Hot Metal - TSR.2 by Ivan Berryman. (P) WAR30 The submarine HMS Thunderbolt moves

The submarine HMS Thunderbolt moves away from the depot ship Montcalm

Shown here is one such aircraft

When Galland made the much quoted comment about the Spitfires to Göring he was unbelievably vexed at the lack of understanding and stubbornness with which the command gave us orders we could not execute and so made the comment as a retort to Göring

Unbelievably he survived and apart from bruising his only injury was a gashed head from the stray shell

Hot Metal - TSR.2 by Ivan Berryman. (P) WAR30 The submarine HMS Thunderbolt movesDHM6337P. Hot Metal TSR. 2 by Ivan Berryman. Without doubt the most advanced and forward thinking design for an attack and reconnaissance aircraft in its day, the BAC TSR. 2 was to fall victim to the shortsightedness of a misguided Labour government whose entrenched position in the mid 1960s dealt a terrible blow to the British aircraft industry a blow from which it never fully recovered. Whilst the few TSR. 2 airframes that had been constructed