In the early 1950s, the Canadian government began to solicit orders for a new high-speed interceptor. The explosion in jet technology had rendered Canada’s first- and second-generation interceptors ...

On October 4, 1957, Avro Canada unveiled the CF-105 Arrow — a Mach 2 supersonic interceptor capable of climbing to 50,000 ...

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.

(CNN) — It was meant to be one of the most advanced aircraft of its era, dispatching the threat of Soviet nuclear bombers and making Canada a world leader in military aviation and engineering. The ...

Key point: The legend of the Arrow did not die with its cancellation. In the early 1950s, the Canadian government began to solicit orders for a new high-speed interceptor. The explosion in jet ...

Summary and Key Points: The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a groundbreaking Canadian interceptor designed during the Cold War to combat Soviet bombers. -Capable of speeds above Mach 2 and altitudes over ...

Members of the media view a full-scale replica of the Avro Arrow at the Toronto Aerospace museum in Toronto Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA — The Diefenbaker government ...

There's nothing fun about having an exciting and challenging project you've put your heart and soul into cancelled, especially just as it's coming to fruition. But that's exactly what happened to the ...

OSHAWA — Only one replica exists of the famed Avro Arrow, an interceptor aircraft manufactured in Malton in the mid-1950s during the height of the Cold War. That replica, on display at the Toronto ...

Canada may not be known for its jet fighters now, but in the 1950s it was working on an aircraft that many people say represented the state of the art – it was the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, better ...