I can't believe all the posters here that trash the Arrow as a 'today' interceptor / fighter. Are they on drugs?...or just typical Canadian idjits?
Is it beyond the scope of your logic (((( Yes You )))-to assume that a 50 year old aircraft way ahead of it's then time would be utilized today in a late '50s form? IF the Arrow had served in Canada we would have re and re'd it every year for the last half century. Too much to figure out? ...hmmm..that's why we have "Ohhhh Canada" as our anthem...silly thinkers...sadly who post on forums like this.
The Arrow would be 50 years ahead of 2011, TODAY, I'D wager .....and I'd win. GAME SET MATCH. If needed for a fighter role ...it would have a version to do just that....A high altitude bomber role ? - just that. A space shuttle?...Just that.
Anyone who compares 1950's technology to today is a complete idiot. The Avro Arrow was, and still could be, morphed into a winning program for Canada TODAY. We LIKE moving targets here. We EXCEL at moving targets here. Our pilots can take on 10% of the Nato role with 2% resources and come up for Tim Horton's Coffee -safe and sound in the morning back at base.
IF we had the ARROW today...we'd be spending our OWN bucks on our OWN aircraft/ our OWN engines / our OWN avionics / our OWN computer systems...and financing the rest of the western world to buy OUR capabilities ...NOT theirs.
...It's because of short sighted idiots like you nay sayers that we have no Arrow in Canada today..... ((( OHHHH CANADA )))))
