Yeah, let's rebuild the Avro Arrow

[GroundWater]

Did you get an F on the report?

First Swept wing fighter...

Delta Wing Fighter

ES, I stand corrected, I had Alexander Keiths over that night, I think I got a B if my memory serves me correct.

 

[tay]

I did an essay on the Arrow in grade 12 and, from what I researched the biggest reason it was snowballed was pressure from Americans. The reasearch that I did was not only at the library (before the internet) but, first hand accounts from former employees of Avro. I lived in Brampton growing up and Malton was right next door,(where they were built) there were alot of McDonald Douglas employees around at the time who happened to be my friends grandfathers,fathers and uncles and alot of them were there and employed at Avro.

To make a long story short, the Americans were not happy with abunch of hicks (canoe builders) designing and possibly selling advanced fighter jets to the rest of world. It was designed as an interceptor fighter jet, it was the first swept wing fighter jet, it had Canadian Iroqouis engines and it had Canadian weapon systems,it was 100% Canadian and, from the limited testing it did recieve it was 20 years ahead of its time. It was still in the development stages when it was scrapped and, we never did see its full potential.

I know of people who worked at McDon Douglas who snuck into a sealed basement area between D2 and D3 (building names) and they tried to get in to see if they could find some blueprints. They never said what they found but I think they found something but were to nervous to say anything. They never talked about it again.

But that aside, you are bang on with who wanted the plane discontinued.

 

[Machjo]

Haven't a clue what you are talking about but it doesn't matter...........anything that will give us more a of presence in the North, has my vote.

Be careful what you wish for. "Anything" is a pretty strong word. After all, once go go down the "at all costs" path, or the "anything" path, we're going down teh same path that brought the residential schools up north.