Excellent article on the Avro Arrow: The project was genuinely ground-breaking. Avro’s engineers had been allowed to build a record-breaker without compromise.

Excellent article on the Avro Arrow: 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. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-breaking-jet-which-still-haunts-a-country https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-break...