 Following the cancellation of the Avro Arrow project , CF @-@ 105 chief aerodynamicist Jim Chamberlin led a team of 25 engineers to NASA 's Space Task Group to become lead engineers , program managers , and heads of engineering in NASA 's manned space programs — projects Mercury , Gemini and Apollo . The Space Task Group team eventually grew to 32 Avro engineers and technicians , and became emblematic of what many Canadians viewed as a " brain drain " to the United States . Among the former Arrow team engineers to go south were <unk> Roberts ( NASA 's first flight dynamics officer on Project Mercury and later director of networks at the Goddard Space Flight Center ) John Hodge ( flight director and manager on the cancelled Space Station Freedom project ) , Dennis Fielder ( director of the Space Station Task Force , later the Space Station ) , Owen Maynard ( chief of the LM engineering office in the Apollo Program Office ) and Rod Rose ( technical assistant for the Space Shuttle program ) . Many other engineers , including Jim Floyd , found work in either the UK or the United States . Work undertaken by both Avro Canada and Floyd benefited supersonic research at Hawker Siddeley , Avro Aircraft 's UK parent , and contributed to programs such as the <unk> supersonic transport design studies , influential in the design of the Concorde . 
