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The air and space museum in Ottawa has the cockpit of one. I think it is the only part of one left.


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In my previous life we had a piece of related equipment from the Avro Arrow era. We had one of the yellow tugs that used to tow Arrows around. It still had the Avro asset tag riveted to the dash when we got it. Our maintenance folks lovingly restored it and we used it every day to tow our aircraft. We were eventually able to obtain photographic evidence of our tug hooked up to an Arrow.

An offbeat piece of memorabilia for sure but for aviation geeks it was pretty neat. :D


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We had one of the yellow tugs that used to tow Arrows around.


I am surprised Diefenbaker didn’t have it cut up to “save” money.

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That video is a nice summary.

I noticed that when he talked about the scale models, he didn't mention the ones at the bottom of the Lake Ontario or that someone even found one and fished it out a couple years ago.


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There are two programs in which Canada designed and built exceptional aircraft which (inexplicably, to my mind) were canceled with extreme prejudice; the Avro Arrow and the Avro Jetliner.

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There are two programs in which Canada designed and built exceptional aircraft which (inexplicably, to my mind) were canceled with extreme prejudice; the Avro Arrow and the Avro Jetliner.


There's actually a third: The C-Series. While not actually cancelled, it was given away to Airbus in 2017 for free....after it had been certified and put into production. Now, nearly 800 have been sold and the program is still very much in its infancy. The lack of foresight and support for innovative and disruptive Canadian aircraft designs by our government continues to boggle the mind.


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There are two programs in which Canada designed and built exceptional aircraft which (inexplicably, to my mind) were canceled with extreme prejudice; the Avro Arrow and the Avro Jetliner.


There's actually a third: The C-Series. While not actually cancelled, it was given away to Airbus in 2017 for free....after it had been certified and put into production. Now, nearly 800 have been sold and the program is still very much in its infancy. The lack of foresight and support for innovative and disruptive Canadian aircraft designs by our government continues to boggle the mind.


The C series was a government program? I assumed it was developed and funded by Bombardier. Is Bombardier owned by the Canadian government?

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The C series was a government program? I assumed it was developed and funded by Bombardier. Is Bombardier owned by the Canadian government?


https://www.macleans.ca/economy/busines ... -c-series/

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Speaking of those scale models and the supersonic testing from putting them on the front of Nike rockets (boosters), here is a picture.

My late Grandfather once said he was pretty sure that's him standing in the foreground, in the suit and talking to the guy in the plaid shirt. My Dad says that looks like him but it's not him. I'm content to believe that both of them are right.

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It's a stock photo but the credit (if anyone wants to look up the book): Fall of an Arrow, Murray Peden, Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., Toronto 1978, ISBN 0-7737-5105-X


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