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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Airplanes - relatives of the Vulcan
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:21:33 +0000
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Most of the engineers in UK aerospace went to the US to work on the space 
programme too.
I was told that the university with the most graduates at NASA at one time 
was Imperial College, London. But that could have been an in joke.
Frank

On 14 Nov, 2009, at 00:10, Greg Lorenzo wrote:

> 
> lrzeitlin at gmail.com writes in part:
>> 
>> * The CF 105 Arrow was a Mach 2 fighter built by Avro of Canada. It was
>> intended to patrol the desolate frozen wastes of the Canada tundra and 
>> shoot
>> down Russian bombers coming across the North Pole. The plane was built and
>> five prototypes flown and deemed a great success. Aviation experts 
>> declared
>> the CF 105 to be the most advanced aircraft flying. Then in the late '50s,
>> the Canadian government changed, the plane was felt to be too expensive, 
>> and
>> all prototypes, tooling, and engineering drawings were scrapped to prevent
>> reestablishing the program. 
> 
> 
> 
> Most of the technical staff that worked developing the Arrow ended up 
> moving down to the US to work on the space program when the development 
> was cancelled. Some ended up in the Alberta Oilpatch including a few I 
> worked with at Gulf Canada Resources in the early 1980's.
> 
> 
> 
> Greg Lorenzo
> 
> Calgary, Canada
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