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The BAC TSR-2 was to be the RAF's foremost combat aircraft for the 1960's onwards, replacing the Canberra in the Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance role. The aircraft was to have supersonic capability at tree-top height and was the first aircraft in the World to be equipped with a Head-Up-Display (HUD). The TSR project was subsequently murdered in 1964 by a short-sighted Labour government, and all project material and prototypes ordered destroyed. A decision motivated mostly by pressure from the US to not compete with their F-111 Aardvark in the global market. Music: Gary Jules - Mad World. |
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Footage of early test flights, note the unusual retraction of the undercarriage due to the small bay. Further problems were vibrations on landing which produced a judder in the pilots position at the normal eyeball frequency resulting in loss of vision of the runway! Footage from DD Video. |
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THE TSR2 is Back XR219
Exer two one niner
You just cant keep a good plane down....
at Boscombe Down. TSR2 takes off in
the recent rains that soaked the UK on a Short Test Flight with Chase aircraft monitoring external functions. |
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TSR2 FARNBOROUGH UK EARLY MORNING TRAINING FLIGHT. |
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BAC TSR2 NARVIK
and HOLDING AT STAVANGER
STAY TUNED |
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An Abbreviated Trailer for 2 new videos.Virtual cgi
Toronto Pearson, The Rare Avro Arrow and BAC TSR2 FLY IN TO give an Airshow and Be An airshow open to
to the public From July 18 thru JULY 22
Admission Free
stay tuned for The Real Video
Also
The Misadventures of Fl lt P.W. GIXER
"Gixer happens to be at the Airport when
an intergalactic space vehicle mysteriously lands. Being the adventurer and explorer that he is he takes a chance and hops in when the door opens.
apparently unfazed by the lack of any crew of any description he happily but cautiously looks around the flight deck. When suddenly a mysterious white cloud emanates from the walls and he finds himself being sucked out thru the opening big square doorways of the huge craft and thrust into the cockpit of an old De Havilland Swallow which has silvery glowing wings, Before he can grasp his sitution and orient his senses in moments he now finds himself sitting in the righthand seat of The famous Spruce Goose with Howard Hughes at the controls . Howard is intent on landing the Goose coming in over the green fields and meadows of Kent in South eastern England and over Rochester Castle for a landing on the Medway River....now see the video for the rest.
Chk this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66bNdFRh79A |
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Brit Aircraft Corp TSR2
Canadian Avro Arrow
TSR2s wonderfull to fly so My Version of : "Just Once in The Afternoon, Please"
flight that didnt happen . If it had of happened it would have been a perfect landing.
Sorry no landings in this one
I need a lot landing practice first as they are so fast I overshot the runway many times but eventually will get it down.
I did do one TSR2 landing but skidded into the runway divider. So a little special effects and editing was my solution for now. |
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TSR2 flies from RAF Station Boscombe Down to RAF Warton Commanded by Group Captain Stirling Gathering-Nomoss and Wing Commander Tim Ratherbegood,
with EE Lightning supersonic chase plane Commanded by Wing Commander John "Portsred" Featherwingham and Flt Lt,Emma Starboard-Wrightgreen
on a Top Secret Evaluation Flight Mission.
Upon landing both crews board an Aerospatial RAF Squirrel flown by Flt Sgt Jim " Nutty" Oakham to attend a Super hush hush Emergency Technical Briefing and then flown back and transported on a Stalwart to High Tea at RAF Warton Executive Dining hall with the Top Brass.
The TSR2 " Looking Good and Good Looking"!!! sits forlornly on the Ramp hoping to get a second chance from the men in pin striped suits.and bowler hats. TEE ESS R2 An aircraft that looks as futuristic today as it did 40+ years ago. |
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Well, after a long time, I decided to make a new video...this time about the BAC Tsr.2, a great plane that never entered in service.
Inspired on a real Tsr.2 video available on youtube, from sonicbomb ;)
Lo que fué y lo que pudo llegar a ser.
