FOR A BRIEF WHILE, the CF-100 was the only all-weather fighter jet stationed in Europe for NATO.
About a year and a half.
Everyone else's fighter was a FAIR WEATHER fighter only.
Now, you know.
(The LARGE SIZE of this photo is…well…REALLY LARGE!!)
HERE!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/78215847@N00/5186381677/sizes/o/in/photostream/
WE CAN NEVER forget the Canuck… for if we do, we have lost it.
Entirely.
As an air force?
No. As a nation—
The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck (the "Clunk", as we Canadians loved to call it) …was not a bad design, nor, was it a great design.
But IT WAS our design.
Canadian.
Canada's first homegrown all-weather jet interceptor.
"But Arrow, ARROW… most Canadians don't know a lick about the Canuck!"
"They don't even know almost 700 were made right in Toronto."
Point taken~
"Then… really, there is only one thing left to do."
"What Arrow, what?"
Well, for them…
CN Tower. Observation Deck.
Gate open. Jump.
NOT WIDELY known: The Canadian Air & Space Museum located in Downsview Park, in TORONTO, at the former de Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada manufacturing plant is looking for a CF-100 to add to their Toronto aviation-themed museum.
So IF YOU have a Canuck, or can get one for them, call today: 416-638-6078
