Toronto Air Museum
(Renamed to Canadian Aerospace Museum)Downsview, Ontario, Canada
The original rollout ceremony for the Arrow was 5 October 1957 with the rollout of RL201.
Since 1998, volunteers have been building a full size, non-flying replica of RL203.Its rollout was held on 4 October for Toronto Aero Museum members and former employees of AVRO . Then on Saturday the 5, and 6 there were public displays. Fellow workers and my Mother all asked if I knew about the rollout and if I would be going up for it. The only day that was free was Thanksgiving Monday (Oct 7) so we left home in the fog and headed for Toronto. Fortunately as the morning progressed the fog lifted and turned into a beautiful day for a drive with the top down on the car.
As an added bonus which I did not know about until we showed up at the museum was that there was going to be a flight with a radio controlled model from Team Arrow. I got to talk to who would be flying the model and he told me they were able to get permission to fly the model for four flights over the three days while other groups in the past were not able to obtain permission. I can just imagine the red tape they went through, not to mention the strict rules of flight they had to follow. I wish I had had my handheld so I could have listened to the tower and model team. It would have came in handy when a low flying twin entered the airspace during the model flight, probably to take an aerial photo of the Arrow replica. Click here for Team Arrow photos at TAM.
Click on the pictures below and they will open in a new browser window. To return to this page, just close the new window down. Feel free to use the pictures for personal archives and for school/youth projects. In return please give credit to me for the photographs in your bibliography etc.
The pictures are in 800 x 600 pixels format in size and are compressed from their original size and resolution.
CJ "Chip" Chapman, VA3KGB
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