Avro Arrow First Flight - March 25, 1958 - RESTORED FOOTAGE
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2023
- The original footage was the best I could source on the internet. Over the course of three days, the footage was de-noised, the dust and scratches mostly removed, stabilized, motion blur from camera shake reduced in the air-to-air- footage, colour corrected and converted to 60 frames-per-second. Some frame cropping can be seen in the landing sequences as the original film was extremely shaky.
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) primary interceptor into the 1960s and beyond
The Arrow was the culmination of a series of design studies begun in 1953 that examined improved versions of the Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck. After considerable study, the RCAF selected a dramatically more powerful design, and serious development began in March 1955. The aircraft was intended to be built directly from the production line, skipping the traditional hand-built prototype phase. The first Arrow Mk. 1, RL-201, was rolled out to the public on 4 October 1957, the same day as the launch of Sputnik I.
Flight testing began with RL-201 on 25 March 1958, and the design quickly demonstrated excellent handling and overall performance, reaching Mach 1.9 in level flight. Powered by the Pratt & Whitney J75, another four Mk. 1s were completed, RL-202, RL-203, RL-204 and RL-205. The lighter and more powerful Orenda Iroquois engine was soon ready for testing, and the first Mk 2 with the Iroquois, RL-206, was ready for taxi testing in preparation for flight and acceptance tests by RCAF pilots by early 1959.
On 20 February 1959, Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker abruptly halted the development of both the Arrow and its Iroquois engines before the scheduled project review to evaluate the program could be held. Canada tried to sell the Arrow to the US and Britain, but no agreements were concluded. Two months later the assembly line, tooling, plans, existing airframes, and engines were ordered to be destroyed. The cancellation was the topic of considerable political controversy at the time, and the subsequent destruction of the aircraft in production remains a topic for debate among historians and industry pundits. "This action effectively put Avro out of business and its highly skilled engineering and production personnel scattered". - Розваги
Wonderful. My parents were acquaintances of Chief Test Pilot Żurakowski, and an uncle worked on the Arrow. What a pleasure it was to hear "Zura's" voice again, and especially in the context of flying the Arrow!
What also brought a smile to my face was the fact that his voice seemed most excited with the landing. It's not so much that you are happy you've survived, it's the fact that you are now free to let out the euphoria you had to keep under control while the test was still under way.
i'm still mad we gave up on this
Same
It was the US governments fault they bullied our Prime Minister of that time to axe the Arrow. If Defiebaker stood up for us we would not loose all the great brains that created the Arrow. Avro would still be here today if it wasn't for those people in the US government who had dirty hands. I read a little bit from Randall Witcomb's book, " Cold War Tech War ", which explains what other things Avro Canada was cooking up before the Arrow was axed. I was born in the late 90's and I can't believe we lost such a magnificent manufacturer.
A lot of Avro employees went to BOAC and what was born in 1969? Concorde. The Americans took the tech like fly by wire and the Europeans took the frame and engine design. The Canadians truly pioneered supersonic flight.
30 went to nasa and one was lead on the Gemini program, aswell as the apollo program. Those employees broke ground and its said they were crucial to the completion of this project
Huh?
The USA went supersonic in 1947 and had mach 3 test aircraft (Bell X-2) before the Arrow even took wing.
@@raynus1160 "Test" i think it was because this was considered production. So mostly just a technicality I believe. There was the French Ramjet in the 30's or 40's too. Almost fell to the nazis
@@Sevo-
Ok. Fair point.
The first production supersonic fighter was the F-100 Super Sabre (USA / first flown 1953)
The first production Mach 2 fighter was the F-104 Starfighter (USA / first flown 1954)
The first production Mach 3 aircraft was the Lockheed A-12 (USA / first flown 1962).
Numerous supersonic (i.e.: Mach 1) combat aircraft were flown on both sides of the aisle long before the CF-105 Arrow took wing.
@@raynus1160 well hey the more you know! Thanks for the info!
Good job. Thank you. This is very important Canadian heritage.
Our pleasure!
Man i would love to hear it in person i wish someone would remake one
I remember seeing a picture of this plane when I was 5. It was the first time I was in such awe of the beauty of anything that I couldn't look away. Never saw it again until I went looking for it 5 years later only to discover the depressing story.
I was 13.
We have rather poor copies of our old 8mm home movies of it taking off, flying over escorted by a CF100 and landing. This footage covers much more and in excellent quality.
Beautiful and sad.
