Avro Arrow: The Story of the Avro Arrow From Its Evolution To Its Extinction
by Richard Organ, Richard Crgan, The Arrowheads
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Author: Richard Crgan, Richard Organ, The ArrowheadsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07-03
ISBN: 1550460471
Number of pages: 180
Publisher: Boston Mills Press
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Book Review: Reveals the story of the Arrow fiasco!
Summary: 5 Stars
The cold war had a lot of victims. One of them was the Canadian aircraft industry, specifically, A.V. Roe Aircraft,which built airplanes under the name"AVRO". AVRO had been building aircraft since WWI, and had made significant contributions to the art of aircraft design. Following WW I, they developed a well respected fighter jet, the AVRO CF 100. It was a straightforward design, resembling the Lockheed F 80 Shooting Star. With the onset of the Cold War, essentially a stare-down between the US and the USSR, Canada got sucked into the intrigues taking place between the two superpowers. One of the casualties of those intrigues was the CF 105, the "Arrow". The Arrow was a twin engine, shoulder wing delta wing aircraft carrying a crew of two, in tandem. It might have been considered as a merging of the Convair F-106 and the McDonnell F4H-1, later to be re-designated the F-4. Now, take that merger and feed it steroids. The result would look a lot like the Arrow.
But the Arrow had a fatal problem, a strategic problem, not a design problem. the design was decades ahead of its time, so much so that if it were to be built today it could hold its own against almost anything flying, except perhaps a Sukoi Su-25, or a variant. But then, Russian aircraft design and engineering has always been a world leader in air craft development. The flaw was that the threat it was being designed for, a threat derived from the strategic threat faced by the US, was constantly being redefined by the US. The threat initially was defined as heavy bombers approaching from across the north pole; Canada was to be the first line of active defense. Cnada was given the task to shoot'm down. For this the Arrow would have been superb. However, jus as the Arrow was about to enter flight test, in which it preformed spectacularly, the US changed the threat, from winged bombers to ICBMs. Against this threat the Arrow was useless. The laughable SAGE system and the ill fated BO
MARC are pat of the story, too.
So AVRO executives tried to sell the Arrow to other countries that might need a highly advanced fighter. Given that both the US and the USSR were selling aircraft to their confederates, this shoud have bee a snap. Unfortunately, these sales somehow were getting blocked by the US, and a whispering campaign against the Arrow. The problem was the U-2, and it's reconnaissance role. The Arrow was the only aircraft of its time that had the performance capability to go up and get a U-2, and the US didn't want that.
At the time, the Arrow was carrying a price tag of around 3 to 4 million dollars US. Were the Arrow in the Canadian inventory today, it wold be considered a first line fighter by anyone, and could probably hold its own against any aircraft current, including the soon to be produced the F-35, which is closely resembles. Soon Canadq will be paying 138 million dollars for the privilege of co-producing and purchasing f-35s, had they not killed the Arrow back the days of the Cold War, Canada cold be flying current, now non-existent developments of the Arrow. A sham and a tragedy. This book explains all of the twists and turns in the life and agonizing death fo a great airplane
Summary of Avro Arrow: The Story of the Avro Arrow From Its Evolution To Its Extinction
The illustrated memoir of the most advanced fighter jet of the 1950s.
At its creation in the mid-1950s, the Avro Arrow was a fighter jet without equal. This Cold War aircraft was twenty years ahead of its time. Unfortunately, political realities resulted in the complete termination of the Arrow project. Cancellation of the Arrow called for the destruction of all photos, drawings, models, specifications and tooling. Even the aircraft themselves were disassembled and destroyed.
Avro Arrow is a fascinating historical record with an extensive collection of rare and highly prized photos, drawings and diagrams. Using two hundred images, the book traces the story of the Arrow from its inception to roll out and flight test, including advanced proposals for the development of future version.
Primary sources include:
- Taped interviews, test pilots' firsthand impressions, Avro officials and many plant personnel
- Surviving company records
- Declassified government documents.
Diagrams offer stunning details such as the North American strategic defense zones and interception tactics proposed for bomber attacks. This book concentrates solely on the vision, design and technical excellence of the airplane itself rather than the politics of its demise.
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