RCAF Avro Arrow 202 - First Flight (RESTORED FOOTAGE)
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2023
- RCAF 25202 (RL202) First Flight - August 1, 1958 with Jan Zurakowski at the controls. Total flight duration was one hour and 35 minutes and reached 30,000 feet.
The original footage was the best I could source on the internet. Over the course of 24 hours, the footage was de-noised, the dust and scratches mostly removed, stabilized, motion blur from camera shake reduced in the air-to-air footage, colour corrected and converted to 60 frames-per-second. - Zábava
wow 1958 footage looks more like the 1980's, incredible
Feels like a dream you don't want to wake up from.
My grandfather designed the landing gear for the Arrow. Awesome to watch it land.
My Gramps did as well. George Evans, he died at 96 years old in 2015
@@jordach545 They probably knew each other.
Avro Arrow can almost hit Mach 2 in 1958 that is unheard of. I am still pissed that Canada abandoned it nothing would have beat it for a long time till Cold War.
The F-106 Delta Dart could do March 2.3 in 1956 .... but sure let's go with "unheard of".
Keep eating that CBC propaganda. The Arrow was a make-work project designed by the Liberal Party to funnel money to their corporate friends... now where have I heard that before?
Not unheard of.
The Arrow's fastest level-flight speed was Mach 1.90 on November 11, 1958. Prior to that, the F-104A attained Mach 2.14 in May of that year. The English Electric Lightning attained Mach 2 in November 1958, the Dassault Mirage III attained Mach 2 in October 1958, the Vought XF8U on August 12, 1958, and the Convair B-58 in June 1957.
say thank you to the americans they are the reason why it was cancel
@@raynus1160 But the Arrow never got to fly with the engines that were designed for it. The J75's only produced 23,000 lbs of thrust each while the Orenda Iroquois were 30,000 lbs of thrust each.
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The Iroquois 2 produced 25,600lbs thrust in afterburner.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orenda_Iroquois
Watching this, I am distracted from the flight of the Arrow by the open countryside around Malton. Even in 1972 it was pretty rural.
This would basically put Canada on the trajectory to Air superiority. Call it Big brother hating on Little Brother for having a cool toy but like I said this would be a big stepping stone into Major innovation in the Aviating Industry in Canada. Lost but never forgotten.
Time has made the Arrow's performance image well beyond reality. It remained a one trick pony with performance comparable with the already operating F106 and a long way behind the F4.
There has always been rumored that one of the Arrows was never destroyed. But hidden on the West Coast
Best Canadian invention period
What has never been explained anywhere, is why Avro Canada did not team up with its parent company in Britain to build this magnificent plane?
Arrow was rejected by the RAF because it wasn't going to be ready when needed. The UK already had BAC Lightning, which became 1 of the greatest fighters in history.
@@winternow2242 The avro wasn't a fighter aircraft...?
@@aspookyscaryskeleton1474 did I say it wasn't? Others might argue that it wasn't a fighter because they distinguish between fighters and interceptors.
It was gigantic ! Physically huge.
Love cf105
I met an individual who worked on this aircraft at the plant. He told me that after the first flight was taken. They received instructions to destroy any and every possible documents related to this aircraft since they were going to stop the production completely.
The reason was America told them not to create any aircraft.
After this , most individuals who were part of this project went to either Nasa or other places which jet fighters were manufactured.
Awesome sauce...
A magnificent aircraft.....!
BUILD A NEW VERSION OF THE AVRO ARROW 😊
Cool plane and new to me 👍✈️
There were many reasons why Canada did not put this amazing aircraft into production. They were working with titanium sections of the airframe for the first time and it was extremely expensive. Just my opinion, but I think they recognized that it was not a financially sustainable project. My other suspicion (speculation) is that the tools and machines specially made to work titanium were secreted away to the SR-71 Blackbird project at the Skunk Works (Lockheed Corp.) in the USA. Again, I have no proof of this but it makes sense to me.
Have you read Ben Rich's book on the Skunk Works? He talks about the problems they had with titanium on the Blackbird, but there's no mention of any Canadian involvement.
The Americans were incredibly helpful with the development of the Arrow (even loaning a B47 bomber and maintenance equipment to Orenda for testing the Iroquois engine)unfortunately time has blurred many of the facts and the CBC movie took many liberties with the facts of the story....I'm Canadian but I also can read and the Americans did not Cancel anything, if the Arrow had been completed it would have been in the U.S. best interests
Actually, if it had been completed, it would have been WAY more financially sustainable, as MANY countries were interested in a Mach2+ capable Fighter jet. As well, the engines would have found their way into even more airframes.
I happened to have an industrial arts teacher who actually worked on this plane. A lot of engineers were recruited for the apolo program, he said on its first flight one of the few things that went wrong was a light indicating an open door malfunctioned. It also Canadian beaumark missles. I read a book (long time ago) and William Stephenson (intrepid) stated that the alliance felt it would be better for canada to take on a more beign image and to use the us products, what that means is open to conjecture. Three generals visited Ottawa and the rest is history. I guess it's a big picture thing.
@@Blue84Stangno, a big problem with the Arrow was it was a one trick pony no one outside of Canada was interested in. The western world moved on to multi-role aircraft. Hence the massive success of the F-4 Phantom, which was developing at the same time as the Arrow.
Beautiful piece of kit. Us in the UK had our equivalent. TSR2. Both potential world beaters. But the Americans put a stop to both.
Yes, of course they did. 🙄
😂😂😂😂😂
It's completely heard of the F4 Phantom was a mach 2.3 in development from 1955 to 1959 ,given the similar design characteristics of the 2 aircraft I find it hard to believe that the USAF and RCAF were not comparing notes through development, the F4 phantom gets the prize for compact design (the Arrow was the size of a B25 Mitchell)
Except, the F4 was a turtle, comparatively...
The F4 was smaller, sure. But with a 0.85 Thrust-to-weight ratio, against the Arrow's 0.91, the F4 would have lost every race.
Does anybody else find it somewhat goofy looking?
Mr Difenbaker, thank you for destroying one of the most historic Canadian made aircraft, plus 30,000 high tech jobs.
This is why Canada can't keep good things.
All I will say
She was beautiful, a victim of politics
With all the crap going on in the world today we need a modern version of this plane
Why so many spaces 😂😂