CF-105 Avro Arrow

The CF-105 Arrow was a supersonic interceptor developed in the 1950s. I love this beautiful plane and I felt a need to model it, despite having no idea how to model such complex shapes.

Please read on to learn some history and to learn about my modelling approach and what I learned sculpting in Fusion360 for the first time ever.

Some history:

The Avro Arrow was designed as a follow-on project to the CF-100 Canuck as a supersonic, all-weather interceptor by the Avro Canada company.

Designed to fly at Mach 2+ speeds at 50,000 feet, this plane was meant to operate in the Canadian north to intercept bombers flying over the north pole. The RCAF would have operated the Arrow, but the project was cancelled before the plane entered service.

The rollout of the Arrow happened to be on the same day the USSR put Sputnik in space in 1957 and the CF-105 first flew in March of 1958.

Due to political reasons, the entire program was cancelled on February 20th 1959. This date, known as