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Originally Posted by SebC
Straight-and-fast? I thought one of the Arrow's traits was maneuverability... wasn't it the first plane to be able to do a 2g turn? Anways, it wasn't just that we lost the Arrow. We lost most of our aerospace industry.
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One of the first designed to pull a 2g turn supersonic, but as it turned out in Korea and Vietnam and all subsequent air wars, engagements rarely if ever occurred supersonic.
You are right about the loss though - it was a huge blow to the aerospace industry. The Arrow as a platform was impressive because of our design and engineering capabilities, not because it was going to be a dominant, or even particularly useful, airplane going forward as designed.