With its first flight in 1958, the Avro Aircraft CF-105 Arrow appeared to be Canada\'s greatest aeronautical achievement.
Also during the mid-1950\'s, the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 27 fighter jet squadrons assigned to NATO and NORAD, was respected as one of the great air forces in the wester.
As the world\'s fastest and most advanced aircraft at that time, the Arrow, flying at twice the speed of sound over the Canadian north, was to attack Soviet bombers with air-to-air nuclear missiles.
With its first flight in 1958, the Avro Aircraft CF-105 Arrow appeared to be Canada\'s greatest aeronautical achievement