From my Good Buddy, Mike "Pockets" Gantwerger from Canada.
It's the closest thing Canadian industry has to a love story and a murder mystery. The Avro Arrow, a sleek white jet interceptor developed in Malton, Ontario in the 1950s...... It might have become the fastest plane in the world, our best defence against Soviet bombers, the catalyst to propel Canada to the forefront of the aviation industry.
Man – that is one sleek plane. Have to send the link to my Canadian friend who works for Bombardier
You wonder how much politics had destroyed good designs
As I said over at ORPO1′s place, I always thought it a heartless thing for the TSR2 to be cut up and destroyed, until I read “From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde” by George Edwards, the genius designer for Vickers. He ordered the breaking up of the jigs because he realised it was too damaging for his loyal workforce to look at – with them knowing what a gem they had
My aviation friend in Canada said that with the exception of the tube avionics, it would have been a competitive airframe today.