When people think of fighter jets, images of heroic American pilots usually comes to mind. Crying eagles, waving flags… the whole bit. You see, the USA does indeed have a massive air-force, and the most sophisticated aircraft technology on the planet to boot – but did you know that Canada helped kick off this superiority in a massive way?
In 1953, at the height of the cold war, a Canadian company called Avro started designing a new interceptor aircraft called the CF-105 Arrow. Their plan was to create an interceptor capable of repelling the


