My father wrote (or edited, I don't remember) an article about state of the art aircraft in 1958. Among others it covered the Avro Arrow, stating, among other f

My father wrote (or edited, I don't remember) an article about state of the art aircraft in 1958. Among others it covered the Avro Arrow, stating, among other fun trivia, that more than 450 engineers worked on the design and it was built from more than 38,000 parts, including 17,500 meters of cable. Unfortunately he switched jobs shortly after that and worked for a fine literature publishing house until retirement. I thought his earlier job was way cooler. :) We still visited the local airfield every other weekend.