"with the final system likely over budget and behind schedule."
Not that these aren't possibilities, but I'd be expecting something technically audacious, which ends up being wildly over-ambitious and ends up being cancelled, with any leftover hardware ending up in a museum somewhere.
See also: Black Arrow, TSR-2, Rotodyne, HOTOL etc. etc.
Still, at least Britain's aerospace museums will be great.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
