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For those unfamiliar: The Avro Arrow was a Mach 2 Interceptor that was suddenly and completely destroyed by 
conservative government directive.
Not only was the program ended, unfunded, all planes, partial planes, all blueprints destroyed, all testing data destroyed, all models melted down.
Thousands of engineers fired.
It was the finest plane of its time, shocking military aviation.
![The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) primary interceptor into the 1960s and beyond.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/161/132/513/838/646/original/8c7a949c179f6dc3.jpg "The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) primary interceptor into the 1960s and beyond.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow")