Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical information. Was abandoning the program the right decision? Did Canada lose more than it gained? Brimming with information to fill in gaps in the Arrows troubled history, and with an update on the latest search for the scale models launched deliberately into Lake Ontario as part of the test program,The Avro Arrow tackles the outstanding questions head on.

Palmiro Campagna is the author ofStorms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed,Requiem for A Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow, andThe UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed. He lives in Ottawa.

PrefaceChapter 1: A Future LostChapter 2: Was the Arrow That Good?Chapter 3: Why Was the Arrow Program Terminated?Chapter 4: What Did the Arrow Program Cost?Chapter 5: Who Ordered the Blowtorching and Why Was Everyone Fired?ConclusionPostscriptAppendix A: Some Notes on the Flight Controls and Stability Augmentation System in the Avro Canada CF-105 ArrowAppendix B: Avro to NASAAppendix C: Selected FiguresAppendix D: Selected DocumentsAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyPhoto CreditsIndex