Avro Arrow, Cold War JA
Socials 10
Avro Arrow Socials 10
Resources Main notes
- 1953, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) requests aircraft just in
https://youtu.be/yAJb3 case soviets attack
Uq6X6k -video - Liberal gov awarded contract to AV Roe Canada in ontario
- Estimated $2 mil/ jet (with 600 planes). Reality almost $4 mil/jet
- Day Avro Arrow was revealed, Soviets launched Sputnik I, the
https://youtu.be/I79Tp world’s first satellite.
De3t2g -video - Doubts asked about the success of the arrow
- Arrow could travel faster than the speed of sound
- February 1959: cease production of Arrows + 6 completed
https://youtu.be/EdOIn arrows, blueprints, reports will be torched
_IqwsE -video - Canada buys Bomarc Missile which is cheaper but 14,000
Canadians lost their jobs and moved to work in the US.
Canadian scientists moved employment with NASA
https://en.wikipedia.or - Suspicions on Canadian backing out: Americans put lots of
g/wiki/Avro_Canada_ pressure on Canadian gov to get rid of plane
- Canadian interceptors have been specially bred to hunt out
CF-105_Arrow -web Soviet nuclear bombs and rockets
- Need to be small, fast, and designed to to catch up with bombers
- Jet officially called the cf-105
https://www.thecanadi - Designed for a crew of 2
anencyclopedia.ca/en/a - Different aircraft, the avro cf-100 canuck had trouble prototypes
rticle/avro-arrow -web and delays so canadian gov looked for a successor
- Rcaf looked at British, French, US, for ideas but ended up going
back to Canadian Avro Engineering
- Army and navy jealous as 20-30% of military budget put to the
arrow
- Argument that russians can attack from orbit and not from the
north pole
- Program was destroyed to “prevent materials from being leaked
to the soviets” (which ended up being true cause spying efforts
were proved years later)
Socials 10
Avro Arrow Socials 10
Resources Main notes
- 1953, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) requests aircraft just in
https://youtu.be/yAJb3 case soviets attack
Uq6X6k -video - Liberal gov awarded contract to AV Roe Canada in ontario
- Estimated $2 mil/ jet (with 600 planes). Reality almost $4 mil/jet
- Day Avro Arrow was revealed, Soviets launched Sputnik I, the
https://youtu.be/I79Tp world’s first satellite.
De3t2g -video - Doubts asked about the success of the arrow
- Arrow could travel faster than the speed of sound
- February 1959: cease production of Arrows + 6 completed
https://youtu.be/EdOIn arrows, blueprints, reports will be torched
_IqwsE -video - Canada buys Bomarc Missile which is cheaper but 14,000
Canadians lost their jobs and moved to work in the US.
Canadian scientists moved employment with NASA
https://en.wikipedia.or - Suspicions on Canadian backing out: Americans put lots of
g/wiki/Avro_Canada_ pressure on Canadian gov to get rid of plane
- Canadian interceptors have been specially bred to hunt out
CF-105_Arrow -web Soviet nuclear bombs and rockets
- Need to be small, fast, and designed to to catch up with bombers
- Jet officially called the cf-105
https://www.thecanadi - Designed for a crew of 2
anencyclopedia.ca/en/a - Different aircraft, the avro cf-100 canuck had trouble prototypes
rticle/avro-arrow -web and delays so canadian gov looked for a successor
- Rcaf looked at British, French, US, for ideas but ended up going
back to Canadian Avro Engineering
- Army and navy jealous as 20-30% of military budget put to the
arrow
- Argument that russians can attack from orbit and not from the
north pole
- Program was destroyed to “prevent materials from being leaked
to the soviets” (which ended up being true cause spying efforts
were proved years later)
