Canada has a long and shameful history of our innovations being screwed up or screwed over. In the 50s our fighter/interceptor was leagues better than the US's jets, but crooked politicians killed the project. In the 70s our CANDU reactors were safer and cheaper to run than the PWRs the Americans were exporting, somehow we lost out on that too. More recently Bombardier built some of the nicest small passenger jets, and now that's owned by foreign companies.
The brain drain is endless. If this project took off, our leaders would roll over in a second to sell it off, it's the proud tradition here.
The project was genuinely ground-breaking. Avro’s engineers had been allowed to build a record-breaker without compromise. But Canadians would soon discover that the supersonic age had made aviation projects so expensive that only a handful of countries could carry them out – and Canada, unfortunately, wasn’t one of them.
The Avro was a supersonic bomber interceptor that was going to be ready in the 1960's. It was good at one thing and one thing only (allegedly, it never flew at speed even close to the spec).
It was made to counter a hypothetical supersonic bomber that the soviets never built. Sputnik made them obsolete!
Amy Shira Teitel, a Canadian spaceflight historian and author of Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight. “But Canada is obsessed with Canadiana, and the Arrow was revolutionary. It was a Mach 2 jet on par with the United States
The brain drain is endless. If this project took off, our leaders would roll over in a second to sell it off, it's the proud tradition here.