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Old 21-11-2010, 10:58   #73
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Re: the tories cant blame labour now

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates View Post
CS, did you criticise the Govt of the day when the TSR2 was scrapped. This was arguably the best aircraft of the time and for many years to come. They really did scrap it - even breaking up the finished aircraft (although I understand one example still exists), they even broke up the jigs and molds so that it would be too expensive to re-start the project - how many jobs were lost at BAe because of that decision?
quite interesting about the politics and division in them days as well BAC TSR-2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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