The BAC TSR-2 – The Most Outstanding Military Aircraft to Never Serve

Support Dark Skies and get NordVPN for up to 70% off 1 month free. Use on up to 6 devices at once! Click here - and use the offer code “darkskies“. It has been called the most outstanding military aircraft never flown. In many ways, the British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 bomber was ahead of its time. Plans called for it to serve as a supersonic nuclear strike option capable of flying at an altitude of 200-feet to penetrate deep into enemy airspace. Test pilots claimed the TSR-2’s flight characteristics were outstanding, and a Royal Air Force evaluation of the program suggested that there was no doubt that it could meet all of its mission goals. Yet, after its first flights in 1964, the program was suddenly canceled only a year later. Amid rumors of a conspiracy, all of the working prototypes were destroyed...