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Remember the Arrow
I was just wondering if any pilots on this newsgroup ever saw in person or
remember Canadas Avro Arrow that was built in the late 50's. My father grew up in the milton area and was getting or had his ppl at the time and he told me few stories about the plane. It seems a shame that this project was cancelled before it was really even able to prove itself, and to have all prototypes destroyed. I would have loved to have seen a truly Canadian designed and built Fighter/Interceptor flying in our airspace and/or to be able to visit a canadian aviation museum and see one. I have heard that the arrow was so advanced for it's day that the F/A-18 is the only modern jet fighter that is able to match many of the arrows capabilities. |
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"onsitewelding" wrote in message
news:JQVXc.240806$gE.14496@pd7tw3no... I was just wondering if any pilots on this newsgroup ever saw in person or remember Canadas Avro Arrow that was built in the late 50's. I don't remember it firsthand, no...too young. But Air & Space Magazine did what I thought was a very good story on it a few years back. First I'd ever heard of it, reading that story. |
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Google 'AVRO arrow' and you will find lots of stuff. there was also a
movie made -- good in parts, very politically biased in others. On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:43:53 GMT, "onsitewelding" wrote: I was just wondering if any pilots on this newsgroup ever saw in person or remember Canadas Avro Arrow that was built in the late 50's. My father grew up in the milton area and was getting or had his ppl at the time and he told me few stories about the plane. It seems a shame that this project was cancelled before it was really even able to prove itself, and to have all prototypes destroyed. I would have loved to have seen a truly Canadian designed and built Fighter/Interceptor flying in our airspace and/or to be able to visit a canadian aviation museum and see one. I have heard that the arrow was so advanced for it's day that the F/A-18 is the only modern jet fighter that is able to match many of the arrows capabilities. |
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"onsitewelding" wrote in message news:JQVXc.240806$gE.14496@pd7tw3no... I was just wondering if any pilots on this newsgroup ever saw in person or remember Canadas Avro Arrow that was built in the late 50's. My father grew up in the milton area and was getting or had his ppl at the time and he told me few stories about the plane. It seems a shame that this project was cancelled before it was really even able to prove itself, and to have all prototypes destroyed. I would have loved to have seen a truly Canadian designed and built Fighter/Interceptor flying in our airspace and/or to be able to visit a canadian aviation museum and see one. I have heard that the arrow was so advanced for it's day that the F/A-18 is the only modern jet fighter that is able to match many of the arrows capabilities. Do a google search on "Avro Arrow" and you will find out all about it... even the conspiracy theories of how the USA were jealous of our innovative superiority of that time, and coerced the Canadian government into cancelling the project, and destroying the prototypes: Only one example: http://www.fact-index.com/a/av/avro_arrow.html There was an effort recently to find and recover development models which were launched over Lake Ontario, but it came to naught: http://www.avroarrow.org/ -- *** A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. *** - Ariel Durant 1898-1981 |
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If the canadian government had kept up the arrow program, AVRO Canada would
probably be todays leading aerospace firm. "onsitewelding" wrote in message news:JQVXc.240806$gE.14496@pd7tw3no... I was just wondering if any pilots on this newsgroup ever saw in person or remember Canadas Avro Arrow that was built in the late 50's. My father grew up in the milton area and was getting or had his ppl at the time and he told me few stories about the plane. It seems a shame that this project was cancelled before it was really even able to prove itself, and to have all prototypes destroyed. I would have loved to have seen a truly Canadian designed and built Fighter/Interceptor flying in our airspace and/or to be able to visit a canadian aviation museum and see one. I have heard that the arrow was so advanced for it's day that the F/A-18 is the only modern jet fighter that is able to match many of the arrows capabilities. |
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In a previous article, "Icebound" said:
Do a google search on "Avro Arrow" and you will find out all about it... even the conspiracy theories of how the USA were jealous of our innovative superiority of that time, and coerced the Canadian government into cancelling the project, and destroying the prototypes: The only problem with that theory was that the US government was actually subsidizing the development of it, just like they'd helped Belgium and (damn, I forgot the other country) buy Avro CF-100 Clunks. The US project that was going to use the advanced Sparrow was cancelled, but they kept up the development and were going to give it to Canada for use on the Arrow for free. The Arrow was a beautiful and very advanced bird, but it was a fast interceptor and they stopped building fast interceptors when they realized that the real Soviet threat was ballistic missiles, not Tu-4s. I'm not sure what Avro would have come up with next after the Arrow, but I suspect that cause of Canadian aviation would have been better served if they'd been allowed to continue development of the Avro Jetliner instead of the Arrow. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ I'm not going to be a place that allows viruses to go unpunished. Anything virus-ridden gets cleaned, anything that can't gets deleted. Period. **** anyone who doesn't take heed. This is my network. -- |
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