XPost: can.politics   
   From: trans@for.mer   
      
   On 9/8/2017 6:28 PM, M.I.Wakefield wrote:   
   > "Dave Smith"  wrote in message news:FhFsB.52350$TH2.43916@fx02.iad...   
   >   
   >> On 2017-09-08 6:17 PM, Dhu on Gate wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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. The big question is if is   
   >> if our PM canned the project because they had foreseen marketing   
   >> problems and were not willing to try harder to sell it to our allies,   
   >> or if he sank it because it was a Liberal initiative. The fact remains   
   >> that AV Roe accepted the challenge to deliver a state of the art   
   >> aircraft and delivered but our government sold us out, and that cost   
   >> us an aerospace industry.   
   >   
   > What killed the Arrow was the development of the ICBM ... the Arrow was   
   > designed to kill Russian bombers that weren't going to be coming anymore.   
      
   That is at least mostly correct!   
      
   Wow.   
      
   You are capable of doing something other than blaming big brudda!   
      
   ...or...no wait you'll blame us for the cold war next, I can smell it a   
   comin'!   
      
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