Avro Arrow models search.

[RedSN]

I haven’t heard any updates on the search, but I finally made the trek out to the Orenda Test Ring. After a 40 minute bike ride I reached the Military Aeronautical Communications System (MACS) Transmitter Site at Point Petre.



Across the road from the gated entrance is a dirt road. After a short ride down the road I ditched my bike and headed through the brush. I’m sure glad I had my phone to guide me because it would have been very difficult to find. I finally found the ring...



More scratches through the thick brush I got to the centre...



Can’t get to the concrete pad where they launched the Nike missiles as it’s on the base, but I walked along the shoreline a bit. Here’s where the Arrow models went into the lake...



edit: search is suppose to continue this year, but I assume COVID-19 has put it on the back burner.
https://copanational.org/en/2020/01/30/raise-the-arrow/

The hunt for free-flight models of the legendary AVRO Arrow by the OEX Recovery Group is on again, with an underwater search planned for late spring. The search area will be the bottom of Lake Ontario, in the waters off Prince Edward County’s Point Petre, where flight-testing of scale models of the Arrow took place in the mid-1950s.

[fast Ed]

Some success on this search:


https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...f-lake-ontario

[ZR]

Heck yes.

[Old Fart]

[Rino]

[RedSN]

Three years after they found the DTV, in mid-September 2020, they finally made headway. A sonar image from the lakebed matched the blueprints for the test model’s fuselage. The only problem was that it was in pieces.

Would be neat to build a full scale model of the model from those blueprints.

[Rino]

I would buy it

[fast Ed]

Would be neat to build a full scale model of the model from those blueprints.

You've got all winter Don, get going! Right after you do the H/C/I/ swap on the red car.

[RedSN]

If you can acquire a Nike booster from Keystone for me, I’ll build the model.