COMMENTS

TSR.2 A Pictorial History

"As a visual documentary this work stands alone and to my knowledge nothing else has this wealth of photographs, it is a truly amazing piece of work with numerous reference possibilities.
From a modellers perspective I could use this time and again without having to go to the extremes of detailing every millimetre of a kit, there is enough information here to make a very respectable model without having to wade through stacks of magazines for a tenth of the information that this type of reference has on hand."
Ian Southwood
Aircraft Modeller International (Issue 10)

 

Thanks for the excellent TSR.2 CD-ROM
Talk about nostalgia, TSR.2 was the star chunk of my aircraft fitters apprenticeship, between September 1960 and September 1965. I was of course a "Vickers Man". Unfortunately the entire project was riddled with Vickers versus English Electric crap with very little, if at all, overall team spirit. For most of us on the inside, this had more influence on the government's decision than the costing issue.

Seeing the photographs brought back memories of being involved in building the centre fuse assembly jig, lofting the master profiles for the pilots canopy, the titanium fasteners, the thousands of shear pins and the continuing blunting of drill bits caused by the 2020 alloy used in the airframe. Yes, heady times.

One of the positive outcomes of the TSR.2 cancellation was that it released into the industry's computer systems world, a brilliant aircraft designer and engineering manager, Pat Hall. This man's foresight, drive, leadership and providing opportunity to very young people, made him the father of computerised manufacturing engineering and production control as we know it today.

I didn't mean to go on like this, must be getting old. Anyway thanks again.

Ian Skinner