TSR2

[Wolfie]

hurricane was down on power and speed, bf was better in dive and climb but spitfire was the best for an all round point of view.




scooter or cbr600rr or blackbird in a race on the track???

 

[Wolfie]

some garble by a bloke caled lumpy or something like that not very important or interesting sorry skipped over that post.

 

[Aidey]

Dont disagree with either of you. There are very few absolutes, only different circumstances, if that makes any sense. Sorry, bought a couple of bottles of Ricard back with me from France and working my way steadily through them right now.

 

[Wolfie]

nah poor excuse, spitfire was better lumpy was wrong!!!!!!

 

[ianrobbo1]

Hurricane actually accounted for a much larger part of the air force during the B o B and accounted for more "kills" in the same period, :dunno:
that's the extent of my WW2 plane knowledge!! :dunno:

 

[Centaur]

Wasn't it

Spitfire was for the toffs and the Hurry was for t'workin class so that's why the Spitfire gets all the glory. %$fan

 

[Centaur]

Then why

if the Spitfire was the better performer did they so many Hurricanes? :dunno:

 

[Murt]

Anyway.

Back to the origional thread...

My mates ( yes I do have one) dad was on the TSR2 project in Worton, Lancs.
He was one of the managers that argued that the yanks should not be given the 'secret' info and tour of the plants.
When they got wind of the closedown ( after the septics forced the Government of the day to do it ) he 'forgot' to take some of his notes and journals to work with him.

He still has them in his dads papers.

Very interesting indeed, some of the ideas that didnt make it onto the project were like startrek stuff !

The plane would have been the Eurofighter of the 70's, 80's and onwards..
Murt

 

[eyebrows]

back to TSR2

as a very small boy, I saw the TSR2 actually fly, at an air display at Coltishal (sp?) in the very early '60s. I also recall that the following year, the air display programme had on its cover a picture of a very nice young lady wearing an outfit made entirely from the de-commisioned components of aforementioned TSR2.
Also remember seeing Douglas Bader and Princess Margaret arriving at RAF Horsham St Faith (now Norwich airport), in a Beverly aircraft painted dayglo orange, got the cine film somewhere, with DB and maggie waving at us, the only people there as it was at the end of our road!

Anyway............