Even though the rugged airplane had survived an emergency nosewheel landing on its second test fight, the Jetliner’s days were numbered. Not even interest from Howard Hughes (opposite, top) was enough ...

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 ...

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.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But the legend of the Arrow did not die with its cancellation. Because of the circumstances associated with the end of the plane, including the scrapping of all ...

All material associated with the Avro Arrow were ordered destroyed by the Canadian government when the project was cancelled in 1959. Ken Barnes ignored the order — he kept a set of the original ...

A decade after the end of World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age. To mark the ...