with a World War Two pilot in the cockpit and a crowd of staff staring upwards from the tarmac below. It was March 25, 1958, and it was the first test flight of the Avro Arrow. Reportedly ...

This top secret vehicle from Canadian Avro was part hovercraft and part jet-powered vertical takeoff vehicle. There were two prototypes actually made and [Real Engineering] has a short video on ...

Enter the CF-105 Avro Arrow. The Arrow’s mission mirrored that of the later MiG-25 Foxbat; hunt and destroy high-flying Soviet bombers as they entered Canadian airspace.Initial testing indicated ...