Mach 2.5 was certainly the minimum speed calculated. I will undoubtedly agree with the anticipated mach 3 number. With further development of the Orenda Iroquois engines, the brilliant engineers at Avro were already working on plans for reaching mach 3 and conceivably mach 4.
If only the plane could have had a chance to prove itself operationally. While it’s highly glorified; the aircraft was nothing but a test bed. I was in the RCAF/CF for 30 years, including time as part of an R&D crew at an aircraft factory and spent most of my long career in and around fighter aircraft.
Mach 2.5 was certainly the minimum speed calculated. I will undoubtedly agree with the anticipated mach 3 number. With further development of the Orenda Iroquois engines, the brilliant engineers at Avro were already working on plans for reaching mach 3 and conceivably mach 4.
If only the plane could have had a chance to prove itself operationally. While it’s highly glorified; the aircraft was nothing but a test bed. I was in the RCAF/CF for 30 years, including time as part of an R&D crew at an aircraft factory and spent most of my long career in and around fighter aircraft.
2.5 starts running into heating problems. I think it would have stopped about there