avro arrow
...te 1950's by the Avro Aircraft Company of Malton, Ontario, Canada. The Arrow was the follow on to Avro's first military design, the highly successful CF-100 Canuck. The company used its financial wealth to obtain the most well known Canadian engineers in the country to begin the construction of the Avro Arrow. The Avro Arrow was a unique and significant aircraft in Canadian history through the way it was built, its purpose for being built and how it was destroyed. In April 1953, when the RCAF announced it requirement Air-7-3. It wanted a twin-engine, two-seat interceptor with a radius of action of at least 1000km, a ferry range of no less than 11000km and a maximal speed of more than Mach 1.5. It was to be equipped with an educated fire control sy...