>To come back to an earlier point, I also reserve particular ire for
>the F-111. Not just because it's (to my mind, YMMV) a pig ugly heap.
>Not just because it was mediocre. But because it killed off the TSR-2,
>which was not (according to the few remaining images) any of those
>things. I've only recently got into aerospace nerdery, and you know
>what they say about preachers and recent converts, but... gah. It just
>hurts to see things like that sometimes.
>
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>"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories
>to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

Well, maybe Gryphon or one of the others will feel like doing a RetroTech of the TSR-2, one day. IMHO, it qualifies as cool enough.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington