Nearly fifty years have passed but outrage, anger and disbelief still continue to pour out in volume on UK aviation forums to this day over the controversial scrapping of the TSR2. Reports of the day indicated that the completed aircraft were to be destroyed on the test range at Shoeburyness. Later reports from Parliament indicated that five aircraft survived, one at Cranfield and four others kept as instructional airframes. However, the recent discovery of an original and complete, pristine sero-hour Bristol Siddeley Olympus 320 22R TSR2 engine, squirreled away in a barn on a farm for nearly fifty years, has piqued curiosity: could there be more TSR2 evidence in garages, sheds and barns awaiting discovery? More so, what if, according to common myths, a complete and intact airframe existed, such as XR221? Using the journalistic methods from his Transatlantic Betrayal, author Andrew Porter will investigate the TSR2 programme and the fates of the individual aircraft in an attempt to solve the mystery surrounding TSR2 XR221
- ISBN10 1445622866
- ISBN13 9781445622866
- Publish Date 28 December 2015
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 2 February 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Amberley Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English