+ext Posted August 16, 2018 Posted August 16, 2018 View File CF-121Redhawk In 1959 Canada bought 30 Soviet Mig-21F Fishbeds. With the failure of the Avro Arrow Canada needed some high speed interceptors but this project only lasted over 2 years before selling them off. The F-101B Voodoo was Canadas main interceptor purchased from the USAF to fill the needs. Submitter ext Submitted 08/15/2018 Category What If Hangar 1 Quote
Arrow Posted August 17, 2018 Posted August 17, 2018 lol That's quite the what-if! Interesting enough, in my Avro Arrow book I noted that one of the early designs really resembled a Fishbed. I read somewhere on the Internet a few years ago, that some in the Intelligence community of the 50s suspected spying by either side as cause for the similarity; I just put that down to wacko/weird conspiracy theorist stuff. Still, there's no denying that an early Arrow prototype did look like what would become the MiG-21. Anyhow....nice work on that - always like seeing jets in RCAF liveries. Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted August 18, 2018 Posted August 18, 2018 http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/285/The-Breaking-Point--Canadian-MiGs-test-American-friendship--2011-APRIL-FOOLS-HOAX.aspx Quote
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