Yeah, I have to agree with you on the Avro Arrow. I've only done some light reading so far and I can already feel the bullshit coming from all these official sources. It looks like a million bucks and seems like it would have been a hell of an interceptor, handled like a feather too, from what the test pilot said.Yeah, look up the story of the Avro Arrow. Although there is some truth to the fact that the Arrow project was infiltrated by Russian spies (and the MiG-25 was the result) the real reason for killing the project so completely was the American aerospace industry's paranoia. A.V. Roe Canada (Avro) was almost completely gutted as a result with most of the engineers going to NASA and working alongside ex-Nazi scientists to advance the American space program.
(As an interesting but entirely personal sideline, A. V. Roe was purchased by Hawker-Siddley and ended up hiring my father as a mechanical engineer, allowing him to completely take over a technology that Hawker-Siddley figured was non-viable so that when he quit Hawker-Siddley he ended up launching 2 companies based on this technology that H.S. abandoned and made himself pretty rich in the process!)
Also, Go JAXA!!! The more missions involving Mars, no matter how peripheral, the better. The more interest is raised in colonizing the Red Planet the better. I am praying to Gods I dont even believe in to live long enough to see a Mars colony be created and thrive.
Your dad is a fucking legend, absolutely glorious.
And hell yeah! The craft, Hayabusa2 left the asteroid Ryugu in November last year, if all goes to plan, it should arrive this December. I hope you and I and everyone live long enough to see a colony on Mars. I'm certain that we will set foot on Mars within our lifetimes, though I personally wouldn't mind some more attention going to the Jovian system too, Europa has some potential imo.

