TSR.2 test flight

[Garry Russell]

I've not seen this particular film myself before :think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdJxjvQZW4

Garry

[Quixoticish]

It's from this if memory serves:

http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/Classic_British_J ... D__5908722

[Chris558]

Indeed it is. I have it myself.

[Garry Russell]

Thanks Chris's

It did seem a part of something and of course it cuts off just as I'm getting in to it.

What's always clear with the TSR.2, is, after all these years the passion that seems to still be there.

The people involed still talk with excitement and pleasure of involvement even after 45 years as if they had done it this morning.

Garry

[Vulcan_to_the_Sky!]

That was a pretty interesting video, thanks for the link,

I know quite a few people who work at BAe Warton, including someone who worked there during the TSR 2 Period, will tell him to have a look out for the video, Im pretty sure he'd be quite interested in it as he has a model of the TSR 2 in his dining room.

Does anyone know what the chase aircraft was?, looked a bit like a JP to me, but I could be wrong.

[TSR2]

There were a few different chase aircraft during TSR-2 development. There was a Canberra, a Lightning and I'm pretty sure the one your talking about in the vid was the meatbox. A JP wouldn't have been able to get close enough. ;-)

[Garry Russell]

I like the bit where he out ran the Lightning with only one afterburner and the Lightning had both on.

Garry

[Chris558]

There was consideration of resurrecting it in the ' 70s as an updated version, instead of having the Tornado. I'm sure PANAVIA could have done it....? :think:

[Vulcan_to_the_Sky!]

STUPID

I realised what I'd written couldn't be right, as you rightly said the JP would'nt have been able to keep up about 10 minutes later when I was in the car, but by then it was too late. The Lightning makes sense, and the Guy I know who was at Warton at that time confirmed it.