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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
Here is another part of the Avro story I forget about that is also tragic, the Iroquois engine. Also a Canadain desgin, Also highly advanced, also equally awesome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orenda_Iroquois And naturally the US thought enough of it to buy the rights. I believe it also wound up leading to the development of the engines for the Condorde.
If anyone is interested, Dan Akroyd did a produced a movie about the Avro Arrow.
I'll warn you, this movie will give you a increibly feeling of pride followed by an incredible feeling of frustration and dissapointment.
http://youtu.be/9PMnlnqRex4 |
the movie was really well done, but the capabilities of the plane in that movie were pretty exaggerated.
Was the Arrow bleeding edge at the time, absolutely but at the end of the day it was pretty much a single usage high speed interceptor to knock Russian Bombers out of the air.
It wasn't going to be a stunningly great dog fighter, nor an air to ground asset in its original design.
The one thing that people forget is that at the time of its cancellation the Avro Arrow would have cost 12 million bucks per plane, which would translate to about $97 million per plane today, that's without the more costly design and manufacturing of something like the F-35.
the Arrow was a great plane for its day but it was close to double the cost of any other plane out there.