Video from the Past [39] - CF-105 Avro Arrow Documentary 

Still the most bad ass looking plane ever. and in the 50s. Canadas best creation ever.

19:52 - Such BS as to be staggering beyond belief. Just the export sales of the aircraft, to overseas markets, would have MORE than covered the expense. 43:19 and 46:40 - My point exactly. 43:50 - BS! You don't just destroy brand new, multi-million dollar aircraft. They could have been used as test beds for new engines, weapons systems, canopies, ejection seats, et cetera. They could have even been used as chase planes for other programs. 46:45 - MORE BS! The 1953-54 Canadian Defense (Defence) budget was $1.8 BILLION, so it would have been around $2 billion in 1959. How would having even $100 million for the Arrow program, a mere FIVE PERCENT of the budget, take ALL the money from the Army and Navy, leaving them "totally bereft?" He is also totally misusing the word bereft here, btw. The one thing this program does not say is that the Arrow program was RIFE with Soviet spies. It was said the Russians were getting the information from their spies as fast as it was available to the Avro engineers. If you take an Arrow, downsize it a bit, put on those mach 3 air intakes they discussed in the program, you have a MiG-25. The only significant difference is that the wing is not a full delta and there are elevators in the back, which would have probably also been changed with the Arrow, to add stability at the higher mach number. A full delta wing with "elevons" (combination elevators and ailerons) would likely be difficult to control around mach 3. The twin vertical stabilizers of the MiG-25 are likely merely a redundancy feature and were possibly added by the Soviets to hide evidence of the Foxbat's Canadian heritage.

They're going to bring her back someday. The Arrow is on the list of airplanes that need to come back.

Looking at this aircraft I see similarities with other later aircraft , nose/cockpit/engine air intakes - Jaguar - beinging one of them , looks wise it looked the part , speed wise - mach 1.9 - as a fighter/intercepter it had that covered - fastest aircraft in the air at that time - probably - years ahead of the Lightning . As for it demise , as with the British TSR2 , a crippling blow to Canadian Avation Industry , from which it never recovered . Looked at , at that time by the Canadian Government a Hugh financial drain , with hindsight - something Politicians do not process - possible could have been Canada's greatest input to Milartry Aviation , the fact the British wanted it to evaluate/maybe improve - we do sometimes improve things - speaks volumes for it potential . A sad fact the Canadian Government destroyed the the Canadian Avation Industry , much as the British Government did to the British Avation Industry (TSR2)

Cries a single cold Canadian tear.

a master piece the Canadian genius, we all know who are behind the cancellation and why... shame

Pierre polliviere would have canceled it as well

Air Canada........making poor decisions for over 75 years!!!! (IMO)

They're liers!! I see a cover up here.