In article , M. H.
Greaves writes
Yes i absolutely agree!
Labour gov't wanted the aircraft ind' to build aircraft that were already
established, but did not want the industry to "go breaching the realms of
science". At least thats what Jenkins says on the video, really labour has
done irreversible damage to britians aircraft industry, we no longer make
them here on our own, they have to be in collaboration with another nation,
look at the tornado for example.
All of the uk's people went to USA after the TSR 2 fiasco.
Thanks for the link
regards, mark.

"Alan Dicey" wrote in message
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A good TSR-2 potted history site can be found on Damien Burke's "Thunder
and Lightnings" site:

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...2/history.html

I think that TSR-2 was cancelled by an aircraft-industry-hating Labour
government, who really wanted to cancel Concorde, but discovered that
the penalty clauses were too punative. Though they repeatedly denied
it, I'm convinced that Jenkins and Healey were the prime movers. The
spite and malice attending the cancellation still make me angry (jigs
and tooling destroyed, documentation and even photographs burned). This
all points to the political nature of the cancellation. They might as
well have sown the Warton airfield with salt.




There were paeans of praise for Roy Jenkins when he died, but all I
could think of was "You were one of the *******s who killed the most
advanced aircraft of its day". As Mark says, Jenkins, Healey and all
couldn't understand why the industry had to build something new instead
of existing designs. The fundamental problem was that the government of
the time was made up of academics who mostly had no conception of the
real world of industry. What good is a degree in English Literature or
the Classics when you have to decide on the merits of a supersonic
bomber?

The present lot are just as bad - lawyers and socialist academics - the
only one who has ever worn a uniform is Fatty "Two Jags" Prescott, and
that was as a ship's steward in the Merchant Navy.

There appears to be a snobbish mindset at the heart of British society
that considers anything to do with engineering to be dirty and
undignified, and manufacturing to be vulgar. The City is interested only
in short-term profit, and doesn't seem capable of investing in the
creativity and skill of inventors and engineers in the UK.

\rant
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Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!