Canada's Broken Dream

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Wikipedia: CF-105 Arrow

CBC Archives -- The Avro Arrow: Canada's Broken Dream

"It's the closest thing Canadian industry has to a love story and a murder mystery. The Avro Arrow, a sleek white jet interceptor developed in Malton, Ontario in the 1950s, could have been many things. It might have become the fastest plane in the world, our best defence against Soviet bombers, the catalyst to propel Canada to the forefront of the aviation industry. Instead, it became a $400-million pile of scrap metal, and the stuff of legends."

The bizzare and sudden cancellation of the Arrow program was to the benefit of the United States. Most major US AreoSpace companies eagerly gathered up the newly unemployed talent: "Avro vice president of engineering Jim Floyd worked to install teams of Avro engineers in American companies like Lockheed and Boeing, hoping they could eventually return to Avro. But Avro never reopened, and Floyd himself returned to Britain to work on the Supersonic Transport studies that led to the Corcorde. Other Avro engineers found work at General Electric and Pratt & Whitney in the U.S.

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!

[Ferrit]

Truly the saddest day in our history i think.
It was very advanced

[Matridom]

Agreed, it was partly because of this that NASA got the necessary talent to get to the moon. It's become more and more a subject of a lot of documentaries seen on TV. They are even attempting to raise one for the bottom of the great lakes. (thought with little success )