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

Re:Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a... by 908B64B197 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:25PM (#23546628)

And Canada as a whole. The profits from the A220 will finance a new generations of planes and groundbreaking engineering work... from Europeans engineers in Europe!

Canada will be left out as a sub-contractor. It has about 650 total orders, and Airbus estimates 6'000 planes throughout the plane's 20 years lifecycle. All that because the federal government simply wouldn't intervene.

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Re:Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a... by Gravityloss on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:14AM (#23549393)

Are you sure? The plane is viewed as being advanced, next gen of sorts, and could influence future Airbus efforts a lot.

And anyway, Bombardier was doing some operations outside Canada, like the wing in Northern Ireland.

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Re:Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:54PM (#23555956)

Bombardier operates globally (it has operations in a few provinces, the United States and Europe), but my understanding was that the A220 program's engineering was mostly done in Canada.

I'm afraid it might stop being the case.

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