In "Aircraft Stories", sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of comple…
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A case study of a large military aircraft (TSR 2 from British Aircraft Corporation) which explores modernism and postmodernism and how we might think past the limits that these set to our ways of thinking.
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells stories about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex…
TSR2: Britain's lost Cold War strike jet
by Tooby, Adam, Brookes, Andrew
fromX-planes (Osprey Publishing)
"TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates passion and controversy. Designed as a supersonic, STOL-capable, all-weather strike jet, which could also be outfitted as a state-of-the-art photographic and radar reconnaissance …