[Holy Shit] They may have found the test model of the freaking Avro Arrow

They're supposed to update in half an hour with more

My grandpa WORKED on that project

Holy shit, the Avro Arrow??

I thought everything was destroyed for... god I can't even remember the reason why anymore.

Essentially because it was going to make a plane the AMerican army had put a lot of money into instantly obsolete

This is a scale model they used for test flights

That was "destroyed" by chucking it in Lake Ontario

...we literally scrapped a plane because the USA whined we were doing too good?

and holy shit

It's never been officially acknowledged but... yeah, that's what happened

There's never been an official explanation beyond some mumblings about the cost

I sent my dad a text just consisting of "AVRO ARROW!" and he responded like I'd actually given context

Oooooooooh

high speed interceptors were considered doctrinaly obsolete at that time, the equivalent american plane got cancelled for the exact same reason