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BAC TSR2 for X-plane 8.15
An amazing plane by any standards, the British Aircraft Corporations’ TSR2 (Tactical Strike and Reconaisance) was initially designed and built as a replacement for the Canberra bomber.
Capable of over Mach 2.2 at high altitude the TSR2 had powerful Olympus 22R Mk 320 engines developing over 30,000 lbs thrust each, and a relatively small wing for a better ride at low level (300 feet!) where it was still capable of Mach 1.3. Derivatives of the engines made it into Concorde. While American designs were using swing wings (like the F-111) to give good low and high speed performance, the TSR2 utilised blown flaps, and these spanned its ‘entire’ width except for the turned down tips. With no ailerons, all pitch and roll control was by the all-moving slab tailplane, although it did incorporate small elevators for low speed use. The vertical tail was also a slab all-moving type, and as such the TSR2 was very similar to the RA-5 Vigilante. By coincidence, it also used a very capable autopilot derived from that of the Vigilante by Autonetics Verdan. With this the TSR2 could navigate without any external reference (ie radio beacons).
Based on the X-plane 6 version by Andrew Bright (http://www.x-plane.org/registry/2777.shtml), modified and brought up to X-plane 8.15 standards with permission. I’ve included transparent windows, cockpit figures (coutesy of Barry Leger), new weapons and revised cockpit of my own design based on low resolution photographs of the real thing. If any of you have high quality plans or figures, please send them to me.
In case you are wondering the TSR1 was the Canberra.