TSR2 Early Flights

Video Title :	TSR2 Early Flights
Description :	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.
Views :	11887
Rating :	4.72
Keywords, Tags :	TSR2 TSR-2 BAC Aircraft
Video Length :	1 : 51

Comments :

Denis Healey was the Minister of Defence in 1965, when TSR.2 was abandoned, under Harold Wilson;s Labour govornmant. He also cancelled a super sonic Harrier varient called P.1154 and a Hawker Siddely STOL transport. Healey was a COMPLETE dick head to say the bare minimum least.

I like to imagine it in full livery and squadron colours...the way it should have looked...completed and in service.

This would have been the livery colours. Britains NUCLEAR bomber fleet at this time was white with pale roundels and lettering. The cammo livery came in a little later, though given the delays etc it could have entered service in the later colours.

In addition to cancelling TSR2, the Labour government eliminated Bomber Command. This can be found on a YouTube video.

wonderful film of a marvelous aircraft first footage of TSR2 i've ever seen - better than photographs in books. thanks when this was cancelled we ordered the F1-11 didn`t recieve that either! shame to use this actual aircraft for target practice on maplin sands.

It looked right, it was right. Thanks for posting the video, from one of a generation who grew up with confused governments and insane decisions :0(

a broke nation-germans and japaneeze-the instigators and murderers of ww2,the merikans chose to restore-leaving the brits 2 pay back every penny wiv interest that took 50 yrs 2 repay!-some ally!and the yanks refused 2 bail us out again claiming we could not afford the tsr2 programme-they were right and we the uk got another expensive,extortional loan,and the loss of the worlds most advanced aero-idustry.

Hear, hear, couldn't agree more. The deferal of the repayment of this loan was used to influence the cancellation of the Suez invasion. I wonder if they will hand over the bases in the carribean when their time is up on Lend Lease?

Sadly we will never know for sure if she would of been as great as is said but I do know Test Pilot Roland Bee Beamont never missed a chance to slam the Goverment for her cancellation he mentions her in all his books regardless of the subject.A great Pilot he had absoloute faith in the TSR2 Eagle so I guess she would of been great. Thanks for the video.