CF-105 Avro Arrow Wind Tunnel Testing

[@ur_a_buS]

Thank you for posting this. Incredible.

[@normandrichard1540]

My father louis richard was top machinist on the arrow top secret when we lived in thistletown for ten years

[@fdr14127]

Among the Cornell Labs wind tunnel employees were Bill Jenny, George Richards. Both good friends are now gone, my they rest in peace......

[@normandrichard1540]

Doug Robinson hi doug my father was top machinist on the arrow when we lived in thistletown when i was young his name was louis richard

[@swordslayer5602]

Incredible how a model of the most advance fighter in developement were sent to a American firm for wind tunnel design. No one ever thought , that theft was occuring and the designs were copied and Avro Canada was getting robbed of its delopement program. The 105 was in American hands before the first rivit was ever installed.

[@agnosticsaint]

Stop with the BS conspiracy. What technology did the US steal from Canada? Absolutely none. The Arrow wouldn't even have made the drawing board without substantial US assistance. The 105 was designed on IBM computers leased from the US. As described here, it had to be tested in the US as Canada didn't have advanced wind tunnels. The powered flights were conducted with US engines. The air testing of the Iroquois engines were conducted on a US B-47. The weapons system was the Hughes Sparrow 3 which was develeoped in conjuction with the US Navy. The reality is the concept was obsolete before it could enter service. Even the US did not produce a dedicated interceptor after 1959.

[@allanlacosse6630]

Models are starting to be found as of today in Lake Ontario

[@hughwilliams2122]

Resurrection CF-105~!!! =^.^=~...

[@nodnerbhu]

little did they know all that work went to waste

[@bsc4344]

Not really. The Yanks got our top notch revolutionary titanium workers, NASA got many of our top engineers/scientists, and the commie bastard russians got top tech copied and stolen by their moles. Oh yah, MUCH MORE worse than just wasted.

[@raynus1160]

@@bsc4344 The Arrow was made primarily of 75ST aluminum alloy, not titanium.