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   Optimus Prime to Dave Smith   
   Re: Avro Arrow   
   10 Sep 17 08:58:52   
   
   XPost: can.politics   
   From: trans@for.mer   
      
   On 9/8/2017 5:00 PM, Dave Smith wrote:   
   > On 2017-09-08 6:17 PM, Dhu on Gate wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:35:01 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> The Arrow was a dead horse long before Dief killed it.  The Americans had   
   >> decided _not_ to buy Avro/de Havilland Comets for nationalist reasons and   
   >> it was the cash cow of the technology base for the Arrow.   
   >>   
   >   
   > There is no doubt that marketing the Arrow and the Orenda engine was   
   > going to be a problem because they Americans did their damnedest to   
   > protect their domestic aerospace industry.   
      
   Any reason that the USA or ANY nation should not do so?   
      
   Fucking A, you Canuck's aren't in control of anything that happens in   
   your victim-mentality walk-in beer cooler of a nation, are ya?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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