making such a wonderful machine for financial gain is not what i had in mind, though maybe i could draw up a business plan that would allow for corporate sponsors? :diablo: entirely for my own pleasure ill have you all know! :p

i feel wounded at his comments :p hehe, however damien, if you have any handy crayon drawings that you have recently done they would be really appreciated, though i have used the drawings from your website, pretty ace 🙂 i think bex may want you to add another section due to the rather subtle hint dropped 😀

who cares, its useful as a guide, and at least the nice chap spent some time to post it!

well that was a nice positive start to a Saturday morning! im sure if you had read the entire thread, you would realise that its nothing but a pipe dream. im just making the point that it would be wonderful to see one fly, and its not impossible due to the airframe having zero flying hours! you could get one flying if you had about 50 million to spare for the restoration, bribing cosford, and the running costs, but the likelyhood of someone just saying “have 50 million pounds is rather slim” she would be cheaper to maintain that a vulcan anyway! :diablo:

thats amazing! 😀 the story that i have heard is about don knight, my grandparents held a party near warton, (living in lancashire at the time) to which don knight was attending, with his copilot. my grandfather having missed the early train caught the later train from paddington, and just caught the evening news, “TSR.2, Cancelled!” or words to that effect. anyway when he arrived home and joined the party was amazed to find that neither don or his co-pilot knew a thing about the projects cancellation and were stunned to hear about it. as has been said before, WILSON HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR!!! :diablo:

LARGE CASH INJECTION!

Im sure if a charitable multimillionaire donated a nice round sum, cosford would be quite happy to let a team of experienced engineers sort her out! i very much doubt that she would ever be allowed to fly on the basis that the MoD May get jealous that a civvie owns an aircraft that can easily out manouver and out perform anything currently in service 😀 and still i believe that there would be massive contraversy politically with regard to her flying! still a blissfully wonderful dream to spend an afternoon thinking about 😀 soon have that mahoosive model on the go :diablo:

sorry about the deleted thing, i thought that id look like a plonker if i posted a reply twice, on consecutively on my own thread, lol. i do wonder though, neither the one at cosford or the one at duxford have ever flown, so there would be no problem with fatigue life would there? engines would be available in the worm of concorde’s olympus which i have been led to believe is basically the same engine, so with repair to the wiring and hydraulics, it wouldn’t be a lot easier that trying to get a victor or a vulcan back in the air i would have thought, the only problem would be a spares backup! and the fact that technically they are prototypes. yeah a 1/4 scale one would be pretty ace, about 8 and a half metres long! i found a couple of UAV turbojets producing 150lb static thrust each, that should do the job as it will have to weigh less than 80kg i think (LMA exemption or something like that) still would be pretty epic, and i suppose after i had had my fun i would donate her to a museum or something! they could ground run it HAHA 😀

Does anyone have any scale drawings/ three views of TSR2, seriously thinking about building a 1/4 scale jet powered model TSR2, thats probably going to be the closest thing we could get to a flying one 🙂