Canada has had a long and prosperous history in the Aerospace and Aeronautics
industry, beginning with Victory Aircraft under the British Aeronautics giant Hawker-
Siddeley. However, it is a truism in the industry that there are always many failed
projects and with them numerous “could-have-beens.” Among these is the Avro CF-105
Arrow, arguably the most sophisticated fighter ever to fly before 1983. Sadly, the Arrow
programme was not a failure, and yet the programme was shut down by the Diefenbaker
government, leaving 14,000 people unemployed and casting a shadow over a nation’s
future in avionics. If A.V. Roe Ltd. remained and the Arrow flew today, Canada’s aircraft
industry would be a very different thing indeed. The Arrow would have boosted the
Canadian Aerospace industry in every way, and would have set the standard for aircraft
this century. Its systems utilized groundbreaking design which could have been used
earlier in Canadian (and indeed any) aircraft.......

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1. Avro Arrow
   

   Avro Arrow. ... The Avro Arrow project should not have been shut down, but maintained
   for the benefit of the Canadian aeronautics industry of tomorrow. ... ...

2. Diefenbaker: A True Leader
   

   ... Diefenbaker also had some questionable decisions like the decision to cancel
   the Avro Arrow project, which was a mach-2 interceptor jet. ... ...