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

The Avro Arrow was Canada’s attempt to build one of the most advanced bomber interceptors of the 1950s, created to defend ...

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 Avro Arrow, ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But the legend of the Arrow did not die with its cancellation. Because of the circumstances associated with the end of the plane, including the scrapping of all ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Just before 10 a.m. on March 25, 1958, Arrow RL-201 roared into the skies northwest of Toronto for ...

Thanks to an intrepid rescue more than 60 years ago, original blueprints of a famously cancelled Canadian military project are now on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada ...

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 ...