TSR2: Britain's Lost Cold War Strike Aircraft

TSR.2 is a detailed yet eminently readable photographic history of the development of the TSR-2, with photographs drawn from the BAE Systems Heritage archive at Warton. It concentrates on the aircraft development rather than the political background of the story. The author has researched original sources from the BAE archives at Warton Heritage Group, and uses a compelling array of unpublished photographs and material to illustrate the story. This new book will have a wide appeal and will revive the debate about this beautiful but ill-fated aircraft. Although various proposals, under the designation OR (Operational Requirement) 343, were considered as a replacement of the existing Canberra bomber, in 1959 the go-ahead was given to the British Aircraft Corporation submission, named the TSR.2. This stood for Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance 2. The fate of the TSR.2 was seen by some as a metaphor for the decline of Britain itself.