Is there any evidence of that or is it just heresay? It strikes me that TSR2 has exactly the wrong airframe to be used as a long range interceptor – small wing in comparison to the fuselage, it would have had a poor high level loiter performance. It was designed as a fast, low level strike aircraft – and not one with a huge range, it was a tactical aircraft.

Similarly, it would not have been terrible agile for the same reason – pre fly by wire, the best dogfighters had a large wing area – the F-15 being the prime example.

I don’t think it was the intention for it to be “agile”, or a “dogfighter” The thinking was that she could be pushed up towards the North Cape, from where, using her own radar in conjunction with GCI (eg Saxa Vord), she could launch AAMs against Soviet bombers heading south-west.
Compared to the Lightning, with its very limited fuel capacity and outdated avionics, TSR-2s with tanker support could have fulfilled this role admirably.
As indeed would have been the case whatever she might have been tasked with.

Shortage of airfields that could be be reactivated could probably be overcome as things stand right now. But err, what exactly have we got left to FLY from them?
Madhouse Britain. Two plus two makes 17(ish).

TSR-2 Mk.1
TSR-2 Mk.11
TSR-2 Mk.111
TSR-2 T.3

and err, a Mk.1 Short Stirling chugging along behind.

Sorted.

I forgot to include, leading the formation, an Avro.730. It’s not THAT much of a fantasy either. But for a bunch of short-sighted, inept, criminally incompetent, utter and complete MORONS (no offence) And equally short-sighted, in the historical context, cretinous nonentities (no offence) THIS and so many greater glories would have been ours for the taking.
We NEED a Churchill, we GET a Cameron. Nuff sed.

Anyone got any internal shots of this lady? Much left inside?

I have been told one is going to Cosford at the end of the year no idea which.

Better hurry. It might not be there by the end of the year. Nice to think of all those countless billions we send abroad isnt it?

nah! they wont be scrapped, they will take all the good bits off the old aircraft and keep them, then put all the bads bits together from other aircraft so that they can fly. then they will sell them on to some 3rd world country. probably!!!!

What, like the UK yo mean?

Bruce Barrymore Halpenny wrote a long article on this in his Ghost Stations (Volume 3, I think it was) He then waxed very indignantly in Volume 4 when someone had the temerity to argue with him about it.
As far as I’m concerned, Glen Miller was kidnapped by UFOs and taken to the Mother Ship on the dark side of the Moon(light) Serenade.