The book is quite good: "Shutting Down the National Dream," by Grieg
Stewart. The truth is that very few of the numerous high supersonic designs
of that era were successful in operation. SR-71 and Foxbat were about it.
And both of those had superpower dollars/ruples and the cold war behind
them. Even we couldn't afford the B-70.
OM content - I took a picture of the surviving Arrow cockpit section in a
museum near Toronto. Don't know where it is now. The picture, that is.
Toronto is still there, I think. The CF-100 is there, too. It was an
ambitious design for a team that had up 'till then built Lancasters, but it
was a very successful first generation all-weather interceptor.
Gary Edwards
www.peopleplacesflight.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Garth Wood
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:21 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Paris Air Show...
At 08:32 AM 6/17/2003 -0700, Mike (concerning the Canadian made-for-TV movie
"The Arrow") wrote:
[snip]
Not a bad movie (the first time) and an interesting bit of history but a
little on the patriotic side, didn't it have support from the Canadian
Film board? In the Vancouver area it ran last weekend. And again less
than 2 months ago on one of the other channels.
"A little on the patriotic side"? Mike, we can't possibly hold a candle to
some of the patriotism that comes over our cable TVs from American channels.
I should think you'd be completely inured to such influences by now. ;-)
As for who supported it, I'm sure it was the usual suspects -- the
Government of Canada (through various agencies, programs, grants etc.), the
Government of Ontario (ditto for various incentive programs and tax credits
for film-making), possibly the National Film Board (though it's not really
the usual sort of fare supported by the NFB), the CBC, and so on, ad
infinitum, ad nauseam...
Garth
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