Hunting for a Canadian Legend: the Avro Arrow Jet Fighter
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Hunting for a Canadian Legend: the Avro Arrow Jet Fighter
13, 2017
LAKE ONTARIO, Canada — The marina here on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, in Prince Edward County, had attracted an unusually large crowd of people
and dogs from a nearby campground, gawking as a flatbed truck arrived with an autonomous submarine, the ThunderFish Alpha.
CANADA Montreal Ontario Prince Edward County St. Lawrence R. Toronto Quinte’s Isle Campark Lake Ontario NEW YORK 50 Miles SEPT. 13, 2017
It will be well into next year before a plan is fully developed to safely lift and stabilize the model.
The submarine, equipped with a high-resolution sonar system, was on a mission — to search for nine test models of a Canadian legend, the Avro Arrow supersonic military jet,
that have been resting deep in the lake since the Cold War era.
Randall Wakelam said that We probably did have the world’s best supersonic fighter jet in principle,
That’s why I’m so interested in it." Many other Canadians born long after blowtorches were used to cut up the planes also know the story and lament what could have been, stoking the idea, sometimes verging on conspiracy theory,
that the Arrow’s cancellation is an example of the United States thwarting a Canadian ambition.
Mr. Burzynski said that We were looking for something to do in our spare time,
13, 2017
LAKE ONTARIO, Canada — The marina here on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, in Prince Edward County, had attracted an unusually large crowd of people
and dogs from a nearby campground, gawking as a flatbed truck arrived with an autonomous submarine, the ThunderFish Alpha.
CANADA Montreal Ontario Prince Edward County St. Lawrence R. Toronto Quinte’s Isle Campark Lake Ontario NEW YORK 50 Miles SEPT. 13, 2017
It will be well into next year before a plan is fully developed to safely lift and stabilize the model.
The submarine, equipped with a high-resolution sonar system, was on a mission — to search for nine test models of a Canadian legend, the Avro Arrow supersonic military jet,
that have been resting deep in the lake since the Cold War era.
Randall Wakelam said that We probably did have the world’s best supersonic fighter jet in principle,
That’s why I’m so interested in it." Many other Canadians born long after blowtorches were used to cut up the planes also know the story and lament what could have been, stoking the idea, sometimes verging on conspiracy theory,
that the Arrow’s cancellation is an example of the United States thwarting a Canadian ambition.
Mr. Burzynski said that We were looking for something to do in our spare time,