'It was quite an exciting ride'

摘要

As chief test pilot at BAC Warton, Jimmy Dell flew TSR2 XR219 12 times, this representing exactly half the total of 24 flights achieved over the aircraft's short flying career. Sadly, Jimmy died on 25 March 2008, but Aeroplane was fortunate to have been able to interview him at IWM Duxford on 16 December 2005 on the occasion of the roll-out of restored TSR2 XR222, the fourth development batch aircraft.