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Sixty Years On, We Still Dream of the Arrow
Sixty Years On, We Still Dream Of the Arrow Canada’s Cold War dreams of aeronautical fame rested on a beautiful but expensive interceptor jet called the Avro Arrow. Orland French takes us back to the first days of the aircraft’s development, when national pride was at a peak and the Soviets were at the gates. And he tells us how the mystique of the Arrow lives on today in myth and legend.
Although Canada did not enter any aircraft in the Korean War, Canadian fighter pilots flew F-86 Sabres on exchange duty missions with the US Air Force, shooting down a couple of the much-vaunted Soviet-built MiGs. He wrote in The Arrow Scrapbook, “It never ceases to amaze me that a project of this magnitude, started in 1953 and worked on so diligently by thousands of people for six years, could be so utterly destroyed by a handful of determined officials in a matter of days.” In a reflective article in Maclean’s Magazine in 1997, nearly 40 years later, she wrote of being startled out of bed on the morning after the project was cancelled: “Our house is in Toronto’s west end but distant enough from the airport that we rarely hear planes.
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