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 ...

Tony Blackman, who has died aged 96, was an RAF fighter pilot who later joined Avro, where he tested over 100 of the delta-wing Vulcan bombers and rose to be chief test pilot. He was invited to join ...

Summary and Key Points: The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a groundbreaking Canadian interceptor designed during the Cold War to combat Soviet bombers. -Capable of speeds above Mach 2 and altitudes over ...

The Harper government is publicly rejecting a pitch from a former senior soldier to adopt the legendary Avro Arrow as Canada's next war plane, saying that, emotional attachment notwithstanding, the ...

Somewhere in the murky depths of Lake Ontario around Prince Edward County lies several test models of what was once the most technologically advanced fighter aircraft of the 1950s, the Avro "Arrow." ...

In the 1950s, Avro Canada proposed a radical vertical takeoff fighter with an X shaped wing layout and four jet engines mounted at the wingtips. Designed to operate without runways, the aircraft used ...

TORONTO — Five things to know about the much vaunted but secretive Avro Arrow fighter jet program that was scrapped in 1959: — The CF-105, known as the Avro Arrow, was a globally leading-edge ...

Get over it, Canada: The day the Arrow project was cancelled became known as Black Friday in the Canadian aviation industry, but it was actually a point of inspiration for generations of engineers You ...