ALL! …that remains :::...
ALL that remains…
… of our beloved Arrows.
Arrow 206.
Arrow 206 NEVER flew.
But of all the completed Arrows… she was the ONLY ONE fitted with those MIGHTY and now LEGENDARY, Canadian, ORENDA IROQUOIS engines.
And Arrow 206 was just hours away from her maiden flight when AVRO received the government’s senseless order to destroy HER and all other existing Arrows!
Just HOW MANY Arrows were scrapped?
27.
TEN complete Arrows.
Seventeen in various stages of completion, with parts in existence to complete each one.
HERE SHE IS, 206, forever perched above the admiring crowds at the Canadian Aviation Museum, formerly RCAF Station Rockcliffe (where I was born, incidentally).
A beautiful, and silent, songbird from that era in Canadian history when Canadians could achieve anything… just because we wanted to.
MADE IN TORONTO.
MADE IN CANADA.
And in 1959… there was nothin’ better.
Anywhere.
♫ ♫ LAMENT our lost Arrows ~
‘nuff said–
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