British Aircraft Corporation TSR2

Just sit back, watch & listen. Its very well done. I was at school and from our classroom windows we could see here flying out & back to Boscombe Down. What a waste.

Roly Beaumont is the pilot and the airfield, as if you didn't know, is Warton.

I was a young RAF man then and had great hopes for TSR2 which had many innovative features but 'old hat' by today's design standards, but I was amazed when the project was cancelled and when, later, we had to buy the Phantom!

The political decision was emphatic and BAC even had to destroy the build jigs quickly in case someone in power changed their minds.

Somewhere I have a beautiful pic of the aircraft in flight with everything down and it looks like a bird of prey.

Wonderful footage. Is it all shot at Warton?

To my childish eyes, TSR 2 had babies. They were called Jaguars.

T.

Lets not split hairs here but I can see the Brabazon Hangar and Beacon Hill. I think its shots from several flights, Wartan & Boscombe Down.

This is a nice film as well

No, not all shot a Warton as Richard says. It includes flight footage flown from Boscombe Down too from what I can see. Probably Test Flight 14 when 219 flew from BD but landed at Warton on 22 Feb 1965.

I can't remember the date, but I do remember caling in at Boscombe - en-route to Chilmark by road - to pick up some items for disposal and there was a terrific 'flap' on so we were ignored and went on our way. Found out later that the fuselage of one of the prototypes had been dropped from a trailer!

Thanks Buccaneer for that clip, it answers it all, that it would have been a wonderful aircraft. Its funny (Ha! Ha!) that if it had come into service that it could still be flying just and where are all those wonderful politicians now that we so freely voted for to make it a better world for us. Churchill for all his faults said to look to history for your answers.

PETERTHEEATER;31350 wrote:

... even had to destroy the build jigs quickly.

One thing they didn't destroy was the manufacturer's name plate of one of the aircraft - cos I've seen it.
Would have to shoot you (then myself) if I revealed its location though.

Graham