Mike Flynn Kendal Rotary Club
Mike Flynn, who gave us the story of the ill-fated TSR2 project.
The speaker at the meeting of Kendal Rotary Club on 31st October was one of their own members, Mike Flynn, who gave us the story of the ill-fated TSR2 project. As an ex RAF fighter pilot himself, Mike had an intimate knowledge of the plane and the reasons for its downfall. The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation, for the Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The TSR-2 was the victim of ever-rising costs and inter-service squabbling over Britain's future defence needs, which together led to the controversial decision in 1965 to scrap the programme.
