Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Arrow

This thread was posted a year or so ago. I thought I'd dig it up again seeing we have so many new members who may have more to add to this huge mistake by John G. Diefenbaker so many years ago.
S.A.

http://www.avroarrow.org/

5 comments:

guy5479 MSN said...

Bill, Jean Chr챕tien made the same mistake with the helicopters wich were supposed to be made in Canada and wich he cancelled once he was in power. This cancellation cost us taxpayers millions of dollars in contract cancellations. There are other examples such as the Mirabel Airport fiasco. Need I go further. Guy

biking2006 MSN said...

Guy did you ever watch the film 'The Arrow' with Dan Akroyd?

winnie3ave MSN said...


Bill. I saw the 2 part Arrow movie. It was very well done.



Who's that on the Red Carpet? Play & win glamorous prizes.

happydi2 MSN said...

I saw the  movie on TV  and thought it was well done. Last Fall I met Dan Akroyd in Halifax when he was in town promoting that new brand of tequila and I mentioned thet movie and that I enjoyed it. He said he was very proud to have been a part of it.

biking2006 MSN said...

Dan Akroyd is a very talented entertainer. I have the DVD and I watch it occasionally. It was a total shame the government wasn't using the genius of those Canadian Avro aeronautical engineers. I understand they were all hired up by NASA. That incredible plane was the fastest jet fighter in the world at the time, 1950s. Way way ahead of it's time. Why did Diefenbaker order those prototypes destroyed? I think there were 5 of them. What b.s. insanity was that? Tell me it wasn't a childish personality dispute with the Avro CEO. At least save one to put into a Canadian museum. I'd bet the Smithsonian Museum in DC would have paid whatever, to have that plane apart of their aeronautical collections. Whew! It boggles the mind.