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Elizabeth Howell

How Canada is preserving what remains of its iconic supersonic Avro Arrow jet

A jet plane landing on a runway accompanied by another plane behind it, in mid-air. the image is in black and white due to age. bare trees are visible in the background.

Six decades after the supersonic Avro Arrow suddenly stopped flying, Canada is working hard to preserve what few pieces of it are left.

The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow (known as the Arrow among its fans) was one of the most advanced supersonic jets of its era in the 1950s. It even has a link with NASA across the border, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia. But the Arrow program's funding was nixed in 1959 in a still-controversial decision by the Canadian government of the day, led by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

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