Can anyone ID this plane, please ?

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It was in the last episode of The Game - brilliant series, by the way. I thought it was a TSR2 but it isn't. Tornado's came later than when this programme was set, I thought. Not a Phantom.

EDIT: Maybe I am a decade out. I thought The Game was set in the 1960's but maybe it was a decade later. Which would make it a Tornado - just that the nacelles look different to the photos I have.
 

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I think there are only two TSR2s still in existence and neither flew. I've seen the one at Cosford museum in Shropshire. It's a beautiful aeroplane and a great shame, but they really needed microelectronics, which weren't available at the time, and even discrete transistors weren't easily nuclear-hardened. The Wikipedia page says that during development the avionics, etc. added a lot of weight and overall performance wasn't as good as intended.

ISTR Tony Benn pulled the plug.
 
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Can you put the picture up again please.
Just going through late father in laws photos, he was in Aircraft development from 1943-1987.

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Edit to add. High speed aircraft, Fairey Delta 2, and BAC 221
 
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