Classic warbirds and other aviation vids.
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The North American F-82 Twin Mustang is the last American piston-engined fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the North American P-51 Mustang, the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in World War II. The war ended well before the first production units were operational.
XB-70 Valkyrie, a very non-credible aircraft. Imagine an SR-71 with the B-2s bomb bay. Only two were ever produced.
Probably a few years after Diefenbaker scrapped the AVRO project and all the engineers went to work in the USA
Apparently, a major reason they were cancelled was their exorbitant cost.I wonder how the USA now looks at defence costs of about $800 Billion a year!?!?
I am led to believe that the problem back then was their "buy or build American" policy.
Since the Arrow was Canadian built, there was no market for it across the border.
Too bad, it was a nice looking aircraft, fairly capable according to history, and I'm sure the French copied the airframe design from it for their Mirage fighters.
The US got pretty well all the engineer/design guys. I believe they came out with a star wing fighter not long after.
