On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
> The reality is, if Dief hadn't dismantled the Arrow program voluntarily, we > would have had a regime change up here and the Arrow would have been taken > by force. > The Arrow scared the living hell out of Eisenhower and his Cold War > paranoids in the Pentagon. I can't imagine anything that drastic happening, but what do I know? I think what really happened is that the US military-industrial complex kicked into high gear, lobbied Washington, who informed Dief that he would sell zero Arrows to the US, any other NATO country or any country in the "free world". With no buyers it would have been a financial flop at the taxpayers expense. "You could continue to sink tax dollars into the Arrow, or you could, for less money, buy our Bomarcs..." The Arrow was a wonderful airplane, certainly advanced for its day, but I don't think it was quite as perfect as people seem to think. It's been mythologized far beyond its capabilities, methinks. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
