The CF-105 originated from a 1952 requirement from the Royal Canadian Air Force, which led to an order for 37 development and pre series aircraft. The first five, known as Arrow Mk 1s, were powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney J75-P-3 or -5 turbojets, each rated at 12,500lb st dry and 18,500lb st with afterburner. The remaining aircraft, as Arrow Mk 2s, would have been fitted with Orenda PS-13 Iroquois turbojets rated at 19,250lb st dry and 26,000lb st with afterburning. The aircraft would have carried an internal load of six Falcon or eight Sparrow AAMs.
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| - The CF-105 originated from a 1952 requirement from the Royal Canadian Air Force, which led to an order for 37 development and pre series aircraft. The first five, known as Arrow Mk 1s, were powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney J75-P-3 or -5 turbojets, each rated at 12,500lb st dry and 18,500lb st with afterburner. The remaining aircraft, as Arrow Mk 2s, would have been fitted with Orenda PS-13 Iroquois turbojets rated at 19,250lb st dry and 26,000lb st with afterburning. The aircraft would have carried an internal load of six Falcon or eight Sparrow AAMs.
- The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Canada as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. Considered to be both an advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement for the Canadian aviation industry, the CF-105 (Mark 2) held the promise of near Mach 3 speeds at altitudes likely exceeding 60,000 ft. (18,000 m), and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) primary interceptor in the 1960s and beyond.
- In the post-World War II period, the Soviet Union began developing a fleet of long-range bombers capable of delivering nookz and cowbell to North America and Norway. To counter this threat, Western countries developed interceptor aircraft that could find and kill these bombers before they reached their targets. At the time in Canada, the equality of Native Americans among whiteys was being pushed, so all the Natives were polled to decide the name for the aircraft. "Arrow" won the contest narrowly, beating out the Avro Beer, the Avro Smokes and the Avro Land Claims Court Settlement.
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| - at 50,000 ft max. recorded speed; Mach 2+ potential
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| - Up to 8× AIM-4 Falcon, Canadair Velvet Glove or 3 AIM-7 Sparrow II 2D active guidance missiles
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| - * Hughes MX-1179 fire control system
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| - (Designer James C. Floyd.)
- (Jack Woodman, the only RCAF pilot to fly the Arrow. )
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| - "The aircraft, at supersonic speeds, was pleasant and easy to fly. During approach and landing, the handling characteristics were considered good ... On my second flight ... the general handling characteristics of the Arrow Mark 1 were much improved ... On my sixth and last flight ... the erratic control in the rolling plane, encountered on the last flight, [was] no longer there ... Excellent progress was being made in the development ... from where I sat the Arrow was performing as predicted and was meeting all guarantees."
- "At the time we laid down the design of the CF-105, there was a somewhat emotional controversy going on in the United States on the relative merits of the delta plan form versus the straight wing for supersonic aircraft... our choice of a tailless delta was based mainly on the compromise of attempting to achieve structural and aero elastic efficiency, with a very thin wing, and yet, at the same time, achieving the large internal fuel capacity required for the specified range."
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