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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Akaikaze" data-source="post: 11077" data-attributes="member: 382"><p>Actually, Wilson already had his heart set on canceling the TSR.2 from the beginning.  He was campaining on it.  So, it is unlikely it would have been saved.  The Concorde was about the only thing he Couldn't cancel.  He wanted to buy American, what ever the cost to the UK aircraft industry would have been.  He had no intention of saving it.  Concorde was the only thing that managed to slip through.  It could almost be viewed as a symbol of defience against him, that he was not as all powerful as he thought, and they would survive, albiet a shell of what it used to be and could have been.  Had Concorde been canceled, I doubt there would have been anything left, other than firms to provide maintainance and license build US aircraft.</p></blockquote><p></p>