Morningside
Arrow mania
Broadcast Date: April 1, 1991
More than 30 years after the Arrow met its demise, "Arrow heads" across Canada are rebuilding the legend. Arrow books and movies are being written, replicas are being built, and parts of the plane are turning up after years of concealment. On CBC Radio's Morningside, Peter Gzowski finds out about the plane's popularity by talking to Arrow fans including journalist June Callwood, who believes that one Arrow may have escaped.Arrow mania
• In 2002, volunteers at the Toronto Aerospace Museum were building a full-scale, all metal replica of the Avro Arrow. It won't fly, but it is designed to taxi along at six kilometres an hour.• Another initiative, the "Arrow 2000 Project," hopes to build a flying 2/3-scale replica of the Avro Arrow.
• During the testing period of the Arrow's construction, nine 1/8-scale magnesium alloy models of the plane were launched from Nike missiles into the skies over Lake Ontario. In recent years, several groups have hunted for the models on the lake bottom, and at least two have been found.
• There are many legends of a lone Arrow escaping destruction. In addition to Callwood's speculation about an Iroquois-equipped arrow flying away at dawn, there are tales of an Arrow being spirited away on a covered flatbed truck. Some say that RL-202 cannot be seen in the aerial photos of the destruction, and may have been being fitted with missiles at a different location. None of these stories can be confirmed.
Arrow mania
Medium: Radio
Program: Morningside
Broadcast Date: April 1, 1991
Guest(s): June Callwood, David Onley
Host: Peter Gzowski
Duration: 8:14
Photo: Toronto Aerospace Museum
Last updated:
Aug. 12, 2002
I can remember as a boy seeing Jan Zurocowski at the Farnborough Air Show scaring the spectators by flying a Gloster Meteor backwards. This was acheived by going into a vertical climb, turning the engines off and plummitting towards the ground steering with the tailplane before flipping over and diving noes first to restart the engines and pulling out very close to the runway.
This was also at the time when it was routine for all transonic planes to demonstrate their abilities by going through the sound barrier over the heads of the crowd. Ah! Those were the days
Submitted by: michaelcanberra