11th April 2003, 4:55 AM
Since the war in Iraq I have thought alot of how much our military has degenerated into the pitiful thing it is now.
But the Americans have our people to thank for alot of thier greatest achievements , Such as the Apollo missions were many former Avro workers worked extensively on constructingthe rocket prepulsion systems.
Many of canadas acheivements such as the first Military aircraft capable of doing Moch 2.
(also first to use Delta wing design)
http://www.avroarrow.org/factualarrow.asp#ac
It is said the Arrow is infact still pretty much on par with modern Supersonic fighters including F-18 and F-22 in technology and capability , If the Arrow would have been put inservice it would still be in use today.
The canadian goverment started the project as we realized a serious weakness in our defenses as we had miles of Barren north land to defend from a Soviet incurision and missles and regular aircraft would not be capable of defending the artic so we needed to build a highspeed weapon to combat a soviet strike.
Sadly our but kissing PM decided to scrap the project since he feared resent from the U.S goverment as we would have had air superiority and of course mr defen gayer decided to make up some excuss that the program costed to much.
Sadly if we had not scraped the project undoubtingly Canada wouldnt be in such a feeble military state today, also we would also be leaders in aircraft deisgn which could have given us alot of prosperity and a boost in the almighty dollar.
Sadly it is just a memmory.
But the Americans have our people to thank for alot of thier greatest achievements , Such as the Apollo missions were many former Avro workers worked extensively on constructingthe rocket prepulsion systems.
Many of canadas acheivements such as the first Military aircraft capable of doing Moch 2.
(also first to use Delta wing design)
http://www.avroarrow.org/factualarrow.asp#ac
It is said the Arrow is infact still pretty much on par with modern Supersonic fighters including F-18 and F-22 in technology and capability , If the Arrow would have been put inservice it would still be in use today.
The canadian goverment started the project as we realized a serious weakness in our defenses as we had miles of Barren north land to defend from a Soviet incurision and missles and regular aircraft would not be capable of defending the artic so we needed to build a highspeed weapon to combat a soviet strike.
Sadly our but kissing PM decided to scrap the project since he feared resent from the U.S goverment as we would have had air superiority and of course mr defen gayer decided to make up some excuss that the program costed to much.
Sadly if we had not scraped the project undoubtingly Canada wouldnt be in such a feeble military state today, also we would also be leaders in aircraft deisgn which could have given us alot of prosperity and a boost in the almighty dollar.
Sadly it is just a memmory.