Avro Arrow

Avro arrow

The company that designed and built both the Arrow aircraft and the Iroquois

engine was Avro Canada. During the war, a Canadian Crown Corporation, Victory

Aircraft, producedthe English Avro Lancaster bomber. The English firm, impressed

with the Canadian performance, decided to start an operation under the name of

Avro Canada in this plant after the war. AvroCanada's mandate was to design,

develop and manufacture new products.

The avro arrow was the first Canadian supersonic aircraft, powered with 2 avro

canada Iroquois enginer and it used thedelta-wings.

It was created in malton, Ontario by avro Canada company and design for james

Floyd, the president of avro Canada company was Crawford Gordon, he born in

Manitoba on 26 december 1914.The Avro Arrow is the story of a near perfect machine, a supersonic aircraft

created by Canadian engineers, technicians and skilled workers only to be

destroyed by Canadian politicians in1959. This destruction included not only the

cancellation of the project, but also the work of more than 11,600 workers

The avro arrow was one of the best Canadian aircrafts and the firstsupersonic, the

design of this aircraft took a lot of time since 1953 they start to designing but the

aircraft showed many complications, then a couple of years later when the plane

was finished on1957, the test pilot jan zurakowski did the first flight of the avro

arrow 201 supersonic aircraft on march 25, 1958, thousands of people witnessed

the first flight of the prototype, then theproject pilot jack woodman( who was the

only military to flight this aircraft) made many flights to try this aircraft . the cost of

each unit was 3.5-5 million dollars and the cost of allproject was more than 400

million dollars, so, the development costs went seriously over budget and on

February 20, 1959, on the “black Friday” the prime minister John Diefenbaker

cancelled...