Found this on TSR2 , discuss?
What an aircraft - scuppered by a crap Labour government of course who had to be Kow-towing to the Americans to buy their F-111 - which of course we didn't buy in the end as well.
The TSR2 also had blown flaps for STOL performance.
BTW you don't see many Mach 2+ supersonic aircraft bounce 6 feet of the runway or take off and land in a muddy field. Try that in a F15 and it would have pancaked into the runway and an SR71 would have snapped in two.
All valid points, the turning circle was roughly the same as the a F104, due to the highly loaded low gust wing. The ex-Fleet Air/Empire Test pilot was completely wrong about not being good as low level though as it was the first aircraft that could fly supersonic @ 200 feet with no hands on the stick - unlike the F15E even today. The Bucc couldn't supercruise at Mach 2+ @ 60kft either making it almost impossible for fighter then and now to intercept as demonstated by the Concorde trails in 85.
No wonder the Americans didn't want the TSR2 to be sold to other nations as the replacement for their Canberras, which even the Americans had purchased 10 years before as the B-57. Even today the 'Stealthy' TSR2 low level Tactical Strike attack bomber and high altitude Mach 2 supercruise Recon aircraft would classed as outstanding.
We could go on.
No doubt i will be shot down.
However, not my opinions and i have no expertise in this area.