Maushake Posted July 15, 2017 Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 A friend of mine works for the sonar company involved in this project to retrieve some remnants of Canadian aviation history: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/a-new-hunt-for-avro-arrow-models-in-the-depths-of-lake-ontario-this-time-the-search-will-be-different-1.4205184 J5_Hotlead, Snaggle, Klaiber and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britchot Posted July 15, 2017 Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 An interesting method of destruction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butzzell Posted July 16, 2017 Report Share Posted July 16, 2017 An interesting method of destruction. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britchot Posted July 16, 2017 Report Share Posted July 16, 2017 I misread it, I thought they were destroyed by firing them into the lake. Klaiber 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maushake Posted September 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Update on this story for anyone interested: they've found one! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/avro-arrow-found-unveiling-1.4280537 Britchot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kliegmann Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Seems odd to me, especially during that time period, and the described mission of the aircraft that anyone within the government would summarily order the destruction of the aircraft. Has the REAL reason ever been declassified or become public record? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maushake Posted September 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 I think part of the reason for the destruction of all existing aircraft was fear that the Soviets had got a spy somewhere on the inside; after the cancellation of the programme, it was thus considered best to get rid of everything. And when the Mitrokhin archive was released in the 90s, it turned out that the Soviets had indeed apparently got hold of some of the plans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britchot Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 This story hit the NYT the other day: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/world/canada/avro-arrow-jet-.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/DVW49Aon7h?amp=1 Karl Spackler and Maushake 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Spackler Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 A two-part series with Dan Akroyd? I got time for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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