From: David J Brooks
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:24 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Arrow was the most advanced aircraft of the day, whether perfect or not
> is immaterial. Ike had one short meeting with Dief, and that was enough to
> scrap the project. I strongly doubt that it was a touchy feely negotiation
> so much as a veiled threat.
> My father was a historian with a special interest in the military history of
> Canada. Apparently he had some contact with Dief in his later years. He
> described the meeting as an iron fist in a velvet glove.
>
> William Robb
The tour guide mentioned that right after every one was laid off at
the plant, the US came up and hired all of the engineers away and to
the US, that eventually became Nasa.
I understand the Canadian Government planned a transition, phasing out
the program to ease the impact on the workers, but Avro's CEO Crawford
Gordon fired the entire Arrow production team the day the government
announced the program cancellation.
That's why all those engineers were available to be hired; because of
one man's spite, they were all suddenly unemployed.
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