Pues un nuevo vídeo tras mucho tiempo sin hacer uno jeje...sobre el Tsr.2 un gran avión que nunca entró en servicio.
Un saludo a los miembros de escuadrón 69, como siempre!!
Música: Michael Andrews Feat Gary Jules - "Mad World"
"Command & Conquer Generals" Main Theme
Y Stratotovarius, "Infinity". |
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The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name Fencer) was the Soviet Union's most advanced all-weather interdiction and attack aircraft in the 1970s and 1980s.The Su-24 emerged from an early 1960s specification for a new attack bomber to replace the Ilyushin Il-28 and Yakovlev Yak-28. The specification, issued in 1964, called for an all-weather aircraft capable of supersonic speed at low level, with a very high standard of navigational and bombing accuracy. Furthermore, Soviet Frontial Aviation commanders were well aware that their existing combat aircraft suffered a tactically crippling combination of long take-off distance and short range. As a result the specification demanded excellent short-field performance.Sukhoi, like rival Mikoyan-Gurevich (which was more or less simultaneously developing an air combat fighter aircraft that was to become the MiG-23), initially considered the possibility of lift jets to reduce take-off distance. Their first prototype, the T-6-1, which first flew in 1967, had a delta wing with lift engines in the fuselage, similar to the T-58VD 'Flagon-B', but this proved to have disastrously poor handling. A modified version, the T-6-2, had no lift jets, but down turned wingtips and slotted flaps. This bore a strong resemblance to the British BAC TSR.2. While the T-6-2 proved more workable, its low wing loading gave it a punishing low-level ride.
A better solution was variable geometry, also being applied to the roughly contemporary Sukhoi Su-17 and Mikoyan-Gurevich 23-11. The second Sukhoi prototype was fitted with a variable wing, redesignated T-6-2IG. This first flew in 1970, and proved to be successful enough to merit production, initially under a cover designation of Su-15M (this designation, mistranslated by Western analysts, led the aircraft to be incorrectly identified as Su-19 until 1981).The production Su-24 (NATO reporting name 'Fencer-A') first flew in December 1971 entered service in 1974. It was not clearly photographed by NATO intelligence until a regiment was deployed to East Germany five years later, and the apparent capability of the 'Fencer' led to considerable panic among Western analysts, similar to that surrounding the MiG-25 'Foxbat.' As the most sophisticated combat aircraft in Soviet service to date, the Su-24 experienced teething problems, but proved to be popular with its crews. Although known as 'Fencer' in the west, Russian crews have nicknamed it Chemodan (чемодан, suitcase) because of its load-carrying ability and versatility.
The Su-24 evolved through several early variations, each earning separate NATO reporting names (although all were apparently designated the same in Soviet service). Development of a substantially upgraded version, the Su-24M (NATO reporting name 'Fencer-D'), began as the original aircraft was entering service, entering production in 1978. The Su-24M finally entered service in 1983. Two specialized versions, the Su-24MR ('Fencer-E') reconnaissance variant and the Su-24MP ('Fencer-F') ELINT gatherer, were developed from the Su-24M.An export version of the Su-24M, the Su-24MK (K for kommercheskiy, commercial), has been sold to several foreign customers. Ten were sold to Algeria, 15 to Libya, and 12 to Syria. A total of 32-33 Su-24MKs were sold to the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force and to Iraq, but sources differ on the specific numbers. Russian sources claim that nine were sold to Iran and 24 to Iraq, all of which are now operated by Iran. Iran claims it purchased 14 and gained 16-18 ex-Iraqi aircraft that fled Iraq to escape destruction in the 1991 Gulf War.The Soviets used some Su-24s in Afghanistan in 1984, and the 'Fencer' saw combat service again in the Chechen conflicts of the 1990s. Its bombing accuracy in the latter conflict has been criticized, because while the Su-24 apparently performed within its original design parameters, there were large numbers of civilian casualties and collateral damage.
About 1,200 Su-24s were produced. Substantial numbers of Ex-Soviet Su-24s remain in service with Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Roughly 577 are currently operational with Russian forces, split 447 with the Russian Air Force and 130 with the Russian Navy.
