TonyM
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Yep, a beautiful, versatile aircraft. They served in the RAF, various models of course, for over 50 years. NASA still flies a couple of the "big wing" high altitude WB-57 weather reconnaissance aircraft.
If you want to read how the USAF came to use a British designed bomber, research the Martin XB-51 story. That aircraft had a history somwwhat similar to the RAF's TSR.2. The B-57 was Martin's consolation prize.
Thanks Duke I sure will. A wee secret, I had a wing panel from a TSR-2 (my mother binned it as usual), I knew the locations of all the aircraft built which was a big secret then. A drawing of a TSR-2 appeared in an aviation magazine which I did and earned me a months wages and could have seen me in prison for doing it. It's been scanned and copied all over the internet, this is my original;