Plans afoot to rescue the Avro Arrow from a watery grave

[robkelk]

Alas, there are no plans to actually build and fly an Avro Arrow... but there are plans to raise, conserve (in the museum sense of the word), and restore the prototypes that were sunk in Lake Ontario.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/av ... -1.4207116

Hurrah!
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[Norgarth]

neat
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[Black Aeronaut]

Interesting... Sounds like the Arrow would have been right up there with the SR-71 Blackbird and the B-58 Hustler.

I definitely wish them luck in restoring the aircraft. Since it's a COLD freshwater lake, they much just have some success.

[robkelk]

Step one: find them.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/a ... -1.4225591
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[robkelk]

Found one!

[robkelk]

Looks like what was found was a 1/8 scale model, used to test the wing design. It's out of the water and going to the Air and Space Museum for conservancy.

[robkelk]

(blows dust off thread)

(coughs)

(blows more dust off thread)

Speaking of "plans"...

The Avro Arrow MK 2 prototype blueprints - which had been ordered destroyed 60 years ago - were kept by one of the senior draftsmen.

They are on display at the University of Saskatchewan until April.

I hope that the current owner (the son of said draftsman) would be willing to let either Library and Archives or the Air and Space Museum digitize the plans...

[Norgarth]

One of the Arrow test models has been recovered from Lake Ontario
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/aft...1602170364