<p>TSR-2 was designed for strike and reconnaissance and had the potential to be one of the finest combat aircraft of the period. Unfortunately the entire project was cancelled before it had a chance to prove itself. Only one aircraft ‘XR219’ flew, and was later used as a range target and scrapped. XR220 was the second TSR-2 built and was due to fly on the day the project was cancelled. Sadly a minor fault with a fuel pump had kept her grounded in the morning and by the afternoon the certificate for flight had already been withdrawn following the cancellation announcement. XR220 spent the rest of 1965 and 1966 in use for ground-based trails relating to the Rolls-Royce Olympus engines for Concorde. In 1967 she officially became a museum aircraft and was moved to RAF Henlow for storage. She moved to Cosford in 1975 and has been on display there ever since, currently in the ‘Test Flight’ hangar.
RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire, UK.
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9th June 2018
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/65001151@N03">Alan Wilson</a> from Peterborough, Cambs, UK
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/32111217567/">British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 ‘XR220’</a>