A description of the commencement and unexpected stop to the production of the canadian Avro Arrow by the US government.

The Avro Arrow After World War 2 in the 1950's the A.V. Roe aircraft company was restructuring and looking for new aviation projects. During the war, the Malton, Toronto-based company had produced several planes for the Allied Forces, such as the Anson, the Lysander and the Lancaster bombers. (www.avroland.ca/al-avro-related-links.) However, it was now peacetime, and new aviation ideas were surfacing. At the same time, the Cold War was "heating up" between the …

…work in high mach aviation. (There Never Was an Arrow, 2nd Ed. 245-47.) ORENDA Engines survived and still produce turbine engines for helicopters and aircrafts today. (There Never Was an Arrow 2nd Ed. 251.) The termination of the "Avro Arrow" project was a sad and unexpected ending to a revolutionary technological step forward for Canadians. However, it remains an important part of our Canadian history and heritage, and a great achievement in Canadian engineering and aviation.