TSR.2 Memories Project

Collecting recollections of an icon

TSR.2 – introducing the Memories

By clicking on the link below, you will be taken to the TSR.2 Memories Index page

Here you will find a list of each Memory I have received, and you simply click on the reference number to see the Memory in pdf format.

It is important to remember that all these Memories actually happened more than 45 years ago. Most of the contributors are now in their 80s and even 90s, and memories do fade. While I have edited occassionally where there has obviously been a memory slippage, I have left as much in as piossible, and there will be doubtless points which are not stirctly true and indeed some stories conflct with accepted fact or with each other, but this project is about memories, not hard facts! These memories shoud not be taken, therefore, as Gospel as to what truly happeend, but an indication of the events, and the type of thing that has stuck in minds for all this time.

The Copyright for this site remains with me, Steve Broadbent, and each individual memory is the Copyright and in the ownership of the contributor. By clicking on the link below to go to the Index you agree to this statement, and agree not to copy any Memory for any reason whatsoever that might breach the letter or spirit of Copyright and Intellectual Property Ownership.

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LATEST ADDITIONS

July 2010 - a collection of 12 photos, some of which I had not seen before, submitted by one of the daughters of Sandy Burns, a world-renown aerodynamicist at Warton. See File 505 in the Photo Album section.

October 2010 - an account of his work as an apprentice on TSR.2 at BAC's Strand Road works by Fred Champion, who finally retired fromm BAe at the end of 2000.

January 2011 - another (?) Warton Open Day, 11 June 1966, photo, from Graham Dives. See File 551 in the Photo Album section for a photo of XR219, and 507 for the day's programme. Also from Graham Dives, the orignal 'Air Pictorial' cover from February 1965 illustrating the destruction of the three defebce projects (Photo Album File 506). Was there also an Open Day in summer 1965 where TSR.2 XR219 was on view in between a Lightning and a Canberra, or just this one?