I served with the RAF during the period 1966/69. Mainly based at Wyton, but frequently sent on attachment troughout the UK. One of my most pleasing attachments was at RAE Bedfordshire at the time testing of the VTOL aircraft,
now known as the Harrier or jump jet. I shudder to think what kind of aircraft the RAF would be flying to-day should the Harrier have had the same fate as the (ahead of it's time) TSR2.The general feeling that it was American pressure rather than economic reasons that led to the scrapping of this aircraft. Pity the poloticans of the time did not have as much BACKBONE AND FIGHT as TSR2 would have had.
SAC..Paul Whitehead.
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