50th Anniversary of the first flight of Canada's Avro Arrow

Tuesday March 25 /08 - 50th anniversary
of the first flight of Canada’s Avro Arrow……

Calgary’s Avro Museum would like to remind Canadians that on this day fifty years ago Canada’s Avro Arrow took to the air for the first time. Declared by the aeronautics industry of the day as the most advanced military aircraft of its time, it was nonetheless cancelled by government during testing and ordered destroyed.

While the Arrow itself has become legend and has long been a subject of controversy in the intervening years, it remains an icon of Canadian technical / aeronautical achievement. We would like to mark this, the 50th anniversary of the first flight, with a belated public acknowledgement of the underlying achievements of the thousands of Canadians who laboured on this project to defend Canada and North America during the East-West Cold War of the 1950’s.

Their effort made Canada, for a short time, a world leader in advanced aeronautical development and a ranking military power, for that they deserve our praise and thanks.

Doug Hyslip

President
avromuseum.ca