Page 27 - March 2019

Movie Pick of the Month

The Arrow II has landed!

…… albeit on its cradle! Another year has gone by and
with it over 3,000 volunteer hours contributed to the
Avro Museum projects. A lot has been accomplished
such that by year end, we were in a position to rotate
the fuselage for the last time, setting it on its cradles
so that we can begin attaching the delta wing. This was
started during February co-incident with recognizing
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the 60 anniversary of the cancellation of the Avro
Arrow program.

(Click Poster to watch movie)

Cloud Dancer
is a 1980 aviation drama film directed by Barry
Brown. The film stars David Carradine, Jennifer
O'Neill and Joseph Bottoms. Cloud Dancer follows a
competition aerobatic pilot throughout his show
season.
Brad Randolph (David Carradine) is the world
In the early part of the coming year the project will be champion aerobatic pilot but now, in his early 40s,
aiming to install the undercarriage in the aircraft, thus he faces many challenges to maintain his position.
enabling the unfinished airframe to be put on display His physical struggles are heightened by the
during the Wings over Springbank Airshow in July presence of a youthful competitor, Tom Loomis
2019. (Joseph Bottoms), a pilot who had been a drug
smuggler and had been encouraged by Brad to try
To this end, the short term objectives for this quarter aerobatic flying.
were as follows - retest water/moisture drainage from Intertwined with Brad's professional struggles is his
the wing structure; finish the underside fuselage
relationship with Helen St. Clair (Jennifer O'Neill).
surface work and fit the battery and equipment
When Brad begins to have blackouts during his
stowage hatch cover; fit the fuel tanks with support competitions, after several near accidents, he faces a
brackets and test connect the fuel tanks into the wing
tough decision.
structure; create the jig and prepare the inner upper
wing skins for eventual mounting; and finally raise the
wing and install it on the fuselage, followed by
permanent epoxy/fibreglass bonding between the
wing spars and the fuselage walls.