Long torturous story… the CF-105 was cancelled by the govenment in 1959. General concensus in air-defence circles was it was the age of the missile and so Canada ended up with the BOMARC air defence missile (I’m not going to entertain any of the conspiracy theories). Eventually we ended up with the CF-104 which ended up fulfilling our tactical (including nuclear) strike and reconnaisance role in NATO. Air defence at home was eventually filled with the CF-101 Voodoo along side the venerable CF-100 Canuck both of which soldiered on into the 80s when finally replaced by the Hornet. Hornet officially replaced the CF-101, CF-104 and CF-116 (F-5). By that point the CF-100 was flying in more of a combat support role as an electronic warfare airframe (as well as our last Voodoo.

The last time I was at the Canada Aviation Museum, (before the new hangar and layout) hiding along the south wall were stacked the outer wing panels of one of the CF-105s. That nose is from the only completed Mk2 – RL206 (which never flew). There are a few other pieces on display, now including the only intact Iroquois engine. Also on display previously had been some solid metal aerodynamic models.

The Toronto Aerospace Museum http://www.torontoaerospacemuseum.com/ at Downsview has a full-scale replica of the Arrow in their collection.

Great Arrow reading… ‘Storms of Controversy’, Palmiro Campagna ISBN 0-7737-5861-5

Great Arrow reference (a MUST have)… ‘Arrow’, Boston Mills Press, ISBN 1-55046-0471

Canada Aviation Museum (Arrow)
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/AvroCanadaCF-105Arrow.shtml

James

oh yes!! not much opportunity to see that much over here

Peter,

Any idea as to how many are in use by the snowbird team at this moment…they must have at least one or two reserve aircraft for the team.

The last I understood, they had kept 16 Tutors dedicated for Snowbirds use when they were finally withdrawn… I did see a couple shots last season with one carrying a ’15’ on the tail. (In 1996 they kept 12 airworthy – 9 plus 3 for coordinators)

Nice shots Canuck, I live an hour from the CAM and haven’t been through since 2003. Its great to see what they’ve done to the place. Just curious about that CF-100 – was that the one previously painted as the Prototype? Last word I had (from inside) was that another CF-100 was to be mounted outside the entrance. That aircraft had been sitting on the north side of the building in pieces – it may have been the one formerly plinth-mounted at ex-CFB Uplands.

WOW! I want to live there instead

K-8

From what I’ve been reading/finding…

JL-8 Chinese domestic
K-8 export
K-8E Egyptian licence-production
K-8TDA Chinese research with fly-by-wire

Deliveries (orders)

PR China – 30
Pakistan – 8 (74)
Egypt – 80 – Licence production K-8E
Morocco – 20
Myanmar – 12
Sri Lanka – 6
Zambia – 8
Namibia – 4
Zimbabwe – 6
Kenya – ??

Plus a few pics

People’s Liberation Army Air Force, Pakistan, Zambia, Myanmar, Egypt (training), Egypt (Silver Eagles aerobatic team), Sri Lanka

Didn’t the RAAF get one of the Luftwaffe’s A300 tankers?? (converted at the same time as the Can Force ones I think)

mmmm, verrrry nice indeed

Only the Tu-95? If so, why?

All Soviet aircraft we built like that… call it wishful thinking or forward planning – in the eventuality of conflict with the West, any quickly over-run/occupied territory and hence equipent could be used to service the Soviet aircraft… Fuel, Oxygen, tow-bars etc

Apologies for the off-topic pics – they’re just to illustrate…
Russian Il-76, Ottawa 1990… Canadian Forces cart – hiding under wing (although they did bring their own tow-bars for the MiGs)
Ukraine MiG-29, Trenton 1992…. Canadian Forces cart