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 The Avro Arrow: Canada's Broken Dream |
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It's the closest thing Canadian industry has to a love story and a murder mystery. The Avro Arrow, a sleek white jet interceptor developed in Malton, Ontario in the 1950s, could have been many things. It might have become the fastest plane in the world, our best defence against Soviet bombers, the catalyst to propel Canada to the forefront of the aviation industry. Instead, it became a $400-million pile of scrap metal, and the stuff of legends. |
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 To catch Soviet bombers, the Royal Canadian Air Force puts out the call for a jet that will fly faster, higher and further than anything on the market. (TV; runs 2:33) |
 The first sleek white Avro Arrow is unveiled in front of a crowd of 12,000 at the Avro Plant in Malton. But the Russians unveil something of their own. (TV; runs 0:34) |
 Canada's first supersonic fighter plane makes its triumphant first flight. (TV; runs 4:06) |
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 The Bomarc missile casts a shadow over the Avro Arrow as Canada enters the missile age. (TV; runs 2:46) |
 Prime Minister John Diefenbaker has some bad news for Avro, but Avro president Crawford Gordon puts on a brave face. (TV; runs 0:57) |
 Shocking Parliament and Avro employees, Diefenbaker announces the Arrow and Iroquois engine programs are cancelled immediately. (Radio; runs 5:48) |
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 Despite the huge impact the Avro Arrow's cancellation will have on Canadian industry and defence, opposition leaders won't criticize the decision. (Radio; runs 2:18) |
 14,525 shocked Avro workers are terminated at once. As they leave, they express their anger to CBC reporters. (Radio; runs 3:13) |
 In an astonishing act of devastation, all traces of the Avro Arrow are ordered destroyed. (Radio; runs 1:48) |
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 In the months following Black Friday, Avro's team of world-class engineers find jobs south of the border. (TV; runs 1:17) |
 More than three decades after the Arrow's first flight, the doomed plane is suddenly popular again. (Radio; runs 8:14) |
 Historian Michael Bliss and broadcaster and former Avro employee Elwy Yost go head to head on what the Arrow meant to Canada. (Radio; runs 10:07) |
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