Avro Arrow blueprints on display
Avro Arrow blueprints were saved by a draftsman in 1959 when John Diefenbaker, the Canadian Prime Minister, cancelled the project and ordered all the airframes scrapped and everything associated with the project to be destroyed.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....28af58dcc7.jpg https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...oyed-1.5416554 Ironically they are on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada Centre. I would have thought the owner (the draftsman's son) could have found somewhere more appropriate to display them! |
A brilliant aircraft by all accounts - sadly one of the first to prove that even rich countries couldn't afford to stay in the advanced military aircraft development game by the late 50's early 60's
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The fallout from Diefenbaker's decision was that many Canadian engineers migrated south and ended up involved in the US space program.
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he fallout from Diefenbaker's decision was that many Canadian engineers migrated south and ended up involved in the US space program. |
No - Dief took aim at the Arrow so he could get reelected - .... it was a bit like Wilson & TSR2 - a very large defence programme at a time when people had started to forget about WW2 and wanted to spend the money on social programmes................... or tax cuts.......................
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