It amazes me how we Canadians hang onto the issue of this aircraft not being placed into production.

In the late 1950's and early 1960's fighter plane development was advancing extremely rapidly. Year by year, technological advancements were being made in leaps and bounds (unlike today, where it takes ten-to-twenty years to get some military planes into production)!

Having said that, the Arrow was (at the time) at the leading edge of fighter plane technology. Placing it into production could have meant much greater things for the Canadian aircraft industry, well into the future.

Then again, we still have Bombardier!

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