I hope it never happens here,
As long as a US company stays a US company it probably won't. The Arrow
was a nice looking plane Don't feel to bad budget cuts hurt our programs
as well..C-17 was almost lost several times. Defense contracting has lots of
games to play and hoops to go through..part of the biz I guess in any
country.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

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"W P Dixon" wrote in message
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Hmmmm,
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As for the Raptor it is a kick butt aircraft,

We had one once sigh: (search google for "avro arrow").

But somebody told us to quit the program and cut up the six that existed,
for scrap. Probably because it was 20 years ahead of anything *they* had
at the time. So our aerospace program died overnight, and most of the
aerospace jobs and the aerospace brains moved someplace else, guess where.

The nominal reason for the program shutdown was cost, but not too many
believe it.

So don't let that happen to you, otherwise Canada might get a chance to
start a military-aircraft program back up....with your people and your
technology. Or maybe China will ;-).