I was responsible for the last ever TSR2 in the Royal Air Force.
I was at RAF Henlow in 1974, doing my last tour of duty before leaving the RAF and was in charge of the airfield, which was grass and had a number of hangars dotted around it as airfields do.
It had been rumoured that there was a TSR2 in a hangar somewhere, but until I was told that it was my job to move it I thought the stories were scuttlebut.
The problem was that even with the engines and equipment removed, the high pressure tyres would have bogged down in the grass airfiled before we had travelled 50 yards.
So, we got 3 hovercraft lifting units, one under each undercarriage leg, lifted it off the ground and towed across the airfield behind a Land Rover to a waiting Queen Mary transporter. It's now at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford.
I flew Canberras in Cyprus in the early 60s, had spoken to the pilots testing it at Boscombe Down and was ready for the TSR2 conversion unit in 1966 when the project was cancelled.
I am doubly bitter about the cancellation of a superlative aircraft by Wilson's petty, vindictive Labour government.