If you want to see a Canadian aircraft nut go crazy, ask them about the Avro Arrow. It was going to be the crown jewel of the Canadian aircraft industry, until it got axed. There are many up there who maintain that it was an eeeeeevil conspiracy by the US "military-industrial complex" that got it cut, because it was so much better than anything the US was building at the time--which isn't true, but it was a good plane, and a bit of a shame that it wasn't built.
So, as a result, the Canadian airplane industry became better known for building go-anywhere prop planes named after animals...Beavers, Otters, and Caribou. :)
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I don't know much about the Avro Arrow (except that it is one sweet looking bird). But it wouldn't be the first (or the last) time that a tremendous technical achievement got cancelled. Lockheed was planning a fighter-variant of the SR-71 Blackbird (the YF-12, I believe). It was shut down around because the USAF was persuaded that with all the SAM's that were being fielded, low-altitude, sub-mach was the way to go -- hence we got that pig, the F-111.
Operational costs for the YF-12 would have been outta sight as continued flights of the SR-71 eventually proved. It probably wouldn't have flown much, even if we'd fielded it.