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The Arrow's Ghost: A Legacy of Lost Potential
Following the Arrow's cancellation, all completed jets, blueprints, & manufacturing equipment were to be destroyed. This controversial decision prevented the aircraft from being sold or preserved. The fallout led to a 'brain drain' as many of Canada's top aerospace engineers moved to the US, contributing to NASA's Mercury and Apollo programs. #Canada #AvroArrow #Engineering #History 🇨🇦
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The Arrow's Ghost: A Legacy of Lost Potential
Following the Arrow's cancellation, all completed jets, blueprints, & manufacturing equipment were to be destroyed. This controversial decision prevented the aircraft from being sold or preserved. The fallout led to a 'brain drain' as many of Canada's top aerospace engineers moved to the US, contributing to NASA's Mercury and Apollo programs. #Canada #AvroArrow #Engineering #History 🇨🇦
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Black Friday: The Day the Arrow Died
On February 20, 1959, a day known in the industry as 'Black Friday,' the Diefenbaker government abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow project. The decision was attributed to soaring costs & the advent of missile technology. The cancellation immediately put nearly 15,000 highly skilled Avro employees & thousands more in the supply chain out of work. #Canada #AvroArrow #Aviation #CanadianHistory #ColdWar 🇨🇦
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Black Friday: The Day the Arrow Died
On February 20, 1959, a day known in the industry as 'Black Friday,' the Diefenbaker government abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow project. The decision was attributed to soaring costs & the advent of missile technology. The cancellation immediately put nearly 15,000 highly skilled Avro employees & thousands more in the supply chain out of work. #Canada #AvroArrow #Aviation #CanadianHistory #ColdWar 🇨🇦
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Avro Arrow: Canada's Lost Aviation Dream 🇨🇦✈️
Feb 20, 1959: Canada abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow, a cutting-edge supersonic jet. Thousands lost jobs & all plans were destroyed. The cancellation is controversial, seen by many as a blow to Canada's aerospace industry and a symbol of lost potential. What could have been? 🤔
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Avro Arrow: Canada's Lost Aviation Dream 🇨🇦✈️
Feb 20, 1959: Canada abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow, a cutting-edge supersonic jet. Thousands lost jobs & all plans were destroyed. The cancellation is controversial, seen by many as a blow to Canada's aerospace industry and a symbol of lost potential. What could have been? 🤔
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The Arrow's Ghost: A Legacy of Lost Potential
Following the Arrow's cancellation, all completed jets, blueprints, & manufacturing equipment were to be destroyed. This controversial decision prevented the aircraft from being sold or preserved. The fallout led to a 'brain drain' as many of Canada's top aerospace engineers moved to the US, contributing to NASA's Mercury and Apollo programs. #Canada #AvroArrow #Engineering #History 🇨🇦
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The Arrow's Ghost: A Legacy of Lost Potential
Following the Arrow's cancellation, all completed jets, blueprints, & manufacturing equipment were to be destroyed. This controversial decision prevented the aircraft from being sold or preserved. The fallout led to a 'brain drain' as many of Canada's top aerospace engineers moved to the US, contributing to NASA's Mercury and Apollo programs. #Canada #AvroArrow #Engineering #History 🇨🇦
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#OTD October 4, 1957, USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite
the Globe and Mail the next day juxtaposes the RUSSIA LAUNCHES FIRST SATELLITE story with a picture of the Avro Arrow, which had just been rolled out in Malton the same day
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Avro Arrow: Canada's Supersonic Dream
In the 1950s, Canada designed the world's most advanced aircraft: the Avro Arrow. A delta-winged interceptor built to fly at twice the speed of sound, it was an engineering marvel, intended to counter Soviet bombers over the Arctic. Its first flight on March 25, 1958, showcased a level of innovation that put Canada at the forefront of aviation. #Canada #AvroArrow #CanadaIsAwesome #Aviation 🇨🇦
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Avro Arrow: Canada's Lost Aviation Dream 🇨🇦✈️
Feb 20, 1959: Canada abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow, a cutting-edge supersonic jet. Thousands lost jobs & all plans were destroyed. The cancellation is controversial, seen by many as a blow to Canada's aerospace industry and a symbol of lost potential. What could have been? 🤔
#Canada #AvroArrow #CanadianHistory #Aerospace -
Avro Arrow: Canada's Lost Aviation Dream 🇨🇦✈️
Feb 20, 1959: Canada abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow, a cutting-edge supersonic jet. Thousands lost jobs & all plans were destroyed. The cancellation is controversial, seen by many as a blow to Canada's aerospace industry and a symbol of lost potential. What could have been? 🤔
#Canada #AvroArrow #CanadianHistory #Aerospace -
Avro Arrow: Canada's Lost Aviation Dream 🇨🇦✈️
Feb 20, 1959: Canada abruptly cancelled the Avro Arrow, a cutting-edge supersonic jet. Thousands lost jobs & all plans were destroyed. The cancellation is controversial, seen by many as a blow to Canada's aerospace industry and a symbol of lost potential. What could have been? 🤔
#Canada #AvroArrow #CanadianHistory #Aerospace -
Nitpicking so I'll #subtoot and disconnect from the poster graphics – but I'm not sure that using Diefenbaker quotes on a 'True North Strong' rallying poster makes a lot of sense. He did and would capitulate quickly, mister #AvroArrow patsy.
