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THE ARROW SCRAPBOOK
by Peter Zuring
The ultimate book on the ultimate aircraft to ever come out of Canada. Uncover the mystery and the myth in this definitive collection of rarely seen photos, drawings, letters and original documents.This book sets the record straight and describes plans to re-create the mythic Arrow by 2009.
Originally posted by Dallas
What I still have trouble understanding is why and what could Canada possibly gain on that arrangement. Diefenbaker was a fool and perhap's US tool.
Dallas
He definately was a fool.
Originally posted by Realist05
most of the claims in this thread are just false. Kelly Johnson and Lockheed and the Mc Donald Douglas development team did not need Canadian assistance to come up with the SR-71 or Eagle.
In April, 1959, Chamberlin and two dozen other engineers from Avro were recruited by the fledgling National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. The Avro group, which eventually included 32 engineers, joined NASA's Space Task Group at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The group later moved to Houston, Texas, to become the core of what is today the Johnson Space Center.
Originally posted by waynos
Yet another case of America copying the bright ideas of others, for shame.
Originally posted by waynos
The claims over supersonics are way off the mark. The Arrow was a truly excellent fighter, no question, and the RAF specifically killed the supersonic Javelin (Gloster P.376) because it wanted the Arrow as the replacement for the Lightning (still brand new at the time and the best interceptor in the world - thats how good the Arrow was).
BUT- As far as supersonic fighters goes, the worlds first (after Stalin blew it and forced the Sukhoi Su 17 to be scrapped when almost complete in 1949) was the North American F-100 which flew in 1953, the following year the F-104 was the first mach 2 fighter, in 1956 Convair had a mach 2 fighter and bomber double with the F-106 and B-58. By contrast the Arrow didn't fly until 1958, same year as the production version of the EE Lightning and also three years after the first Soviet mach 2 fighter the MiG 21.
Originally posted by Darkpr0
...a garbage can with wings and (for weapons) a guy tied to it with a handgun.