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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.AVRO and DE Havilland were both subsidiaries companies of British origin but built/ designed independent of the parent company. Similar...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.Neither does Sweden, but they build maintain and overhaul their equipment. We do the same. No excuse to not build here. The UK was...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.Boeing 700 series aircraft, the F15, B52, F16 these are are old design given a new lease on life through out the years Updated cockpits...
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CThe main quibble I have is not that it was cancelled, but how it was cancelled. I am aware that there have been reports of Soviet...
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CEven if they had paused/cancelled the program, but kept 6 going as testbeds, it would have done our aerospace industry a lot of good.
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.The British were going to buy a few of them for the interim. How would you know? They never went into production, Nor did we follow up...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.The F4 was not designed that way at first. It was in design and test for a number of years, changing specs more then once. Adding things...
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CWrong! The F-4 Phantom could do everything the Arrow could and then some. For example, it could carry up to 18,000 lbs of ordinance vs...
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CAs I recall much of the overruns were related to the accompanying Sparrow missile system, once they had dropped that, costs came under...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.Yup Most Jets were designed for a specific mission at the time and they evolved into multi roles as time and experiences happened...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.Perhaps, we will never know for sure. We do know our allies to the south were very concerned about the whole program to which I am sure...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.I am pretty certain they would would have had customers lined up once they hit their performance promise.
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CTrue, but they would have needed an export market. I don't know how many they were planning for the RCAF but I doubt it would have been...
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Cchilds56 replied to the thread Avro Arrow RL-206.The Arrow was an advancement in aircraft that was years ahead of any other program. Spec wise the Avro and or variants could possibly be...