P-51 question.

"Ed Majden" wrote:
wrote:

First you blame America for the demise of the AVRO CF-105 (because we
didn't subsidize YOUR aircraft industry) and now you blame the USA
for Canada's weaseling out of going to Iraq because we didn't get
the UN onboard

I just pointed out that one of the reasons the Arrow was cancelled was
that the USA would not buy it.

Perhaps you need to go back to "Marketing 101" then. Kinda'
stupid on Canada's part to waste all that time and money on designing,
production tooling, prototype development, flight testing etc.
on a very expensive aircraft evidently based on nothing more than
an assumption that the USA would buy your product.

Now lets look at the hard facts!

Canada bought: USA bought
F86
Banshee
T-33 ZIP
CF-104
CF-101
CF-5
CIM10B Bomarc
C130 Herc
CF-18
and others!

Now who is supporting who's aircraft industry!

You flatter yourself. None of those mass produced American aircraft
required Canada's financial support. Furthurmore, many of those
aircraft were (and are) exported to other countries, not just Canada.

-Mike Marron