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That the RCAF didn't want the Arrow. They got so fed up with Crawford Gorden's refusal to listen to them about their concerns and needs that asked Defenbaker to scrap the project LONG before the axe finally fell.


Among the concerns the Airforce had, the Arrow was a pure straight line interceptor with limited visibility for the crew and therefore useless as a dogfighter. The NATO need was for an aircraft that could multi-role like the Phantom. Far too late Gorden tried variations on the Arrow theme but his arrogance had sealed Avro's fate and killed the greatest aviation legend in Canada's history.


At the same time Gorden's shortsightedness killed the Avro Jetliner, one of the first jet powered airliners and ahead of most everyone in the concept. If he had allowed Hughes to buy the Jetliners for his airline, Avro could have been one of the big boys in civil jet aviation.


Amazing what a pension for booze can do to destroy a company


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