Summary: The Avro Arrow was a cutting-edge Canadian interceptor ... Because of the circumstances associated with the end of the plane, including the scrapping of all extant prototypes and all ...

It was March 25, 1958, and it was the first test flight of the Avro Arrow. Reportedly, the plane only used half of the runway, and test pilot Janusz Zurakowsi's only complaint was the cockpit ...

The Avro Arrow has taken on myths of epic proportions ... with a cost estimated at less than $2 million per plane. Four years later, that cost estimate increased by 500 per cent, and the number ...

The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.