Avro Arrow
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Originally posted by mike bisson:
It's their ball and they are taking it home with them.
It's their ball and they are taking it home with them.
They havn't invited Canada Since.
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Ive seen the avro arrow movie on cbc a couple times, pretty interesting. Somehow I get the feeling they play it up quite a bit for dramatic effect. They say the plane was so fast and could fly so high but the thing probably had the manoeverability of a 747 and the range of big block chevy. [img]graemlins/cf2.gif[/img]
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Nope, it was the first of it's kind. It was designed to guard the vast arctic expanse to the north. It had to pull a 2G turn which is pretty tight, and go long distances without refuelling. If the Government of the time weren't such jackasses Canda would have had air superiority for quite a while and probably would have supplied most allied air forces with jets.
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Because it is 50 years later. This plane was designed and built in the 1950's, of course modern jets can outperform them. The Avro was the first plane that could break mach 2, up to that point mach 1.5 or higher meant kiss your *** goodbye. It's like SPL, to me 160 was a turning point, when Alma hit that it opened up a whole new world and now there are cars in the mid 170's.
The biggest part is that Canada was on top of the aeronautics game, and our government kicked us out of the running. We created the best combat aircraft in the world and our government, instead of encouraging our own aeronautics industry, they kowtow'd to the americans and we've been paying for it since.
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Originally posted by DWVW:
Because it is 50 years later. This plane was designed and built in the 1950's, of course modern jets can outperform them. The Avro was the first plane that could break mach 2, up to that point mach 1.5 or higher meant kiss your *** goodbye. It's like SPL, to me 160 was a turning point, when Alma hit that it opened up a whole new world and now there are cars in the mid 170's.
Because it is 50 years later. This plane was designed and built in the 1950's, of course modern jets can outperform them. The Avro was the first plane that could break mach 2, up to that point mach 1.5 or higher meant kiss your *** goodbye. It's like SPL, to me 160 was a turning point, when Alma hit that it opened up a whole new world and now there are cars in the mid 170's.
And as far as I know, the Arrow wasn't the first over mach 2 either... the sr-71 was a top secret deal for a long time before it "debuted". It was used as a high altitude spy plane during the cold war - unoffically of course
Was the SR-71 operational in the 50s though? I thought the U2 was the spy plane that preceeded the SR-71. The Avro was cool. We watched the CBC thing back in high school over 10 years ago now. It kinda reminds me of a F14, which is neat because that came out like 20+ years later. And don't forget the F18 Hornet though. From what I understood, that plane (Canadian designed) was superior to the F14 or F15s.
Originally posted by DWVW:
Because it is 50 years later. This plane was designed and built in the 1950's, of course modern jets can outperform them. The Avro was the first plane that could break mach 2, up to that point mach 1.5 or higher meant kiss your *** goodbye. It's like SPL, to me 160 was a turning point, when Alma hit that it opened up a whole new world and now there are cars in the mid 170's.
Because it is 50 years later. This plane was designed and built in the 1950's, of course modern jets can outperform them. The Avro was the first plane that could break mach 2, up to that point mach 1.5 or higher meant kiss your *** goodbye. It's like SPL, to me 160 was a turning point, when Alma hit that it opened up a whole new world and now there are cars in the mid 170's.
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