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unusual facts about Avro Arrow



Duncan Macpherson

One of Macpherson's most celebrated cartoons featured John Diefenbaker as Marie Antoinette saying "Let them eat cake," after Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro Arrow project and its 14,000 jobs.

Ethel Flora Fortune

In the 1950s her son was responsible for producing the prototype of the Avro Arrow aircraft.


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Janusz Żurakowski

On 20 February 1959, the infamous "Black Friday", Żurakowski, along with the approximately 15,000 employees of Avro and Orenda plants learned that the Diefenbaker government had precipitously cancelled the Avro Arrow program and its Orenda Iroquois engine.