The Avro Arrow Tragedy

The Avro Arrow Tragedy

The Avro Arrow Tragedy

The Avro Arrow was an all-Canadian aircraft. The Arrow was designed and manufactured in Malton, Ontario. It was the pride of all the employees that worked on it and many other Canadians. Unfortunately, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker canceled the Arrow program in 1959. Due to all the fight testing success of the Arrow, the government of Canada should not have canceled the program. First of all, the Arrow would have made Canada advanced in aeronautical technology. Secondly, the Arrow could have protected not only Canada but also the United States from attacking Russian nuclear missiles. Finally, if the program had not canceled, Canada’s would not have had to lose part of its brainpower.
First of all, the concept of the Arrow and its capability would have made Canada advanced in aeronautical technology. The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) wanted a new type of aircraft capable of intercepting missiles. The RCAF looked for such an aircraft in other countries, such as Britain and the United States, but found out no country was designing or manufacturing aircrafts compared to or superior to the Arrow.[1] In that case the RCAF and the Liberal government of St. Laurent at the time decided to build such and aircraft in Canada, to be designed and built by A.V. Roe Canada. The Arrow would be able to fly out of its base and reach its target in minutes to be able to destroy it with the missile it’s equipped with. Thus Canada seeing no other country was building such an aircraft took the opportunity to build their very own original aircraft, which later had great amount of success in its flight tests. In addition to building the Arrow a new engine with new technology was built for the Arrow. At first the engines were supposed to be gotten somewhere else along with the weapons and electronics, but since an engine could not be found the Iroquois engine was developed. The Iroquois engine was designed and developed by...

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