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Re: The Fifties Child

The Swordfish was TSR II, not TSR-2.

My late uncle flew in the back seat of Stringbags at the end of WWII. He was still fascinated by planes when I knew him in the 60s and 70s, when his house was decorated with model aircraft strung from the ceiling. One model was of his take on the TSR-2 - a Swordfish fitted with a jet engine as a cheap'n'cheerful alternative to the wonder machine then threatened with cancellation by the Wilson government. He submitted a drawing of his imaginary plane to one of the aeronautical mags which apparently published it. It sounds like he was way ahead of his time.

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