Avro Arrow

All the world loves a conspiracy theory……

Did you hear about the TSR-2 that is stored in a secret underground bunker at a remote airfield in the wilds of Scotland…………………………….?
Same place the US Aurora visits regularly- always when there’s nobody around.

🙂

I thought that one went with the Stirling to Russia/China 🙂

Yeah, Steve is correct… RL202 is as dead as all the rest of those lovely white birds.

All the world loves a conspiracy theory……

Did you hear about the TSR-2 that is stored in a secret underground bunker at a remote airfield in the wilds of Scotland…………………………….?
Same place the US Aurora visits regularly- always when there’s nobody around.

🙂

Cor! Will it be at Legends?

Yeah, I’m with Peter on this one, romantic though the notion of an escaped Arrow is…as is stated even in the CTV piece the seats would’ve been two of the first items stripped. (I’ve got a Martin Baker bang seat in my loft; it too was one of a matched pair, in this case from a Victor K.2 tanker, but the fact that two collectors in this area acquired the seats does not mean either of us, or anyone else, managed to preserve the entire Victor!)

Neat to see the reference to the missing Arrow 1, 25202, in some of the aerial photos of the scrapping. I have constructed a nifty story about that airframe being smuggled down to Groom Lake as a lead-in trainer for the YF-12/SR-71 program…and being scrapped in 1966 when no longer needed. But that’s pure fantasy. 202 was probably cut up inside the plant, as she’d been in there for months under repair after a gear collapse took her out of the flight test program…

Still, as a Canuck who loves flying machines…somebody over ‘ome, please prove me wrong… 🙂

S.

I don’t think one ever left the company, the seats might have but not an airframe!

Avro Arrow,Tsr2 makes you wonder what could have been.

Don McBrearty was apparently the name of the director of the flick where the replica was severely damaged. I mention it (thanks to imdb) so that forumites can avoid any other films they find him connected with.

We could argue that it’s now truly a replica, having undergone the same treatment as the original Arrow…;)

The one in Downsview may be “out in the cold” soon, too, unless the Museum, the Government and the Developers come to some sort of agreement.

Don McBrearty was apparently the name of the director of the flick where the replica was severely damaged. I mention it (thanks to imdb) so that forumites can avoid any other films they find him connected with.

Ahhh Cool thanks for that, I never read the link, looks like it has finally found a home, so glad it was saved and is a testement to one mans dream, who knows what he would of went onto if he had got his dream job.

Don’t forget the full size replica built in Canada by one man, he started with the cockpit, thought might as well do the fuselage etc and in the end built the whole thing, it took him years as a labour of love..a film company borrowed it to make a film about the Arrow and without his permission which would never of been given cut it up in a final act of vandalism, as was done to the real thing….. the owner was gutted and I still don’t know the outcome……. I would have if I had my way made the Film Company proffessionally rebuild it for the owner, then destroy all their film stocks of it…

Tony, that’s the one I linked to in post #2 above.

..a film company borrowed it to make a film about the Arrow and without his permission which would never of been given cut it up in a final act of vandalism, as was done to the real thing…

A film company using one of my Spitfires remarked that the producer would think nothing of demolishing it if required. On a set, I think replicas can be vunerable if left unattended!:cool:

Baz

A nice bit on the Arrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuZtk8uPP0

Baz

Don’t forget the full size replica built in Canada by one man, he started with the cockpit, thought might as well do the fuselage etc and in the end built the whole thing, it took him years as a labour of love..a film company borrowed it to make a film about the Arrow and without his permission which would never of been given cut it up in a final act of vandalism, as was done to the real thing….. the owner was gutted and I still don’t know the outcome……. I would have if I had my way made the Film Company proffessionally rebuild it for the owner, then destroy all their film stocks of it…

Is the missing arrow in hiding in Yorkshire?

There appears to be a second full-scale replica in storage at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum: http://www.avroarrow.org/AvroArrow/replica.html