Underwater car probes inlet of Lake Ontario for long-missing Avro Arrow indication planes
A renewed bid to find blank Avro Arrow indication planes, believed to be during a bottom of Lake Ontario given a 1950s, launches Friday.
An underwater car will be sent into Lake Ontario by a Raise a Arrow project, a partnership between several private companies that are operative with a assistance of a Canadian Coast Guard and a Royal Canadian Military Institute.
The Thunderfish autonomous underwater vehicle, a programmable submarine, will consult the section of a lake where a models are believed to be.Â
The Avro Arrow was a initial and usually supersonic interceptor built by a Canadian military, grown in a mid-1950s to respond to Soviet bombers targeting North America’s Arctic.
In 1959, a module was abruptly cancelled and all materials associated to it were destroyed.
The Avro Arrow was built to prevent Soviet bombers that competence have entered North American airspace over a North Pole during a Cold War – until a Arrow module was abruptly scrapped in 1959. (Avro Museum)
The Avro Arrow models, scaled during one-eighth a distance of a tangible plane, are suspicion to have been launched over a lake in a mid-50s.Â
If recovered, a models will find homes during a Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa and a National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ont.
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