We will never know what a great inceptor we had. So far ahead of its time.
Leading-edge to be sure, but not the apex wonderbird folklore has made it out to be.
In reality, McDonnell's F-4 Phantom II was a more-capable aircraft by every metric.
@@raynus1160 F-4 Phantom II was a good plane but get shotdown and lose the war at vietnam it was not great to the end lol
@@p-40war-hawk71
USN F-4's maintained a 5.42:1 kill ratio over N. Vietnamese MiG's.
USAF F-4's maintained a 3.42:1 ratio.
Not bad, considering the first 'hard-mounted' gun equipped (and more maneuverable) F-4E didn't arrive in SEA until 1968.
As a Canadian I'd love to say that we were #1 but I temper the knowledge with the Fact that the F4 Phantom was in Development at the same time (1955 to 1959)and it was also a mach 2+ aircraft in addition to being usable in Navy service which the Arrow was Not due to it's enormous size (it was rated for the same load out as a B25 Mitchell!!!)
@@tylernorris7945
Several Mach 2 interceptors were already flying in 1958, some before. Lockheed's F-104, EE's Lightning, Dassault's Mirage III, and Mikoyan's MiG-21 all flew 2+ years before the Arrow.
As to dedicated spy planes, the U-2 first flew in 1955. The Mach 3 Lockheed A-12 flew in 1962. The Arrow was designed as an interceptor, with a _possible_ secondary rcce role. As stated above, it was an ambitious design, but doesn't really hold up to the hype assigned to it. As its contemporaries were exceeding Mach 2 with regularity, the fastest level flight speed attained by a CF-105 was Mach 1.90. It carried neither a weapon nor a radar/fire control system on any of its 66 flights and, had it not been cancelled, likely wouldn't have entered operational service until 1961-62.
So nice, the restored film looks great, you did a great service for all Canadians. The reason I believe it was cancelled and destroyed; it was TOO GOOD A PLANE. The U.S. aircraft industry was embarrassed & wanted this plane gone.
Appreciate it - thanks for watching!
It was also in part by the prime minister of that time
Oh rubbish. You Canadians are always blaming us for everything. Your stupid politicians killed it and destroyed your domestic aircraft industry
This video makes me SO proud, and sad, at the same time ! Proud of the absolute achievement made designing this jet and getting it proudly into the air, and VERY sad it was axed just about a year later....Great job on restoring this literal piece of history, and to see it in colour - finally ! - brings it ALL back to life, again !
If you ever get to see the Avro film 'Supersonic Sentinel' ? My Dad scripted that, and came up with the title of 'Supersonic Sentinel', too. Although he was never credited for that on the actual film - being a technical writer at Avro, it was 'just another one of his projects at work' - but WE knew he'd done it ! At the time he borrowed a copy of the film, and a projector from work, and showed it proudly to his family at home.
Thank you so much from the daughter of a former, and late, proud Avro employee. :)
Put the Avro Arrow on a stamp (If it's not already) and Pilot Bud too!
Bud Potocci was seen as the pilot flying the CF-100 alongside.
The Chief test pilot was Andrzej Jaruszelski, formerly a wing commander of the Polish 303 Eagle squadron during the Battle of Britain. My uncle flew with him. I got to know him, even after his retirement to Barry's Bay, near Ottawa, where he Invented and built the first jet boats.
Cool plane.. nice looking jet✈️🇨🇦👍
Simply wonderful!
The airframe and engine were a huge achievement. The other half of the program, an RCAF project not an Avro one, the missile and fire control systems Sparrow 2 and Astra, were black hole disasters that were trying to go way too far in the pre-integrated circuit and microprocessor era. A fully active fire and forget missile didn't come along until over 15 years later, with the rather large Phoenix, and with the intended size envelope of Sparrow 2, wasn't really achieved until the AIM-120 AMRAAM in the 90s. The RCAF contributed a lot to the program's demise due to the obsession with pushing the electronics technology instead of going with off-the-shelf (Falcon) and sinking over half the project money into that electronics black hole.
Like our TSR2.a tragic waste of such amazing engineering skills,she was a beautiful aircraft.
Totally majestic. We had the knowhow how to get to the moon
And 25 top engineers from Avro Canada were snapped up by NASA, after the Arrow was cancelled to help put a man on the moon on July 20th 1969.
Not really. The moon is not a place where you can set your foot on. Like the sun it is local under the firmament, (dome).
@@mr.2cents.846 REALLY!! Sarcasm, I hope.