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The first public unveiling of the Avro Arrow took place 67 years ago today on October 4th, 1957! 12,000 people came to see the swept-back delta wing plane with "blinding white, matte black and Day-Glo orange paint." wholemap.com/Oct4 #OTD #Toronto #TorontoPhoto #AvroArrow #OnThisDay #BWPhotography #HistoricPhoto
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Playing with Google's updated ImageFX #AI tool.
It has an idea what it should be creating, nailed the atmosphere and framing I was looking for, but really missed out on the actual aircraft design.
The prompt: A flightline of Canadian Avro Arrow Bomber aircraft. It's big, with square intakes and a single seat cockpit. crewmen and support personal are scrambling to launch the aircraft. The aircraft are in either camoflage livery. The image should be in the style of one taken by a war correspondant taken from a low angle. The aircrew and support people should be energetic and very dynamic. Safety gear and support equipment litter the tarmac. Stylized, contrasty, grainy 35mm film Frame the shot so that we are close up near the cockpit of one aircraft, while multiple can be seen in the background. Perhaps include one flying overhead, as if it just took off.
#ImageFX #AvroArrow #AviationArt #Flightline #MilitaryAircraft #AIArt #WarCorrespondentStyle #AircraftDesign #NowPlaying
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I like to think of the Avro Arrow as the older elegant cousin of this CHONKER
Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
Canadian engineers made the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, an elegant delta-wing interceptor made of carbon-steel and titanium that either matched or outclassed their American counterparts. It was powered by a pair of proven Pratt & Whitney J75-P-3 turbojet engines that could push the plane past Mach 2. And this was just the beginning, as an even more powerful and advanced engine was in the works.
The plane had a generous payload of cutting-edge missiles and could even launch a pair of unguided nuclear weapons. [What the fuck????] All this with speed, performance, agility, and style.
MiG-25 'Foxbat'
Fast forward a decade and Soviet engineers made this absolute behemoth of an interceptor.
The MiG-25 'Foxbat' was built out of high-strength stainless steel, making it ridiculously heavy for its class. To lug all this plane, they slapped a pair of massive air intakes on the side to feed a pair of unproven fuel-thirsty Tumansky R-15 turbojet engines so powerful they could shred themselves apart if pushed past Mach 3. Two tails and four wings were added to keep the beast stable in flight. And under the belly, Mikoyan added some of the chunkiest landing gear I've ever seen.
The Foxbat was armed with the largest air-to-air missiles ever built. And on top of this, the avionics were based on vacuum-tube technology so as to make it resistant to extreme temperatures and to survive the electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear blast. You know, just in case.
If I had to choose two interceptors to fawn over, it'd be these Slavic cousins.
#AvroCanadaCF105Arrow #AvroArrow #MiG25 #interceptor #aircraft
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Good Morning #Canada
February 20th 1959, a dark day in Canadian aviation history as Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his government terminated the Avro Arrow project. The sleek jet interceptor was killed by British military advice that missiles, not aircraft, were the future, and by a Conservative government focused on cost cutting. Almost overnight 50,000 people lost their jobs and the most skilled left the country.#CanadaIsAwesome #AvroArrow #AviationHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/avro-iarrowi-there-never-was-an-iarrowi-feature -
Scan from my personal aviation magazine archive: German language advertisement for the Canadian Avro CF-105 Arrow. #avgeek #aviation #aviationhistory #vintage #ads #advertising #advertisement #aircraft #plane #planes #history #nato #military #airforce #avro #avroarrow #arrow #canada #photography (Instagram 06.10.2018)
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I will suggest to @Techpizzamondays’s Papers Club that we read “Arrows, Bears and Secrets: The Role of Intelligence in Decisions on the CF-105 Program” by Alan Barnes. I offer to present about it! #AvroArrow https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol32/iss2/1/
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“The paper makes the case that these strategic intelligence assessments – long the ‘missing dimension’ in the debate over the Arrow’s demise – now allow for a fuller understanding of an important episode in Canadian history.” #AvroArrow https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-long-secret-canadian-intelligence-sealed-avro-arrows-cancellation-new/
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TIL about Zurakowski Park in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, which is named after local resident Janusz Żurakowski, who was the test-pilot for the Avro Arrow. And look, it has a monument to the Avro Arrow itself! #AvroArrow
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TIL that the London, Ontario Airport Best Western has an Avro Arrow theme in some of its rooms, including a big model on the wall behind the front desk. #AvroArrow #LondonOntario https://www.hotelplanner.com/Hotels/231044/Reservations-Best-Western-London-Airport-Inn-Suites-London-2230-Dundas-St-N5V-1R5
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I'm just going to leave this right here. #Aviation #Flying #Plane #AvroArrow
