Battle of dieppe

Nov.1,1951- jan.13,1997
Avro arrow, a sleek white jet interceptor developed in Malton,Ontario in the 1950s. It might have fastest plane in the world or our best defense against soviet bombers. It became a $400 million pile of scrap metal. To catch soviet bombers the royal Canadian air force brong out call for a jet that will fly fast,higher and further. At end of second world war, Canada was one of the worlds major industrial powers. The royal Canadian airforce was the third largest in the world. All- weather jet designed to intercept nuclear- armed soviet bombers crossing the arctic ocean, fears of “bomber gap” and studied all jets that were currently available, including Mcdonnell f-191 but rejectedthem. In april 1953, RCAF announced “Air 7-3” calling for new twin-engine, two seat interceptor. A contat was awarded to avro in December 1953. Crawford Gordon became president and general manager of A.V. rae Canada in 1951, at age 37. Only one jetliner was ever built, it carried airmail from Toronto to new York in april 1950. Avro began designing CF-101 “canuck” in 1946, first one flew in January, 1950. 692 were built between 1950 and 1958, Belgium used 53 CF-100s.
Unveiling the arrow
The first sleek white avro arrow is unveiled in front of a crowd of 12,000 at the avro plant in malton. After four years of work by 14,000 people. First avro arrow is wheeled out of a hangar in mlton, ON, on oct.4, 1957. The soviet union lauches the sputnik 1 was the worlds first artificial satellite, size of a basketball and weighed 83 kilograms. Many feared the soviets could use same rocket technology to launch ballistic missiles carrying nuclear weapons from Europe to north America.
The arrows maiden flight
Canada’s first supersonic fighter plane makes its triumphant first flight. Just 35 minutes later, arrow touches down and comes to a halt,braking parachutes trailing behind. Arrow RL-201 flew up 3,350 meters high at speeds up to 250 knots- small fraction of its capability. Only problem was failure of two tiny switches in planes nose gear by. On subsequent test flights, arrow flew 15,240 meters high and reached speeds of mach 1.98.
Is the era of manned aircraft over?
The bomarc missile casts shadow over the avro arrow as Canada enters the missile age. Arroww is posed to become the fastest aircraft on planet, soviets and americans race into age of missile degence. The arrow was built to chase bombers, may be on shaky ground in 1957; prime minister John Diefenbaker agreeded to join united states in an north American air defense (NORAD) treaty. NORAD was focussed on implementing two new weapons systems, bomarc missile and semi-aubmated ground environment (SAGE) surveillance and weapons control system. In sept. 1958, Diefenbaker announced two squafrons of bomarc-bantu- aircraft missiles would be stationed north bay, ont. And la macuza,, que. Bomarc was an anti-aircraft weapon as was the arrow. The americans were planning to use bomarc to destroy bombers that their manned interceptros missed.
Crawford Gordon leacts to blow to arrow program
Less than a week after arrows first flight, john becomes prime minister in landslide electoral victory, inherits arrow program from liberal prime minister Louis st.laurent. In sept.1958, he announces the government will not complete full run of arrow production. By 1958, government estimated that it would cost over $1 billion to complete production of arrow.
AdIEFENBAKER ANNOUCES CANCELLATION OF THE ARROW
Shcking parliament and avro eomployees, Diefenbaker