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Sep. 09, 1964 - Airborne at last - the TSR 2 - and she is winner says pilot Roly Beaumont.: Britain's newest warplane - the TSR - 2 went into the air yesterday for the first time with Test Pilot SQD. Leader Roly Beaumont at the controls - at Boscombe Down, Wilts. The TSR 2 -the initials means Tectical Strike Ressance aircraft Mark 2 - is built by the British Aircraft Corporation and is capable of 1, 400 m.p.h. The TSR 2 programme of fifty planes is expected to cost somewhere in the region of 500, 000, 000 the test flight - Commander Beaumont kept her below 10, 000 ft. because she is for use as a low level strike aircraft. After the flight the pilot said It looks like a winner'. Photo shows the TSR 2 touches down - with her parachute brake in operation - after her successful maiden flight yesterday
