I made this post to follow Rob's post about the stupidity & short sightedness of governments in general. It seems to me that in many elected goverments, such as Britain, Canada aslo suffered from what I like to call a sever case of accute moronitis. In the last few years the Canadian goverment cancelled the order for new badly needed helicoprtes for the armed forces & also cancelled the order for new nuclear subs that would have given Canada the possibility of patrolling its territorial waters under the polar ice cap, instead of relying on the U.S. The Canadian contituants then ended up paying penalties for those cancellations. A newly elected goverment then proceeded to purchasse new helicopters & second hand deisel subs, once again at the tax payers cost. The most offending though, for me was the cancellation of the Avro CF 105 Arrow in 1959. Even though I wasn't even born then, I still have a hard time swallowing that most offending behavior of the Torie government to cancell this superb aircraft for political reasons. This stupidity, led to the defeat of the Tories under Diefenbaker for their role in the cancellation of the Avro Arrow. This is a render I've made up using a picture of what remains of the CF 105 taken at the Museum Of Aviation in Ottawa. The render is a composite the Cf 105 from Google 3d Warehouse setup in Vue. Top & side views were then transfed to PS to be combined with the schematics to achieve the image I wanted. here it is. The Avro Arrow (designed as a missile equipped heavy interceptor) is widely thought (along with the British TSR-2) to be one of the finest projects sent to the scrap yard without a fair trial. With its demise, the Canadian military aviation industry virtually collapsed and its loss is still much lamented in Canada. Without this axe falling, it would not be hard to imagine the Arrow serving for many years with both the RCAF and several export countries that may even have included the USAF and the RAF. The CF-105 Arrow was designed to meet a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) requirement for a high-speed, high-altitude interceptor to compliment the CF-100. The Arrow that finally emerged was a remarkably advanced and sophisticated fighter. The design featured a high-mounted delta wing and a thin fuselage containing two powerful turbojets and an internal weapons bay. It was hoped that the CF-105 could achieve Mach 2.5, although the rapid evolution of engine technology during the 1950s and 1960s indicated that Mach 3 would be possible in the future. By April 1954, Avro Canada had already begun the manufacture of five Arrow Mk.1 prototypes powered by US Pratt & Whitney turbojets. Production Arrow Mk.2 models were to be equipped with Canadian-built Iroquois turbojets producing an additional 4,500 lb (20 kN) of thrust each. Though the Arrow development program was on course to producing a truly remarkable aircraft, the entire project was cancelled on 20 February 1959 because politicians felt that manned aircraft were soon to be made obsolete by surface-to-air missiles. The program's escalating costs likely also played a significant role in cancellation of the CF-105. As if to ensure that no future government would counteract the desicion, all five Arrow Mk.1s, one completed Arrow Mk.2 and four Arrow Mk.2s under construction were ordered to be detroyed. The cancellation forced Avro Canada to lay off over 80% of its work force and decimated other subcontractors throughout Canada. It is estimated that approximately 50,000 jobs were lost when the Arrow program ended, and the Canadian aerospace industry was never able to recover. This was me ranting about politics & politicians in general, thank you for looking & comments are welcome. Well, my break from modelling is now officially over & it's back to the proverbial drawing board!