The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 is a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

2022年4月24日 · XR220 was the second development batch airframe, and was earmarked for flutter testing with a backup purpose of weapons and store seperation trials. A careful examination of the wings finds some small circular panels marking the locations where stores pylons would have been attached, and there are fairings on each intake side that would have ...

By this time, XR219 had made the last ever TSR2 flight, on 31 March 1965. Following a unanimous Cabinet decision on 1 April, the TSR-2 project was publically cancelled by Harold Wilson’s Labour Government, the announcement coming in that day’s Budget Speech by Chancellor James Callaghan.

2025年1月17日 · Two TSR.2 airframes survived the scrapping, XR220 which is on display at the RAF Museum in Cosford, and a less complete example at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, number XR222.

Although never developed beyond the prototype stage, the British Aircraft Corporation TSR2 was one of the most exciting and controversial British combat aircraft designs of the 1960s. The cancellation of the project is a subject of great debate to this day.

Everything you need to know about XR220 (BAC TSR-2 C/N XO-2) including aircraft data, history and photos

2015年4月30日 · The TSR-2 tooling, jigs and many of the partially completed aircraft were all scrapped at Brooklands within six months of the cancellation. Two airframes eventually survived: the almost complete XR220 at the RAF Museum, Cosford near Wolverhampton, and the much less complete XR222 at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

2025年2月24日 · Two TSR.2 airframes survived the scrapping: XR220, which is on display at the RAF Museum Cosford, and a less complete example at the Imperial War Museum Duxford as XR222.

XR220 would never fly; the government, in the Budget Day announcement on the 6th of April 1965, announced that the TSR2 programme was to be terminated immediately.

2022年4月24日 · Two complete airframes, XR220 and XR222, survived and have both been restored to good static condition. All the other TSR2 airframes along with the only TSR2 to fly were eventually scrapped as mentioned in the history section.