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Hlodowig escribió:Asimismo, imbuido del espíritu navideño y aprovechando el reciente estreno en la gran pantalla de una nueva película de la saga, un pequeño presente para los frikis del foro...

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‘Still time for a Christmas Pressie’
Derek Blois

Un saludo

Hlodowig escribió:Feliz Navidad para todos

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Apónez escribió:Pero bueno, V.M también siguiendo a un falso emperador....

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Hlodowig escribió:Feliz Navidad para todos

Y VM que lo vea con salud.

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Joven, póngase la banderita derecha, ¡rediós!.

El Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow fue un interceptor de ala delta, diseñado y construido por Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) en Malton, Ontario, Canadá, como una culminación de diseño que se empezó a estudiar en 1953. El avión se consideraba un logro, tanto en avance tecnológico como en aerodinámica para la industria aeronáutica canadiense. El CF-105 podría llegar a velocidades de Mach 2 a alturas superiores a 15 000 m (50 000 pies), y estaba destinado a servir en la Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), como su principal interceptor en la década de 1960 y en las siguientes.

No mucho tiempo después del inicio de la pruebas de vuelo en 1958, el desarrollo del Arrow (incluyendo los motores jet Orenda Iroquois) se detuvo en una abrupta y polémica revisión del proyecto lo que desató un largo y amargo debate político.

La controversia generada por la cancelación y posterior destrucción de la aeronave en producción, sigue siendo un tema de debate entre los historiadores, analistas políticos y expertos de la industria aeronáutica. "Esta acción produjo poner fuera del negocio a Avro y a su ingeniería altamente calificada junto con la dispersión de sus trabajadores, en una situación muy polémica que continua hasta el día de hoy. El incidente fue una lesión traumática y hasta la fecha, muchos lamentan la pérdida del Arrow."

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

The high point of aviation in Canada - cancelled by government stupidity. At the time, it was certainly the most advanced aircraft in the world. The cancellation of the project put over 20,000 highly skilled people out of work, many of whom went to work for the US on the Space Program. A case could be made that, perhaps we couldn't afford an aircraft this sophisticated but...the Diefenbaker Conservative government ordered all the existing aircraft to be cut up and sold as scrap - when various buyers were offering to buy them at market value! This was a mind boggling act of vandalism.

If I wasn't a taxpayer, I'd be amused by the fact that the present day Conservatives are about to get a pasting on the purchase of the American F-35s!

http://www.lancerusswurm.com/aviationart/arrow201.html

Hlodowig escribió:Más detalles, en la página en inglis

On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow jet-fighter interceptor program. The Arrow's mounting costs, technical delays and government budget reductions contributed to its demise. Often referred to as Canada's greatest contribution to modern high-performance aeronautics, the Arrow's elimination resulted in the immediate dismissal of 14,000 employees at Avro Canada, including engineers who went on to work on the U.S. space program. The public then, and since, have lamented Diefenbaker's decision.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1023187/

The Avro Arrow, a legendary Canadian design that experienced a turbulent and short ascent when the program ultimately was scrapped. The background is befitting it's story.

“Echelon Arrows”

It sounds like a Spielberg script . . . but it really happened!

On March 25, 1958 a tremendous roar was heard through the northern suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. No one could have known, that day, its echo would last 40 years into the future and grow louder and louder, against all the normal laws of nature.

That momentous sound and event started as Jan "Zura" Zurakowski advanced the twin throttles of the first Canadian made supersonic aircraft, the Avro Arrow, on its maiden from Downsview Airport.

The plane was incredible, its performance, along with the normally expected evolution, would have most certainly kept it at the leading edge of aviation technology for many decades. It was huge, over 90 feet long, and had a bomb bay larger than that of a B-29 Super-Fortress. It was fast, the aircraft by far out performed everything that the world had to compare it to.

I dedicate this painting to the 15,000 or more Canadians who gave millions of honest hard working hours toward this ill-fated project. I wish to present to them and to all Canadians "Echelon Arrows" in their first formation flight over the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains.

On February 2nd, 1959 a Trans Canada Airlines Viscount landed 'wheels up' at Malton, blocking the main runway. Test Pilot Peter Cope diverted to Trenton - the only time the Avro Arrow landed anywhere but at Malton. The Aircraft stayed overnight and departed with "Spud" Potocki at the controls the next morning.