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 ...

With the possible exception of the F-15, no single jet fighter encompassed a nation's pride and ambitions in quite the same way the Avro CF-105 Arrow did. That's all the more notable because Canada's ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, a team of volunteers at an aviation museum outside of Calgary have been slowly but meticulously constructing a 60 percent scale replica of a supersonic interceptor jet – one ...

When John Diefenbaker terminated the dream-big RCAF project to build a supersonic jet that could intercept nuclear-armed Russian bombers in the Arctic battle zone, 14,500 Canadians immediately lost ...

The CF-105 Arrow was designed as a cutting-edge Canadian interceptor capable of racing north to stop Soviet nuclear bombers before they could penetrate North American airspace. But the threat that ...

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 Diefenbaker government’s 1959 decision to scrap the fabled Avro Arrow was significantly influenced by Canadian intelligence that pointed to a diminishing need for the costly aircraft in the ...

Nearly 69 years after the Avro Arrow captured the imagination of a nation, the legendary aircraft has returned to the community where it was designed and built. Standing proudly in the new Flight ...

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The Mk3 is a direct descendant of the original Avro Arrow MK1/MK2 of 1956-59 which was arbitrarily cancelled by the Government of Canada in February 1959. This 21st Century platform incorporates "next ...