India Four Two
7th Jan 2020, 23:53
Avro Arrow blueprints were saved by a draftsman in 1959 when John Diefenbaker, the Canadian Prime Minister, cancelled the project and ordered all the airframes scrapped and everything associated with the project to be destroyed.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1180x885/avro_arrow_3f651508c10306fb3afdc451db7ced28af58dcc7.jpg
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saved-avro-arrow-blueprints-ordered-destroyed-1.5416554
Ironically they are on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada Centre. I would have thought the owner (the draftsman's son) could have found somewhere more appropriate to display them!
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1180x885/avro_arrow_3f651508c10306fb3afdc451db7ced28af58dcc7.jpg
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saved-avro-arrow-blueprints-ordered-destroyed-1.5416554
Ironically they are on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada Centre. I would have thought the owner (the draftsman's son) could have found somewhere more appropriate to display them!