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News of the Arrow No More

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News of the Arrow No More

 

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Then I went to 412 VIP Squadron which was very, very interesting. You took different heads of states and what have you and also there was one trip there like, I can't remember the exact date and I can't find it in my log book but it was honorable George Perks, he was Minister of National Defense then and they had that deal of the Arrow being phased out so I took him down to Washington, DCA, and it was a last moment sort of appeal, you know, help us or buy some of them or whatever it is they were having in mind but anyway, we came back that night and came back to see if everything was fine, car ready and all that sort of thing and he said, “Sit down.” So I had taken a lot of trips previous to this and he said, “Dungey, this is one of the saddest days for Canada.” I said, “Is that so?” And he says, “Yeah, I'm afraid our Arrow is going to go and it's very, very sad because we got the best aircraft in the world but he says we can't get anyone to support us, our economy just won't support it.” So I can always remember that trip. It was a bad day for us because we were a way, way, way ahead of everything in the world.

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