Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (1012)	7/7/2003 10:32:47 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

When the tories got in, you mean .... the Arrow was a fighter, could have been made into a fighter-bomber maybe but it didn't have the range to threaten Russia, what happened was it had the performance to threaten Boeing Remember Diefenbaker et al didn't cancel the programme right off, first they tried for some foreign [read 'US'] sales .... they had sold a lot of the CF-100 into Europe to cut development cost, AV Roe knew they could do the same or better with the Arrow .... and they certainly could have, if Dief had not buckled to pressure from the US, who wanted to sell the Bomarc .... which had even less range than the Arrow, less control, zero reusability, and then turned out to be nuclear-tipped, which wasn't in the original deal at all ... they did try for a few months to sell the Arrow though, then caved, and scrapped everything 14,000 direct jobs, poof ... 9,000 at Malton alone, lost along with a capitulation of sovereignty ... plus we lost one of the very top aerospace industries in the world ... and we didn't lose all this to the russians