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Or I can start with the aero and space specialists that fled to NASA and other agencies after we abandoned our programs.

Canadians are really traumatized by the whole Avro Arrow incident, weren't they? Most Americans don't know anything about it.

Canadians are really traumatized by the whole Avro Arrow incident, weren't they?
Most Americans don't know anything about it.

Very true.
I'd stumbled across a bit of the history of the ground-breaking plane on aviation sites
on the net.

I also saw part of the four-hour miniseries that was made about the project.
Folks interested can check it out at:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118641

Too bad it doesn't seem to be available on video/DVD.
Although it had it's fictionalized aspects, it was a pretty good, straight-forward story.
Dan Ackroyd was pretty good in portraying the head of the project.

To cut to the chase...it appears to me that the Canadians felt they were
"rolled" by the USA (or at least our military-industrial complex).
They did build a fantastic plane that would have served the combined forces of NATO,
but the USA shunned the deal; it folded, the Canadians broke up the test planes...
and a significant amount of Canadian aeronautic talent left for the USA and Europe.

That may have included my Canadian uncle that had worked for a Canadian aviation
concern in Montreal, but ended up in Huntsville, Alabama in the 1960s (IIRC).

Canadians are really traumatized by the whole Avro Arrow incident, weren't they?

Very true. Oddly, most Canucks don't have any idea how big the implications were of the Arrow cancellation, and at a similar time the abandonment of the BOMARK missle program (that would have made Canada a nuclear power). We lost our best and brightest to the U.S. efforts. Good thing at least that they had a place on our side to go.

What's the most frustrating thing to me and other Canucks of my ilk is the knowledge of what we could do as a nation if we weren't governed by such incompetants. I'm not in a rant mood tomight so I won't get deeply into it, but what hair we have that isn't going grey is rapidly getting torn out due to aggravation.

Chretien must go. He's damaging us in serious ways.