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TORONTO (CP) — A
figure from aviation's past
recently Gresented a paper
te the: Canadian Aviation
Historical Society recalling
his work as chief de-
velopment pilot with Avro

-, during the
heyday of Canada’s aifcraft
usiry.

Ja nd Zurakowski

emigrated from Great
Britain in 1952 and became
involved in the development
of the Avro CF’-100 and Later
the Arrow. interceptor air-
craft.
"In 1959 he rétired after
then Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker cancelled the
Arrow aircraft program. |

When Zurakowski arrived
in Canada, the old Toronto
Telegram wrote, “Thirty-
sevenyear-old Zurakowski
is smal] and balding and
lotks like anything buta test
pilot.”

One year later he broke

. the sound barrier while

flying an Avro CF-100 air-
craft—the first straight-
winged airplane to be
pushed past the speed of
sound.

’ At the Farnborough air
show in England in 1955, he
impressed crowds with an
aerobatic “falling leaf’
manoeuvre in a similar
airplane.

With the CF-100 in
quantity production and
considered the finest all-
weather interceptor aircraft
in the West, Avro Aircraft
Ltd., in Toronto started
designing a supersonic
fighter for the RCAF to be
called the Arrow.

The first Arrow was flown
by Zurakowski, March 25,
1958, and more than 1,000
Avro employees watched.
The second Arrow was flown
in August the same year. On
the seventh flight of the first

' aireraft a speed of 1,000

mph. was exceeded while
still climbing at 50,000 feet.

Six prototype aircraft
were completed but on Feb.
20, 1959, known as “Black

Friday,” Avro employees ~

were informed that:
Diefenbaker had announced

the termination of the Arrow .

aireraft and Iroquois engine
development programs.
“With the cancellation of
the Arrow and without any
program for a large part of
the Canadian (aircraft)
industry, Canada lost the
Opportunity to establish an

PAGE 12, THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday June 2, 1977

‘

___. SAYS OLD TEST PILOT. —
Aircraft industry out to lunch:

advanced indusiry, which
had a good chance to be-
come an economical means
of satisfying a large part of
our demand in defen-
ce,”"Zurakowski said in his

paper, .

The ending of the program
“was a nasty shock to the
pride of the average
Canadian and this was
probably a highly
depressing factor in the
years ahead, only rein-

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forcing the widely-held
belief that Canadians cannot
succeed in anything.”

Zurakowski said he had
never heard of such a
decision being taken without
preparation being made to
use released manpower and
facilities.

In an article by James
Eayrs in Ottawa Citizen,
Zurakowski was quoted:
“The Arrow was a superb
piece of machinery, a really

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In 1958, he was awarded
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