| The RAF we have today is a pale shadow of what was envisaged during the 1950's and 60's. Due to political mismanagement, shortsightedness, petty rivalries and misguided thinking, the British aircraft industry, which, until that point had been the most innovative and radical in the world, was dismantled and cast into the trash-can of history, and with it, the best aerospace designers, many world-class companies, thousands of highly skilled workers, and with it, the RAF.
How different it would have been, if only...
| The Avro 730
Mach 2+ long range strategic nuclear strike aircraft
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| The BAC TSR2
The long-lamented Tactical Stike and Reconnaisance aircraft - probably the finest aircraft in the world at the time, which would still be flying today.
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