Canada was an early player in the development of jet engines. The Orenda engine was tested on a converted Avro Lancaster (the two outboard Merlin engines were replaced with the Orendas). During test ...

The Avro Canada CF-105 “Arrow” was one of the best Cold War fighters you probably never heard of. Was it the ace Canada never played against the Soviet Union? The airplane’s manufacturer raced onto ...

Revolutionary prototype aircraft can take to the air only to not go into serial production due to a range of factors from ...

Aircraft manufacturer Avro Canada had just successfully put into service the CF-100 Canuck, a versatile twinjet fighter designed and built in Canada, and was tasked with developing a vastly more ...

For more than a decade, a team of volunteers at an aviation museum outside of Calgary have been slowly but meticulously constructing a 60 percent scale replica of a supersonic interceptor jet – one ...

A decade after the end of World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age. To mark the ...

The cancellation of the Avro Canada CF-105 interceptor in February 1959 was a traumatic event for Canada's emerging aerospace industry. When Aviation Week reported on the fighter's rollout, in October ...

It was meant to be one of the most advanced aircraft of its era, dispatching the threat of Soviet nuclear bombers and making Canada a world leader in military aviation and engineering. The Avro Arrow, ...