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The Fantastic CF-105 Arrow

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valkyrian:
Well, usually the aircrafts i fell in love with, are of those types that never make it! One of them is the CF-105 Arrow. When the elegant protoype was built, the Russians were searching what is the best combination of "tubes plus  wing" while the Americans (with the F-4 and A-5A were in a better way, but still were lucking of vision). Unfortunately, this superb interceptor failed because of the fourth dimension that every aircraft has, besides height, length and span, that is politics................The Canadians recieved..........CF-101 Voodoos and CF-104 Starfighters, noone of them had the performance or the capabilities of the white canadian arrow.
Please make a comment, as a contribution to this unborn legend............

Globetrotter:
well, I love your posts, Valkyrian! It is sooo true... the thing on the 4th dimension well, just it is like that!!!

I also have a similar case, like the Mirage 4000.... :-\

I haveto admit the aircraft looked really good, and was quite advanced for its time...but is, unfortunately rather unknown.

Fast as a F-104, I presume that also more maneuverable than it, and a really all-weather aircraft I would have liked to see in the canadian and others AFs...

valkyrian:
Well Thomas, the 4000 deserves a thread of its own. Another unlucky design....the CF-105 represented a quantum leap in everything, propulsion (the Iroquois turbojet) electronics (astra system) the aerodynamics (tailless delta).....from nose to the top it was a miracle performed by one company, the Avro of Canada....

tigershark:
Sadly I know little about the CF-105 Arrow so please share more and add in a link or to so I could do some good reading.  The Mirage 4000 in similar ways to the mightily F-20 (had to slip it in) came out at the wrong time.  Maybe it should have its own thread or least make a Mirage thread.  I'm always interested in current older models still flying to and the never respected F-1C types that weren't shown enough love.   You could put a RC400 RDY radar in it and launch MICA radar guided missiles make yourself a low cost point defense fighter. 

Webmaster:
I am in awe of this aircraft as well, it has been somewhat lucky compared to others though, at least a movie was dedicated to its story.

I think everything was scrapped, including all the manufacturing equipment. Really sad. I think not, but maybe you know more... did any prototype make it to a museum?

I'm not sure how long it would have lived though... in which quantities and at what cost to the taxpayer. But it would have made a better interceptor than missiles and the Voodoo. However, I love the F-101 and F-104 as well, I am sure the latter would still have entered service. Frustrating about its story, is that they were already so far in the development before it was canned.

By the way, don't forget the TSR.1  ;)

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