Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country

Re:Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a... by sgt101 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:04PM (#23544848)

Robert Mcnamara made a similar point about Concorde - but that wasn't cancelled. A vast amount of talent and capital was effectively lost on it. The point that Mcnamara didn't ever make though was that a great deal of Concorde's troubles can be pinned on the oil crisis.

There is a lot of randomness and counter factuals to be considered in these stories.

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Re:Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a... by fragmede on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:08PM (#23545980)

Given how much the knowledge from making the Concorde later made it into Airbus and their planes, I don't know that the talent and capital was "effectively lost".

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Re:Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a... by sgt101 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:05AM (#23548623)

I was under the impression that the vast bulk of the engineering effort for Concorde was targetted on making it a viable supersonic aircraft. Airbus has never built a supersonic aircraft...

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