Avro Arrow Roll-out

This week, a replica of the

Avro Arrow CF-105 will be rolled out in Toronto.

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This 1957 jet fighter could challenge many current military aircraft.

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Yet the Conservative Diefenbaker government of Canada not only cancelled the programme, but destroyed all planes & hardware.

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This full sized plane can be towed but not taxied. Attempts are being made in western Canada to create a flying piloted 2/3 model.

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What survives of the original plane is the cockpit & part of a wing in Ottawa, the mark one engine & mark II Iroquois engine -
I think in Hamilton, Ottawa & a research station in England.

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There is a legend that one Arrow escaped the ordered destruction. This week's replica may in our imaginations be the one
that got away.,