had gone to Vietnam then the developments would have been implemented and made a formidable interceptor/ground support aircraft.
Extended range was a posibillity and the use of sidewinders would have made it unbeatable, especially against the Mig-21.

The Hunter would have been a good ground support aircraft I think, bomb loads, napalm and rocket pods would have been on the shopping list but the lack of supersonic dash for escape and evasion may have made it an easy target for Migs.

The goverment of the day in the early to mid sixties strangled the development of a lot of brilliant projects, projects that would no doubt have been implimented if we had gone to war and would have made a very different RAF than the one we have today.

Regards,

John.