@@mr.2cents.846 help is available !
No, Werhner Von Braun and his team had the know-how to get to the moon. NASA was going there with or without 32 ex-Avro engineers.
J'avais 2 ans et demi! 😺
Imagine the pride Canadians could feel to this day, if only😢
Beautiful. Imagine that you're a passenger on the Super Connie at 9:30?
When my Mum, brother and I emigrated to Canada from England in August of 1953 ( my Dad having come to north America on the Queen Mary in March of that year, then headed to Toronto to 'get established' before bringing his family over) we WERE passengers on a Super Connie ! At the time - and because trans Atlantic flight was still a pretty big deal for the average person to do - we each got a special certificate to say we'd flown on that great plane, right across the Atlantic !
I still have them. Probably about 30 odd years ago someone had purchased a Super Connie, had it parked on the airport side of Derry Road right near Torbram Rd,
in what used to be called Malton ( ! ), and turned it into a restaurant ! It looked SO cool sitting there !!! Unfortunately, we never got around to going to it. It was sold, and removed, a few years back now. :)
@@voiceofreason7856 that’s awesome. I became familiar with that corner years later. I wish I’d seen that display/restaurant.
@@rexwave4624 It was cool ! Unfortunately, I don't remember the actual flight to Canada on the Connie all those years ago. I was only about 19 months old, at the time, but at least I have the certificate, with MY name on it, commemorating it !
I know we don’t have the entire reasons why this project was cancelled. This was such a catastrophic event to the Canadian aerospace industry, one that made us a 10:35 junior partner to the US as a result. Politics is the worst part of the human race!
Huh? Canada quickly went on to become the 3rd-largest aerospace manufacturer on the planet following the Arrow's demise - a position it held until only recently.
For a brief moment in time, Canada stood high above the shoulders of the entire aviation world with this phenomenal jet. Sadly our ignorant PM Diefenbaker simply cancelled it under pressure of the USA who had no airplanes anywhere close to the Arrow and were embarrassed.
Bring her back with new avionics.
Красавец!
It's a shame that they killed it before the plane had a chance to prove itself😢😢😢😢
MADE IN CANADA BABY
1000mph in a climb?
yea
I was working for Avroe. Yes was there at the rimes when we flew the Arrow. 201. And the lay off. March 59: Worked in the blue print crib and one phone call from the government THATS all it took to lay ff 1,500 the announcement. Came over and said stop what you are doing and leave the building THATS it damn Defenbaker. CANADA lost a beautiful. Jet. And the same day we were all told to leave the Building. The Americans were here offering our top,men jobs was a totaly sick sick y for all of us. Just like that we were all out of a job
I was 13 and remember seeing the Arrow fly over our home in Etobicoke. I believe it was a Political decision by Diefenbaker and the influence of the U.S. that scrapped this aircraft. Literally torched into pieces by a Hamilton company. All blueprints were to be scrapped too but we know some survived. We lost a lot of brilliant minds to other countries. Black Friday when approximately 13,000 people were announced jobless. A sad day for Canada. I worked at Douglas Aircraft in the 60’s and a lot of the guys were ex Avro and De Havilland employees working from the same buildings where the Avro Arrow was built.🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁
Whoever destroyed the Arrow also destroyed the the entire aviation industry we could possibly have today. Most politicians have minds of their own, if you think they are serving the country, think again.
John Deifenbaker was the newly elected PM a Conservative from the prairies. He had a grudge against the liberal party who started the program. The liberals basically called him a know nothing hick from the prairies.
What could have been !!!!
Why all the publicity about the Arrow? as far as I am concerned, it is about time it was put back on the drawing board, and the heck with what the big bad boys south line think this time.
lol outdated before it flew..
@@gocatoon4591 Not really
@@crazycatrox70 yes really
I worked at AVRO We were on the roof watched the 201 take off. March 25 / 1958 we all got laid off March 20th 1959 yes it was a totaly shock for all of us and that would be 1;500 people told to drop what we were doing and leave
Like the TSR-2 Politics got involved,
If the Americans had bought the Arrow, they would have won in Vietnam.
(Immediately don's a fire suit)
no
You should have donned a clown suit.
junk
This is a piece of real Canadian History!
@@mustangmanmustangman4596 outdated when designed
@@p-40war-hawk71 and you have no clue..
@@gocatoon4591 i got clue because i'm canadian and your not
@@p-40war-hawk71 uh it's Canadian and actually I am..
ooooohhhhyes