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The A.V. Roe Canada story is preserved here through text
records and image collections. It is hoped that this effort
suitably acknowledges the effort of those Canadians who
designed, built and flew Canada's Jetliner, Canuck and
Arrow.
The Avro Jetliner, for which all passenger jets are named, PHOTO CREDIT: Victor Deng
was the first passenger jet to fly in North America by Victor Deng the new student intern at Canada Aviation
some ten years. It was a signifanaicant achievement in and Space Museum
that it doubled the altitude and tripled the speed of Working in an environment that’s full of airplanes
transport aircraft of the day. Canada's lead was lost has been my dream since childhood. So, when I
when the Canadian Government of the day refused to let learned that a summer internship at the Canada
Avro put the aircraft into production, a decision that led Aviation and Space Museum was a possibility, I
to the prototype aircraft being destroyed. jumped at the chance.
The Avro Canuck was the only Canadian designed fighter For the next 4 weeks, I’ll be working with the
aircraft to go into service with the Royal Canadian Air museum’s science advisor, Jesse Rogerson. My
Force and Nato. As with all fighter aircraft, it eventually friend Mohamed, who was an intern at the
fell victim to new technological advances and was museum last year, told me a lot about the personal
decommissioned in 1962. weather station project that he completed, which
made me even more excited to start the internship
The Avro Arrow interceptor , designed to intercept
and start my own cool project. Jesse and I chatted
enemy bombers over the Canadian arctic during the Cold
about possible projects prior to the start of the
War was acclaimed a significant achievement in super-
sonic flight. The Arrow was ultimately cancelled in internship. We came up with some very interesting
ideas but in the end, we settled on making a model
development by the Canadian Government who came to
aircraft that can be used to explain how pilots
believe manned interceptors were obsolete in the age of
missiles, and ordered all evidence of it destroyed. control aircraft.
Since I am an aviation nerd, I already have some
The fact that only a few pieces of the Jetliner and Arrow
knowledge on how this is done. Pilots are able to
remain to mark Canadian achievement is what makes
preserving this portion of Canadian aviation history so control the aircraft with moving parts on the
aircraft called control surfaces. Through the
important.
movement of these control surfaces, the direction
of the plane is affected. Currently, the museum
offers a Cessna 150 demonstration, where the
guides explain how the control surfaces work in an
interactive way. However, it’s hard to see the
movement of the control surface when you’re
sitting in the cockpit during the demo. So it would
be very helpful to have a hands-on model with
moveable control surfaces, to assist in explaining
how control surfaces work.
