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by arethuza 4186 days ago
You got us to cancel the lovely TSR-2 in favour of a modified F-111 version that was itself cancelled....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

Eventually we ended up with a classic Euro-compromise in the form of the MRCA/Tornado - a swing winged jack of all trades.
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gaius 4186 days ago
Not the first time we've fallen for that American scam, you'd think we'd have learnt http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow#Cancellation

Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however, this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow

So much for the "special relationship" eh?

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