The Mach 2 British BAC TSR 2 fighter bomber
All modern military aircraft have four key dimensions, length, span, height and politics.
The futuristic TSR 2 was way ahead of its time and got the first three right, but foundered in the era of UK government cost cutting in the mid 1960s.
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation for the Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Top speed: 2,879 km/h. Length: 27 m. Wingspan: 11 m. Range: 4,630 km. Engine type: Rolls-Royce Olympus (like Concorde).