It has come to light that throughout the ongoing F-35 fighter-jet procurement scandal, a motley crew of Canadian businesspeople and former military types have been pitching an ambitious plan that would both reinvigorate Canada’s aerospace industry and resurrect its most mourned icon: the Avro Arrow.
The Diefenbaker government famously cancelled the Avro Arrow project in 1959, ending work on a Canadian aerospace marvel that supporters called the most advanced aircraft of its time. Many in the Canadian aviation community never forgave Ottawa for scrapping the sleek, white plane, particularly after the government went on to buy U.S.-made Voodoo jets instead. Proponents of reviving the Arrow are shopping a proposal around Ottawa that promises 120 planes for $9-billion, a number that just happens to be the government’s original cost estimate for the increasingly expensive F-35 jets.
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