Although a formidable warplane in its day (albeit not quite as much so as initially believed by the West), the 'Fencer' is likely to be replaced by the Su-27IB/Su-32FN/Su-34 or other more advanced aircraft as Russian finances permit. |
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Some of the test flights of TSR 2, showing that even the best can get it right and wrong |
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Lord Healey, who was minister for defense says he didn't order this, if not then who did? As minister he is in charge and is responsible for the actions of people under him. I find it hard to believe someone lower down the defence ministry would order this act of vandalism without autherisation. So the question open to debate is who dunnit? |
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FLORIDA
Qantas B707
BAC TSR2
ECLIPSE
Grumman Goose UH1 Corona Plane
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The final tragic end for this sorry chapter in British aviation. |
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Newsreel footage of the maiden flight of TSR 2. |
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TSR-2 at RAF Cosford. The ultimate 1960's superjet. This aircraft never flew. On the day of it's first flight, the TSR-2 project was cancelled by a short sighted government. The pilots begged to fly the aircraft just once in the afternoon but the goverment refused, insisting she be scrapped along with all photo's jigs and the prototype (XR219 which did fly). This one was saved however, by far sighted individuals but the goverment insisted that all her wiring looms were cut ensuring she never ever flew. Absolutely criminal. Todays Tornado is the poor mans TSR-2. This aircraft was so way ahead of it's time that it looks futuristic even today. Inside, it is even a greater marvel of the time. Cancelled at the behest of the Americans because this was better than the General Dynamics F-111 and helped along to it's doom by apathetic, spineless and sycophantic British MP's, one of whom (who shall remain nameless as he is'nt dead yet!) who I am convinced was a Soviet agent. A sad end to Britain's world beating aviation industry. |
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Aircraft testing at the airfield started when the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) moved from RAF Martlesham Heath in August 1939, as World War II hostilities commenced, when the airfield was known as RAF Boscombe Down.[1]
The site has witnessed many significant developments in the British aviation industry, including trials of many aircraft flown by the British armed forces since the Second World War, such as the first flights of the English Electric P 1, forerunner of the Lightning, and the BAC TSR.2. It was also formerly home to the School of Aviation Medicine.
In 1992 the site was renamed the Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment when experimental work moved to the Defence Research Agency. Responsibility for the site passed from the MoD Procurement Executive to the Defence Test and Evaluation Organisation (DTEO) in 1993, and subsequently to the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 1995.
Following the creation of QinetiQ in 2001, a 25 year Long Term Partnering Agreement (LTPA) was established with the MOD. Boscombe Down remains a government airfield but operated by QinetiQ on behalf of the MOD. The Joint Test and Evaluation Group was established under the control of RAF Air Command and together with QinetiQ forms the Aircraft Test and Evaluation Centre (ATEC). This unique partnership is charged with the test and evaluation of future and in-service military aircraft. The military personnel of the JTEG play a central role in the test and evaluation process alongside their QinetiQ colleagues.
[edit] Today
The site has two runways, one of 3.2 km in length and the second 1.9 km. It is home to Rotary Wing Test Squadron, Fast Jet Test Squadron, Heavy Aircraft Test Squadron, The Empire Test Pilots' School, Handling Squadron and is also currently home to the Southampton University Air Squadron [1].
Boscombe Down has been associated with rumours concerning U.S. black projects. One notable incident is reported to have occurred there in 1994, although evidence is patchy and unreliable.
In October 2007 it was announced that RAF Boscombe Down will become a quick reaction alert airbase from early 2008, offering around the clock fighter coverage for the South and South West of UK airspace.[2] Contrary to media reports QRA aircraft will only be based at Boscombe Down if and when a specific threat to the region is deemed to exist. |
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Footage of TSR2 first flight, with the undercarriage down, this proved to be very problematic in later flights. Thanks to DD Video for this old VHS tape. |
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Black and white footage of TSR 2. |
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