I've always wanted someone to bring back the Avro Arrow to use the Iroquois engine for freight, but I don't think anyone has the knowledge to even pull it off anymore.
The avro was an excellent plane for the time. It would have been a good plane for the Cold War. It was a plane well suited for Canada's threat environment. The missiles that replaced it sucked.
However, the Avro wasn't anything any of the other great powers couldn't do back then or today and it was ruining Canada financially.
The only question I have about the Avro is: "Could foreign sales have rescued the plans and Ottawa's budget?"
I think not. In an era of hyper-protectionism where the Brits built an air cooled nuclear reactor [1] rather than buy Canadian heavy water, it's inconceivable that Canada would have found buyers.
[1] resulting in the largest nuclear disaster until Chernobyl. Keep in mind, at the time, English Canada largely thought of itself as British and even decades later fumed at the new flag lacking the Union Jack. And yet the Brit's didn't but their heavy water.
However, the Avro wasn't anything any of the other great powers couldn't do back then or today and it was ruining Canada financially.
The only question I have about the Avro is: "Could foreign sales have rescued the plans and Ottawa's budget?"
I think not. In an era of hyper-protectionism where the Brits built an air cooled nuclear reactor [1] rather than buy Canadian heavy water, it's inconceivable that Canada would have found buyers.
[1] resulting in the largest nuclear disaster until Chernobyl. Keep in mind, at the time, English Canada largely thought of itself as British and even decades later fumed at the new flag lacking the Union Jack. And yet the Brit's didn't but their heavy water.