Did The Olympus Engine Sabotage Britain’s Ultimate Strike Jet? — BAC TSR2

#fastestjet #aviationhistory #militaryhistory #coldwaraviation #tsr2 #blackburnbuccaneer #panaviatornado This is Part 3 of the TSR-2 story, and this one is all about the engine. For the first 72 hours this video is ad-free, so if you’ve caught it early, enjoy it without the interruptions. TSR2 PART 1:    • Anatomy of a Dream: When Britain Still Bel...   TSR2 PART 2:    • AD FREE | Five Kilobytes to Armageddon - B...   Links to purchase Damien Burkes' book - "TSR2 - Britain's Lost Bomber" https://www.crowood.com/book/tsr2-bri... - Crowood Press https://amoz.onl/6Jq - Amazon (These are NOT affiliate links) In 1959, the Government told the men building TSR-2 which engine they were getting, and it wasn’t the one they’d asked for. Rolls-Royce’s Medway was the designers’ choice. The Ministry wanted the Bristol Olympus, the engine already powering the Vulcan, and it wanted it as much for the future of the British engine industry as for the aircraft. What followed was one of the hardest engineering jobs Britain had ever attempted: taking a bomber engine built to cruise high and steady and turning it into one that could run at twice the speed of sound for forty-five minutes, then survive the throttles being slammed about at two hundred feet. It didn’t go quietly. Turbine discs flew out of engines and through test houses. A Vulcan testbed was burned to the ground at Filton. Between December 1962 and July 1964 alone, there were fourteen major failures, and the development bill went from eight million pounds to forty-six million. Part 4, the final part, picks up on the morning of 27 September 1964, with Roland Beamont and Don Bowen strapped into XR219 at Boscombe Down. It covers the first flight and the test flying that followed, the political fight over the aircraft’s future, the cancellation, the destruction of the airframes and jigs, and the F-111 disaster that followed. ============ CONTENTS ============ 00:01:11 - Chapter 10: BAC TSR2: The Gamble 00:27:52 - Chapter 11: BAC TSR2: Bristols Impossible 00:50:56 - Chapter 12: BAC TSR2: Fire 01:07:10 - Chapter 13: BAC TSR2: Engine Meets Airframe 01:21:08 - Chapter 14: BAC TSR2: Cleared, Just ========================= Further Reading & Sources ========================= Bristol Siddeley Olympus brochure (c.1962) T.S.R.2 Crew’s Notes (BAC, 1965) Alan Baxter, Olympus: The First Forty Years (Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust) Damien Burke — TSR2: Britain’s Lost Bomber Andrew Brookes — TSR2: Britain’s Lost Cold War Strike Jet (X-Planes series) Roland Beamont — Testing Years (1980) Roland Beamont — The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge (2001) Harlan Elkins — VERDAN (1973) Stephen Hastings — The Murder of TSR-2 Denis Healey — The Time of My Life (2006) Sir Stanley Hooker — Not Much of an Engineer A.F.C. Hunter — TSR 2 with Hindsight (RAF Historical Society paper) Frank Barnett Jones — TSR-2 Simon Lavington — Early British Computers (1980) Tim McLelland — TSR2 Marshall William McMurran — Achieving Accuracy: A Legacy of Computers and Missiles (2008) Mike Tooley — Aircraft Digital Electronic and Computer Systems: Principles, Operation and Maintenance (2007) Michael R. Williams — A History of Computing Technology (1997) Derek Wood — Project Cancelled Philip Ziegler — Mountbatten: The Official Biography 📺 Video contains brief, transformed clips All footage is used under Fair Use for the purpose of commentary, storytelling, and historical reference. No audio is used, and all clips are visually transformed. No copyright infringement intended. Original footage and recreated scenes may not be 100% accurate to the event being described but has been used for dramatic effect. This is because there may not have been any original footage of a particular event available, or copyright prevents us from showing it. Our aim is to be as historically true as we can be given the materials available. “NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 106 AND 106A, THE FAIR USE OF A COPYRIGHTED WORK, INCLUDING SUCH USE BY REPRODUCTION IN COPIES OR PHONORECORDS OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS SPECIFIED BY THAT SECTION, FOR PURPOSES SUCH AS CRITICISM, COMMENT, NEWS REPORTING, TEACHING (INCLUDING MULTIPLE COPIES FOR CLASSROOM USE), SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH, IS NOT AN INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.” THIS VIDEO AND OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL IN GENERAL MAY CONTAIN CERTAIN COPYRIGHTED WORKS THAT WERE NOT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED TO BE USED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S), BUT WHICH WE BELIEVE IN GOOD FAITH ARE PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND THE FAIR USE DOCTRINE FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE REASONS NOTED ABOVE. IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC CONCERNS ABOUT THIS VIDEO OR OUR POSITION ON THE FAIR USE DEFENSE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT plasticapemedia@gmail.com SO WE CAN DISCUSS AMICABLY Hello, what you doing all the way down here. Remember to hit the like button, leave a comment and subscribe.