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This Part two of the TSR2 story. For those of you who may be wondering, yes, this video was up a few monthsa go, but I took it down as I was not 100% happy with it, so I made a few changes, new footage of the TSR2 XR220 from Cosford. I hope you enjoy it.

TSR2 PART 1: https://youtu.be/z7YyEVW1sow

Links to purchase Damien Burkes' book - "TSR2 - Britain's Lost Bomber"
https://www.crowood.com/book/tsr2-britains-lost-bomber/ - Crowood Press
https://amoz.onl/6Jq - Amazon

In 1964, Britain flew a supersonic strike aircraft that could have changed the course of Cold War aviation. A year later, the government cancelled it.

This is the story of the BAC TSR-2 — and it's one that's never been told properly.

Not as a nostalgic lament for a lost golden age.

Not as a simple tale of political betrayal.

And not as an engineering footnote buried under Cold War trivia.

The real story of TSR-2 is about test pilots, engineers, politicians, civil servants, and Treasury officials, all pulling in different directions while trying to build the most advanced military aircraft on earth.

In this series, we go deeper than anyone has before.

Part 1 We covered the origins: how a Cold War requirement became the most ambitious military aircraft programme Britain had ever attempted, and how the forced marriage of English Electric and Vickers nearly killed it before metal was ever cut.

TSR2 PART 1: https://youtu.be/z7YyEVW1sow

Part 2 This video, takes on the hardware, the avionics, the sensors, computers and engineers fighting to make TSR-2 actually work. Gyroscopes packed in dry ice. A computer that took seven seconds to think. A radar that couldn't tell hills from rain clouds.

Part 3: Will cover the Olympus engine that nearly broke the project, and the first flight that proved the aircraft could actually do what its designers promised, the cancellation, the destruction, the F-111 disaster that followed, and what Britain actually ended up with instead.
If you want to offer a hand in the next TSR2 Video, please contact me at: plasticapemedia@gmail.com

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CONTENTS
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00:02:18 - Chapter 5: BAC TSR2: The Impossible Task
00:17:48 - Chapter 6: BAC TSR2: The Navigation Problem
00:43:13 - Chapter 7: BAC TSR2: Verdan - The Box That Had To Think
01:08:29 - Chapter 8: BAC TSR2: The Human Limitation
01:26:10 - Chapter 9: BAC TSR2: British Grit

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Further Reading & Sources
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Damien Burke — TSR2: Britain’s Lost Bomber
Andrew Brookes — TSR2: Britain’s Lost Cold War Strike Jet (X-Planes series)
Roland Beamont — Testing Years (1980)
Roland Beamont — The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge (2001)
Harlan Elkins — VERDAN (1973)
Stephen Hastings — The Murder of TSR-2
Denis Healey — The Time of My Life (2006)
Sir Stanley Hooker — Not Much of an Engineer
A.F.C. Hunter — TSR 2 with Hindsight (RAF Historical

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