Original F-117 Sketch

"t_mark" wrote in message news:AtOXb.44204$L_4.37562@okepread01...
But US pressure cancelled the program just like the Canadian CF-105
Arrow.

Yes, everywhere there have been these "superior" programs the US has somehow
managed to pressure them all to be cancelled.

I hear we also bring down the sun every once in a while and strong-arm or
bribe scientists to claim it's just something called an "eclipse".

Here's your hat.

http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans...9/Arrow59.html

FYI, the Arrow was the greatest interceptor of the time and one of the
greatest aircraft of all time. It could do Mach 2.5 fourteen years
before the F-15 could and was developing a weapon system the
equivalent of the AMRAAM in the 1950s! Furthermore, it could reach the
same height as the CIA's U-2 making the Arrow an instant threat to the
CIA, who promptyly notified the President. That's when we started
pressuring Canada with the BOMARCs and threatening to place them south
of the Canadian border if the Arrow Program wasn't cancelled. It
was... on "Black Friday" with the loss of 15,000 employees, all the
aircraft, tooling, and all documentation. The entire project was wiped
out and along with it the pride of Canada and Avro which could have
been a world-class aircraft producer.
Same story goes for the Avro disc aircraft derived from the German
discs. They had the lead and were making progress- we got involved,
shut their efforts down, took all the technology, and brought it home-
giving it to Lockheed and Northrop. No conspiracies here buddy, just
cold hard facts. The US is ruthless when others have better stuff. And
don't start with the Avrocar nonsense- that piece of cooperative junk
was never meant to fly but to mislead the Reds into thinking that was
the best we could do with disc technology. No sir, Lockheed took over
and built the craft that led to the black projects flying today.

Rob

(robert arndt) wrote in
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FYI, the Arrow was the greatest interceptor of the time and one of
the greatest aircraft of all time.

It was certainly a pretty airplane. But every time I look up
potential specifications on it, it seems to be a bit faster and a
bit higher-flying than the F-4 that was going into first-flight
around the same time. And, I'd hazard a guess, without the extension
to multirole capability that the F-4 had.

A couple of years later, the Brits introduced the Lightning, which
seems to do everything the Arrow would have done, but maybe better.
And a few years after that, out came the MiG-25.

It seems a nice enough airplane, but not untypical of interceptors
making their first flights around then, if a year or two ahead of the
curve.

But I am but an egg.

--
Jim Battista
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.