The Avro Canada CF-105 “Arrow” was one of the best Cold War fighters you probably never heard of. Was it the ace Canada never played against the Soviet Union? The airplane’s manufacturer raced onto ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Arrow was one beautiful fighter. In the early 1950s, the Canadian government began to solicit orders for a new high-speed interceptor. The explosion in jet technology ...

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Scale Model Flight Test Prototypes Sunk in Lake May Provide Clues to Mystery. The Canadian-built CF-105 Avro Arrow is many things in aviation history, but more than anything else, it is an enigma.

The cancellation of the Avro Canada CF-105 interceptor in February 1959 was a traumatic event for Canada's emerging aerospace industry. When Aviation Week reported on the fighter's rollout, in October ...

Scale working models of one of nine Avro Arrow free flight models launched over Lake Ontario in series of tests during 1954 - 1957. (Credit: Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa/Toronto ...

This history of the Canadian aerospace sector can best be described as a series of proverbial kicks to the nads by countries more powerful than itself. Never mind that the AEA Silver Dart, the first ...