From: "Bill Owens" >> I don't want to bore the rest of the list with Canadian navel-gazing, >> > but the de-fanging of our military started before Trudeau. >> > >> > Can you say Avro Arrow? >> > >> > cheers, >> > frank >> > >> > > > Wasn't that the flying saucer that managed to get about 2 feet off the > ground?
That was the Avrocar. The Arrow (CF-105) was a delta wing interceptor similar to Convair's F-102 Delta Dagger and F-106 Delta Dart (aka F-102B) aircraft for the USAF. The F-102, XF-103, CF-105, XF-108 were developed at the same time, and the three aircraft seem to have been part of a single joint development program. Avro basically got screwed. But Republic Aviation (XF-103) and North American Aviation(XF-108) got screwed as well, so you have one Canadian company and two US companies getting the shaft. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
