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  • Btw, did the US buy the plans or strike some kind of deal regarding the Arrow?

    The US (and everyone else, really) were already working on similar designs. I’m not an expert but I think they were all shelved; the UK ones certainly were, because they started on their own designs after considering buying the Arrow. The major loss was many Avro staff who went to the US. That’s what I was referring to when I said the Americans gutted our program; we never fully recovered from that brain drain. We’ve maintained a pretty strong aerospace sector (the Canadarm being a famous example) but in the 50s we were world-class.