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[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by sapper740
Jon, the Arrow, much like the Lusitania, the grassy knoll, the bombing of Coventry, the Hindenburg et al will forever live on as unsolved conspiracies and to suggest that we dispense with these historical enigmas will only make you part of the conspiracy to cover up the truth. What are you hiding Jon? Hmmm?

He he he...not hiding anything, just have formulated my own theory about the Arrow's demise.

Let me insert a little snippet of little known information.

It was not Diefenbaker who "rose in the Commons and announced the termination of the Arrow project". Diefenbaker called for only a cessation of production whilst further cost overruns were examined.

It was the grossly alcoholic Crawford Gordon who, in a fit of pique and spite, ordered the Avro production lines closed down, thereby putting some 20,000 workers and sub contractors out of work.

It fell to the RCAF, through DDP, to issue the scrapping edicts for the airframes.

BTW, June Callwood, a Canadian iconic literary figure died yesterday.

She lived in Malton at the time and always claimed that she heard an Arrow "get away" at o' dark thirty and fly to the east.