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RAeS Conference - The Fall of the RAF's Eagle - RAF Museum
On 13 May at RAF Museum’s Midlands site, this Royal Aeronautical Society conference will review and assess the TSR2 in depth.
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RAeS Conference – The Fall of the RAF’s Eagle
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13 May 2023
The TSR2 Nuclear Bomber: The Lessons of Specification Overreach and Political Imperatives
On Saturday 13 May 2023 at RAF Museum’s Midlands site, this conference will review and assess the TSR2 in depth. It will present the requirement and the resulting programme in the context of the geo-political, military, political and industrial circumstances.About the Conference
The TSR2 nuclear strike aircraft was the last major military aircraft programme undertaken by the British aircraft industry. Its long and costly development culminated in its termination in 1965. That cancellation remains controversial to this day and the aircraft and its related programme are frequent subjects in the specialist aviation press. This conference will examine in depth and detail all aspects of the aircraft and the programme: the political requirement for airborne nuclear strike, the RAF’s requirements, the specification design drivers, the various design concepts proposed, the design concept selected in comparison with ‘off-the-shelf’ overseas alternatives, the political and industrial aspects of the programme, the circumstances of and reasons for its cancellation, and the implications of the cancellation. The conference findings will offer lessons for major military procurement programmes of the present day and the future. As such, the event will be of interest in historical terms and also with regard to contemporary endeavours.Speaker Line-up
- Clive Richards – The Path to GOR339
- Tony Butler – From Paper to Hardware
- Professor Keith Hayward – TSR-2: Building the Industrial Coalition
- Paul Stoddart – Off-the-Shelf’ Options
- Clive Richards – A ‘melancholy spectacle’: the downfall of the TSR-2, 1957-1965
- Samuel Hollins – Empty skies: British Procurement Dilemmas and Opportunities
- Ben Goodlad – TSR2: What could have been?
- Dr Mike Pryce – TSR-2: A Warning for Tempest?