I would say that the F35 won over the idea of a renewed Arrow program because the F35 was an actual aircraft, while the idea of a renewed Arrow program was 100% vaporware.

The Arrow was a great achievement, sure, and Canadian aviation would have been well served by continuing the program. But lets not pretend it’s something more than it actually was. For one thing, mach 4 is a fantasy; never would have happened. Even if theoretically it had the thrust to get there, it would have been an…

dammit, I wanted to shut down the Arrow fanboiz before they got in, but nothing is quicker to the punch than a Canadian with a persecution/inferiority complex brought on by the Diefenbaker/Arrow controversy.

get over it, it was 40 years ago.

That would mean that the F-35 program actually led to the most successful weapons test ever.

“I’ll even make the Chinese pay for it!”

It took 7 years, 1 months, and 25 days from Kennedy’s challenge to go to the moon to landing on it. How much more time (and money) does the F-35 get?