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Author : Damien Burke
Release Date : 15 January 2011
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
Genre : Transportation
Pages : 336
ISBN 13 : 184797211X

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More than forty years after its cancellation, the BAC TSR2 is still a controversial aircraft. Years ahead of its time, it was abruptly cancelled by a new government when flight testing had only just begun. This fascinating new book describes in detail the aircraft, its history and the events of its cancellation. Many unseen photographs and diagrams support the detailed text, which benefits from extensive research in the BAC archives and access to newly rediscovered material.

TSR2

Author : Damien Burke
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
Genre : Transportation
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File Size : 51,9 Mb
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More than forty years after its cancellation, the BAC TSR2 is still a controversial aircraft. Years ahead of its time, it was abruptly cancelled by a new government when flight testing had only just begun. This fascinating new book describes in detail the aircraft, its history and the events of ...

TSR2

Author : Andrew Brookes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre : History
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File Size : 55,6 Mb
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The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans. It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to cost overruns, overambitious requirements, and politics. Its scrapping ...

TSR2

Author : Tim McLelland
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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File Size : 51,5 Mb
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This is a welcome revised and enhanced second editionof this comprehensive, accurate and honest account of the TSR2 strike aircraft's fascinating story, tracing the project's development from its Cold War origins in the 1950's to its final cancellation in 1965. Aimed at aviation historians and those interested in the history of ...

TSR2 with Hindsight

Author : Alexander Freeland Cairns Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : BAC TSR 2 (Jet attack plane)
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File Size : 52,6 Mb
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Bac Tsr 2

Author : Paul Lucas
Publisher : Sam
Genre : Airplanes, Military
Total View : 1322 Views
File Size : 43,9 Mb
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This new series from the SAM Publications is a 'kit tie-in' directly linked to selected new releases from well-known manufacturers -- the first of which will be the enigmatic BAC TSR.2, to be released in 1/48 scale by Airfix. This title traces the counter-factual history of what would possibly have occurred ...

Vulcan 607

Author : Rowland White
Publisher : Random House
Genre : History
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File Size : 43,7 Mb
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It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. And fast. The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port ...

England and the Aeroplane

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Genre : Transportation
Total View : 5203 Views
File Size : 43,9 Mb
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The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War Machine The history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with myths - of 'the Few' and the Blitz, of boffins, flying machines, ...

Britain and the Bomb

Author : W. J. Nuttall
Publisher : Whittles
Genre : History
Total View : 494 Views
File Size : 54,6 Mb
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This is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country than is seen today. It was an era in which the country adjusted to decolonisation and a dangerous nuclear arms race close to home. The maturing Cold War engineers of the British aviation industry sought to outdo the ...