Avro Arrow test pilot

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
with the excuse that it was too expensive. What followed made no sense at all and demonstrated a criminal lack of judgment - the six existing prototypes, all related tooling and even the blueprints, were destroyed by government order. All that remains today are a few subcomponents and miscellaneous bric-a-brac.

Good Heavens!!

I thought you were talking about TSR2. . . . . . . .

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co...r2/history.php

"All tooling was destroyed; on the production line, as workers completed assembly of some airframes prior to their transport to the scrap yard, the tooling was being destroyed with cutting torches behind them. A wooden mockup of the TSR.2 was dragged out of the Warton factory and burned while the workers looked on. All technical publications were ordered to be destroyed; even photographs of the aircraft were destroyed. Boscombe Down's official records of test flights were 'lost'. "

R.