[VOA]

Canadians are really traumatized by the whole Avro Arrow incident, weren't they?
Most Americans don't know anything about it.

Very true.
I'd stumbled across a bit of the history of the ground-breaking plane on aviation sites
on the net.

I also saw part of the four-hour miniseries that was made about the project.
Folks interested can check it out at:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118641

Too bad it doesn't seem to be available on video/DVD.
Although it had it's fictionalized aspects, it was a pretty good, straight-forward story.
Dan Ackroyd was pretty good in portraying the head of the project.

To cut to the chase...it appears to me that the Canadians felt they were
"rolled" by the USA (or at least our military-industrial complex).
They did build a fantastic plane that would have served the combined forces of NATO,
but the USA shunned the deal; it folded, the Canadians broke up the test planes...
and a significant amount of Canadian aeronautic talent left for the USA and Europe.

That may have included my Canadian uncle that had worked for a Canadian aviation
concern in Montreal, but ended up in Huntsville, Alabama in the 1960s (IIRC).

[badfreeper]

"I also saw part of the four-hour miniseries that was made about the project...Too bad it doesn't seem to be available on video/DVD.

This CBC miniseries is available on both VHS and DVD (and PAL too) directly from CBC. The DVD is probably your best bet, it includes two documentaries that are sold seperately from the miniseries on VHS for less than the price of the 3 videos. It's CAD$39.95 plus shipping.