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    The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at...
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    The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck (affectionately known as the "Clunk") is a Canadian twinjet interceptor/fighter designed and produced by aircraft manufacturer...
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  • company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000. Avro Canada was best known for the CF-105 Arrow, but through...
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  • The Avro Canada CF-103 was a proposed Canadian interceptor, designed by Avro Canada in the early 1950s as a development, and possible replacement of the...
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    James C. Floyd (category British emigrants to Canada)
    the design and development of the Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner, Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck and Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow aircraft. James Charles Floyd was...
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    developed by the Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer Orenda Engines, a part of the Avro Canada group. Intended for the CF-105 Arrow interceptor, development...
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    manufacturer. CF-100 and CF-105 were Avro Canada company designations that preceded similar RCAF designations that became the basis for the Canadian Forces designations...
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    flight control system was the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, a feat not repeated with a production aircraft (though the Arrow was cancelled with five built)...
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    Crawford Gordon Jr. (category Canadian industrialists)
    eventually the CF-105 Arrow. During Crawford's tenure in the 1950s, A.V. Roe Canada was restructured into two separate divisions: Avro Aircraft Ltd. and...
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    The Avro Canada C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range turbojet-powered jet airliner built by Avro Canada in 1949. It was beaten to the air...
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    Havilland Comet. The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow makes a prominent appearance in Daniel Wyatt's 1990 novel, The Last Flight of the Arrow. In the novel, the...
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  • October 19, 2022. The name Project Arrow is a reference to the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, a military aircraft created in Canada in the late 1950s. The vehicle...
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    and parks in Canada and the United States. After the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow program in February 1959, George Pearkes, the Canadian Minister of...
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    Sabre Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 SM-30 Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Bachem Ba 349—World War II vertical launch rocket interceptor JATO...
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    of the American Northrop Flying Wing bombers in 1950, and the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor that was scrapped in 1959. Surviving airframes XR220...
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  • airliner with engines mounted in the tail. March 25, 1958 – Avro Canada CF-105 ArrowCanadian supersonic fighter interceptor. First non-experimental aircraft...
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    Canadians in the First World War, Second World War, and the Cold War. The museum's best known exhibit is the surviving components of the Avro Arrow interceptor...
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  • renditions. France portal Aviation portal Dassault Mirage 4000 Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Le Fana de l'Aviation nr. 461 April 2007 "Dassault MD-750 Mirage...
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    53 (1957) (UK), experimental mixed power jet fighter. Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow (1958) (Canada). Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III (1958) (USA). North American...
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    Kingfish Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow – (Canada) Dassault Mirage III – (France) English Electric Lightning...
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  • (1952–1963) Avro Canada CF-103 (1950–1951) Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow (1953–1959) Velvet Glove AAM (1953–1956) General Purpose Frigate (Canada) Polar 8 Project...
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    Lockheed U-2, and Republic F-105 Thunderchief. It was also utilized in the prototype and experimental Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, Lockheed A-12, Martin P6M-2...
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    Another notable example was the late 1950s development of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, a supersonic fighter-interceptor whose 1959 cancellation was considered...
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    The Royal Canadian Air Force, which took over development in the hopes of using the missile to arm their prospective Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor...
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    McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II North American XB-70 Valkyrie Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Mikoyan Project 1.44 Sukhoi Su-15 Shenyang...
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    Mikoyan MiG-31 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow BAC TSR-2 Convair F-106 Delta Dart English Electric Lightning Grumman...
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    Canadair CL-44 (category Use Canadian English from November 2021)
    factors. It came in the aftermath of the cancellation of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow and involved a "swap deal" wherein 100 McDonnell F-101 Voodoo fighters...
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    Saab 210 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow – (Canada) Convair F-102 Delta Dagger – (United States) Convair F-106...
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  • Requirement F.155, it was selected to be the powerplant for the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow. The American company Westinghouse was reported in 1956 to be serious...
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