Transport committee  Exactly. There are cases where you want to subsidize wild and woolly ideas. If you have lots of money, then go ahead. But in many cases not everything will work. There are lots of good airplanes, Concorde being a case in point. It was a fantastic idea, but commercially it was not

Transport committee  There are serious problems. If you subsidize an industry that is no longer functioning, it's sort of like in permanent receivership. I'm not talking about the Canadian situation. But if you have a theoretical situation where an industry is in permanent receivership, the only way

Transport committee  You have a number of issues because innovation in and of itself is not what the airlines want. It's a question of whatever will be the cheapest possible. You want to carry as many bodies as you can for as little as possible in order to break even. So the idea of innovation is not

Transport committee  There's not enough demand here.

Transport committee  Every case is different. In some cases it might be luck, and in some cases it might be circumstances. In some cases it might be countries with deep pockets. It's extremely variable. Even then, that sort of a leadership role may or may not last a long time, because in some cases..

Transport committee  As far as de Havilland Canada is concerned, they tend to be rather conservative in their work. They innovated in the way of developing aircraft, but in terms of new ideas, revolutionary ideas, because of what they made—bush aircraft, utility airplanes, transport planes—they tende

Transport committee  By and large, especially as far as commercial aircraft are concerned, you have to look outside. You have to develop a product that will sell on the open market outside, especially the United States. If you get American airlines to buy your product, you're halfway there, because t

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  As far as aerospace engineering is concerned, if that's the direction you want to go to, the pioneer in that respect was.... It might still be the University of Toronto, what they call the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies—UTIAS, I think, is how you pronounce i

Transport committee  To start, a lot of the innovations that are being used in commercial airliners, anything from jet engines to composite materials to computers and other things, very often, it's by the military. The military pays for it. If you look, for example, at the engines of the Challenger a

Transport committee  Can I say something nasty here? If you compare Bombardier to Airbus, Airbus has sections of their website that talk about airplanes where you push a button and the covering of the airplane becomes translucent, and they talk about the new engines. They have all sorts of cool stuff

Transport committee  Transportation in space.... There were certainly projects of space planes, but the idea of transportation as far as space is concerned is rather nebulous and may not exist for awhile, I'm afraid.

Transport committee  Our clientele tends to be very interested in the aircraft themselves, so we have to talk about the aircraft. Personally, I'm more interested in the people and the history—not the history of the airplanes themselves, but the social history and the context surrounding the history.

Transport committee  Mr. Quick might be able to comment on education and museums, because we do have educational programs in place. As far as universities go, there are different components. You have the engineer and the technician. The engineer designs the aircraft and the technician repairs them.

Transport committee  I have to say I don't know, but the idea of—