The Arrow

The Arrow DVD cover.

TV Movie (1996)
French title : Projet Arrow

Starring:
Dan Aykroyd (Crawford Gordon Jr)
Sara Botsford (Kate O'Hara (fictional))
Aidan Devine (Jim Chamberlin)
Nigel Bennett (James C. Floyd)

1953 : After several success (CF-100 and C102), AVRO Canada starts the study of a Mach 2 class fighter in order to face the new soviet threat of strategic bombers.

Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck

A R/C model first. To act as the Mark 4 breaking the sound barrier.

Archives footage too.

From a promotional documentary about "A. V. ROE Canada Limited".

Throughout the movie, posters, desk models and sometimes real airframe backgrounded can be seen.

Tupolev Tu-95

Named Tu-20 as intelligence service did it at the time.

A later variant (note the CF-100 poster at the left of the screen).

Tupolev Tu-16

The general speaks of the Ilyushin Il-22 which was different (4 jet engines on a straight wing)... and was cancelled on 22 September 1947.

Cartoon's Shapes

Myasishchev Bison

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

With the horizontal stabilizer of a Boeing B-47 !

Lockheed F-94 Starfire

A loosely inspired shape as wings should be straight, not trapezoidal. Horizontal stabilizer is uncorrect too.

Wall Posters

Avro Anson

Avro Lancaster

Avro Canada C102 Jetliner

Only one airframe built and successfuly flew under registration CF-EJD-X.

Avro 691 Lancastrian

Not listed by Mr Gordon despite six of them were built by Avro Canada during WW2.

Avro Canada C102 Jetliner

Cancelled in order to keep full industrial capacities to the CF-100.

Beechcraft Expeditor Mk 3NMT

Serial « 1477 » (c/n CA-52) on duty with RCAF from 18 December 1951 to 06 May 1970. Now hosted by the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Testbed Rocket Launcher

Avro Canada CF-105

Sometimes, archive and promotional footages.

Sometimes 1:1 scale model by Allan Jackson.

Post-production (?) skinned with RL 202 serial.

... or RL 206 (which in fact was nearly to roll out at the cancellation date).

This replica is now part of the Reynolds-Alberta Museum (Wetaskiwin, Alberta) but no more exposed following wind damages in 2009.

Douglas DC-3

Sputnik Launcher

Launcher of Sputnik. In 1957, USSR never broadcasted such pictures of the top secret rocket, ahead occidental projects !

North American (T-6) Harvard

Boeing B-47 Stratojet

Became the CL-52, serial X-059 for Canadian Authorities. Not said or shown by this TV movie, it was used for the trials of the Orenda Iroquois engine.