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Originally Posted by modeltrains
Avro Arrow was interesting plane - there has to be someone somewhere who hasdon e a model rocket version.
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I would be quite surprised if a member of the CAR (Canadian Association of Rocketry, see:
http://www.canadianrocketry.org/ ) hasn't built and flown a boost-glider scale model of the Avro Arrow. There might even be a history-with-model-plans article on such a project in an issue--perhaps going back a few years--of "Earthrise," the CAR's journal. Also:
There is an active interest in the Avro Arrow among some Canadian model rocketeers, particularly since several rocket-boosted (using Nike boosters), sub-scale Avro Arrow aerodynamic test models were flown (see:
http://www.avroarrow.org/ffm/index.html ) . I recall reading an article several years ago about a private project to find and recover these models, which were fired from a temporary range on the shore of Lake Ontario (a few were also launched at Wallops Island, Virginia, where a lot of this type of "free flight wind tunnel" test work with rocket-boosted scale aircraft and missile models was done from 1945 to ~1960). Doing a quick "Google" check, it appears that there are (or were) several groups engaged in recovering the Avro Arrow models from the bottom of Lake Ontario, as you can see here: (
http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or....ecovery+project ). Googling "Avro Arrow" brings up headings such as "Avro Arrow plans," "Avro Arrow model kit," and "Avro Arrow R/C," so the scale data to build flying scale models of it appears to be available.
I hope this information will be helpful.