> “The Arrow was an extremely high-performance, hi-tech fighter,” says Coles. “Its designers had made very few compromises to keep its costs down, and it was ve

> “The Arrow was an extremely high-performance, hi-tech fighter,” says Coles. “Its designers had made very few compromises to keep its costs down, and it was very much the 'gold-plated' solution.” Sounds like this is a cautionary tale of what happens when you do what some people here suggest; doing everything the 'right/best' way, instead of realising that being engineer means making compromises.