CF-105 Arrow

A community portal about CF-105 Arrow with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Avro CF-105 Arrow was a delta-wing interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Canada in Malton, Ontario, Canada, as the... [more]

A community portal about CF-105 Arrow with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Avro CF-105 Arrow was a delta-wing interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Canada in Malton, Ontario, Canada, as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. The Arrow, and its accompanying Orenda Iroquois jet engine program, was abruptly cancelled in 1959, sparking a long and bitter political debate. The five flying test models and production aircraft were then destroyed, along with blueprints and other materials, leading to the creation of a piece of Canadian mythology. The rushed destruction incited a number of conspiracy theories linking American culpability for the Arrow's demise. There remains an enduring legend that one of the prototypes was spirited away after the cancellation and remains intact, but there is no evidence to support this. Many of the Avro Canada engineering and technical staff, led by Jim Chamberlin, migrated to the United States in a massive " brain drain " to become lead engineers, program managers and heads of engineering in NASA's manned space programs - Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.