British Aircraft Corporation TSR2
Profile Drawings
TSR2 XR219, British Aircraft Corporation, A&AEE Boscombe Down, 1964; author
TSR2 XR220, British Aircraft Corporation, A&AEE Boscombe Down, 1965; author
T.2 XS664, 237 OCU, RAF Coningsby, 1968; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 trainer had gone into service?
GR.1 XS984, 41 Squadron, RAF Marham, 1970; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service?
GR.1 XR228, 617 Squadron, RAF Tengah, 1971; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service?
GR.1 XS977, 16 Squadron, RAF Akrotiri, 1972; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service?
GR.1 XR231, XV Squadron, RAF Laarbruch, 1974; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service?
GR.51 4357, Marinefliegergeschwader 1, Schleswig-Jagel, 1977; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service and the Germans had bought some?
GR.51 IR871, 5 Squadron Indian Air Force, Agra, 1980; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service and the Indians had bought some?
GR.1 XS990, 31 Squadron, RAF Brüggen, 1983; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service?
GR.53 75-106, 75 Squadron Royal Saudi Air Force, Dhahran, 1984; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service and the Saudis had bought some?
GR.3 XR247 'Flying Shark', 617 Squadron, Tabuk, 1991; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service and fought in the Gulf War?
GR.3 XR251, 6 Squadron, RAF Marham, 1998; author
What-if? ...the TSR2 had gone into service... 30 years of service / retirement scheme
TSR2 XR222, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, 2009; author
Visitor Comments
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Peter From Hampshire from England
Posted at 10:12pm on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
As a first year apprentice at RAE Farnborough, we were take to Weybridge to se their machine shop. After watching a main wing spa from a VC10 being machined, a couple of us 'got lost' and found ourselves peering through a window at the cancelled TSR-2, a pile of broken and rusted dies were in the corner. Didn't see much more as we were 'escorted' back to our group by their security police. My favorite fighter is the Lightning but the TSR-2 could outrun a lighting with one Olympus afterburning with the light... read more »read more »
Michael S from USA
Posted at 8:11pm on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
I would like to see a TSR2 in USAF colours!
David Nevans from Scotland
Posted at 3:32am on Saturday, October 16th, 2010
The RAF Historical Society did a splendid seminar on the TSR2
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Ted Hamshaw from sheffield
Posted at 4:58pm on Friday, October 8th, 2010
i remember seeing some parts of aTSR2 in a scrapyard in sheffield some years ago-agreat shame.it truly was a beautiful aircraft!
Martin Millson from rugeley
Posted at 8:53pm on Thursday, October 7th, 2010
recently saw it at cosford though not the first time, my wife got fed with my fixation and photographing of the white beauty. i bought a wooden sculpture of 1 from a model shop in york 6 years ago, cost £150 and it has pride of place above the fireplace. i was born in 66,i wouldve loved to see it fly. my 4 yr old son loves it too and the lightning. its a damn shame that it was part of a brilliant industry that was screwed up by the then labour government, they never got it right then and history keeps... read more »read more »
Gareth Martin from Northern Ireland
Posted at 9:56pm on Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Great article and very poignant to see these profiles and think about what might have been! Had any thought been given as to what the TSR.2 would have been called in service? Tornado perhaps?
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Steve Warner from Hampshire
Posted at 11:31pm on Monday, June 7th, 2010
Aimed mainly at "Jack Rogerson from Middlesex" - my father, Neil Warner, who sadly recently passed away, was also at Weybridge during the TSR2 project and not too long ago said that he worked on the aircraft. Just wondering if you remember the name....?
Neil Wallace from Ashford Kent
Posted at 11:26am on Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Thanks for rembering a quite brilliant aircraft. I am deeply disapointed that our early government destroyed such a thing of beauty, also deprived me the chance of being TSR2 ground crew instead of the Canberra PR9's I worked on at Wyton. Keep up the great work in her memory. She still brings a tear to my eye whenever I see images of her in the air.
Ron Fellows from Preston, Lancashire
Posted at 10:07am on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Thanks for keeping the memory of such a wonderful aircraft alive. I missed seeing the TSR2 flying - I moved to Lancashire much later - but having seen the gestation of the Tornado and Typhoon at BAe Warton, I can imagine what it would have been like seeing TSR2s flitting about local skies. Marvellous :-)
Ron Van Der Mark from The Netherlands
Posted at 4:49pm on Saturday, April 24th, 2010
From my 8th I am a airplane enthousiast and the amongst the most beautiful aircraft with sleek clean lines is certainly the TSR2. Like the Valkery XB70 and the Concorde. Brilliant white, like a virgin and never dropped bombs. Maybe it sounds stupid but such aircraft will live forever.