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Canada built 692 and the jet sewed until dissolved in 1962. ight _\('iifs ago, David Waechter found an old filing 1981, The Arrow would have been Canada's first supersonic jet cabinet tucked away in his parents’ Collingwood In 1953. the ROW issued a request foran all-weather mil. had it gone into mass production. powered by the Canard home \\aechtt~r's mother. lorraine, had just died itary aircraft capable of Mach 1.5 (1.800 kilometres per hour) an-designed Orenda lroquoisjet turbine. and he was ht'lplng move his father. Ralph, back to his at 50.000 feet. lust four years later. Oct. 4. 1957. the Arrow in simulators. the jet attained a forward speed of Mach - ' i hometown of km hener. was introduced to the public. h was the same day the Rus- 2.3 (2M hut/h) at analtitudeofmfll) feet (21300 metres). _ 1 The unaxsllllllng box uncmerod in 2007 held fragments sians launched Sputnik i. the firstartificial satelliteinspaoe. At the time that would have been the fastest airspeed ever of(‘anadian (Whitinn history: St'vt-n binders and 260 pages of Ralph worked on airspeed measurement and mach recorded. During actual test flights, the plane reached a notes. flight data, schematics and photographs of one of meters in the aircraft. and his notes included calculations of maximum speed of Mach 1.9 (2,300 kmlh) while in level (anada's most llllpflfldnl technological developments â€" the wind speed. drag technical calibrations and other informa- flight at 50.0ch and Mach 1.95 in adive. As’ro Arrow and two other ](‘15 Avro (anada had devel~ tion. many of them stamped “Top Secret” but declassified by A growing conspiracy has emerged around the Arrow. oped in the Liti- Nuns and throughout the 1950s the government in the decades since. including Prime Minister lohn Diefenbaker’s true motiva- I Waechters lulht't, who died in 2011, was an acmnautical live Mark I Arrows rolled off the assembly line and (ions for cancelling the project. Some have suggested the . engineer for s\\ m from 1948 to 1959 and worked on the com? another 29 Mark 2 models with even more powerful cnflrtes Americans pushed tohave the program killed because they pany’s three most famous projects â€"â€" the (102 Avro jelliner, were scheduled to be built when the government suddenly didm want toloseprestige to theCanadians the (111100 ( dlllll k interceptor and the ( 1102 interceptor. cancelled the entireArrow project on Feb. 20, 1959. Waechter. who was only two years old when the Arrow commonly known as the Avro Arrow Known as "Black Friday." nearly 14.000 employees were was scrapped, said his father rarely spoke about it. “He didn't The death of his father prompted Wat-chter. himself an told to go home. and the jets and argues that were already wear his polities on his sleeve. He was very pragmatic," he _ electrical engineer mlh a Phi) from (aileron University. to built or were near completion werescrapped. said. "He was never a conspiracy theory guy." research the planes using his father's notes and drawings as Some engineers were reas- But Ralph’s sites. Gertrude Cullen, said he was “devaat- a starting point. [he result ma new book. Night Test: theAivm signed to other projects. but ed” by the news, mostly for the thousands of men and Arrowand a (an?! in Aeronautical Engineering. many of the best were lured to the women put out of work. Ralph went on to work for Ameri- "I found it was fascinating material." said Waechter diir- United Kingdom and the United can Aldines. the private consulting firm Aero Performnce ing the book launch at Wing 404 in Waterloo last Friday. States. now known as the brain drain. Inc.. the British de Havilland Aircraft Company and When Ralph graduated from the University ofTomnto in 4, ' Many worked with the newly Canadalr (nowpart ofBombardier) before retiringln was. 1948 he got a job at Avro working at their plant in Malton. v fomied NASA space program and played in the decades that have passed since Black Friday. the now home to Pearson lntemarional Airport at key role in helping the Americans reach Arrow continues toe-pture the Minions of Canadhna lie started working on the Avro it-tlint-r. which in the moon. “There's a lot of national pride caught up in ll.’ said ' [9&9 became the world's second tornmr-rcial jet A The Canadian government blamed Cost chhter. airliner. ’ overruns for the cancellation of the project. while For more infonnation or to order a copy of the book. visit i The jetliiivr was a flop, despite an aggressive others believe new long'range missile technology www.lnnerscale.oom or callVolumes Direct. 519-5714“. 1 marketing campaign in (anada and the Ilnit- t ed States. and sales flounderr-d . ‘ By 1950. the hurt-an War . 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