Its a TSR2 Strike Reconnaisance aircraft powered by two Olympus engines and only one ever flew before our labour government scrapped it as an economy measure. At least the engines went into Concorde and the Concorde programme survived thanks to the French. By all accounts from Jimmy Dell and Bee Beaumont, the only test pilots to fly it it would have knocked spots of any other bomber, capable of almost Mach 1 at 50 feet at night in bad weather using terrain following radar and Mach 2 at altitude. I had hoped to fly it had it come into RAF service, as was expected until Wilson wielded the axe, we got Phantoms and Buccaneers instead and Canberras stayed in service longer. And we STILL dont know just who ordered the breakup of all the airframes (exept two) and the jigs, everyone denies responsibilty ! TSR2 was one of the greatest and most disgusting tragedies in British aviation.

Regards,

David Gladwin.