Originally Posted By: King Brown
Canadian heads of engineering for the Command module and Lunar lander were hired by NASA's Bob Gilruth after our CF-105 jet fighter program was abandoned.


This illustrates one of your main problems. Lack of historical knowledge. By the time the CF-105 was developed it was already obsolete. It was designed to intercept Soviet Bear and Bison bombers, just like the US Century Series. Not much use in the ICBM Age, and at a clear disadvantage in a dogfight. The US found this out the hard way in Vietnam.

I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.