THE CF105 AVRO ARROW:
THE PLAYERS
Updated 22 January, 2006

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A.V. Roe Canada 


Government, R.C.A.F.
& The Public

Orenda Engines Limited

Arnold Banks, Line Crew
Stu Barefoot
, Avro Photography
Ken Barnes
, Senior Designer
Cy Beard, Avro Photography
Harry Beffort,
Al Betts, Avro Photography
Pete Bonell, Flight Test Dept
Murray Boyd, Line Crew
F. Brame, Chief of Technical Design
Peter Brown, Avro Photography
Bob Cairns, Wrote the Specifications of the Arrows
Jim Chamberlin, Chief of Technical Design
Ken Cooke, Engineering
Mike Cooper-Slipper, Chief Test Pilot, Pilot  B-47
Peter Cope, Test Pilot
Art Cowper, Line Crew
Gordon Crawford, President & General Manager
Wilf Farrance, Cockpit Implementation
Jim Floyd, VP Engineering
Bill Forester, Line Crew
Jack Gary, Line Crew
Guest Hake, Chief Project Engineer
Ted Harmsworth, Technical Pubs
Dorothy Henry, Technical Pubs
Len Hobbs, Co-Pilot, B-47
Fred Hopkinson, Avro Photography
Ian Higgins, Flight Test Department
C.D. Howe
Jack Hurst
, Avro Photography
Stan Kwatkowski,
Supervisor, Analog Cockpit Simulator
George Laidlaw, Avro Photography
Ron Lewis, Human Factors Engineer
Robert N. Lindley, Chief Engineer
Bob Levitt, Line Crew
Owen Maynard, Engineer
Hugh MacKechnie, Flight Test photographer
Johnny MacLaughlin, Flight Engineer B-47
Bill McDowell, Avro Photography
Dan Moore, Engineer, (In charge of fuselage centre section)
Joseph A. Morley, VP Sales & Service
Verne Morse, Avro PR Photography
Ron Northcott,  Avro Photography
Ron Nunney, Avro Photography
John L. Plant, Pres & Gen Mgr
Spud Potocki, Test Pilot
Ross Richardson, Engineer, (Designed intakes and front fuselage)
Duke Riggs, V.P. Manufacturing
Harold Roberts, Avro Photography
Don Rogers,
John Salmon, Line Crew
Bill Seggie, Line Crew
George Shaw, Mechanical Design Engineer
Frank Shoji, Avro Stress Group
Harry Shipley,
Harvey R. Smith, VP Manufacturing
Fred T. Smye, Ex VP Aeronatical Design
Doc Staley, Line Crew
Johnnie Straboe, Line Crew
Granville Stuart, Avro Photography
June Thompson, Technical Pubs
Russ Thompson,  Avro Photography
Audrey Underwood, Private Secretary to Crawford Gordon
Lou Wise, Head of Photography
Jan Zurakowski, Chief Test Pilot

W/C John R.D. Braham, A/DADR
June Callwood, Journalist
A/M Hugh Campbell, Chief of Air Staff
V/A H.D. DeWolf, Chief of Naval Staff
John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister
A/V/M J. Easton
G/C Ray Foottitt
Gen Charles Foulkes, Chiefs of Staff
Joe Gibson, CBC Newsman
L/G H.D. Graham, Chief of General Staff
Paul Hellyer, Liberal M.P.
A/M M.M. Hendrick
C.A. Horne,
Department Defence Production
Jim Hornick, Globe & Mail
G/C J.J. Jordon, DFS
Herb Knott, Private Photographer
Mac Kuhring, Interim Curator NAM
Sam Lax
G/C Abe Lieff
Roland Michener, House Speaker
A/V/M Frank Miller, Deputy Defnce Minister
George Pearkes V.C., Minister of Defence
F/L Norm Ronaason, CEPE Pilot
C. Roy Slemon, Chief of the Air Staff
D.L. Thompson, Dept of Defence Production
A/C G.G. Truscott
F/L Jack Woodman, CEPE Pilot
Dr. A. Zimmerman, Head of DRB

Burt Avery, Chief Design Engineer
Peter Brennan
Syd Britton
, Chief Administrative Engineer
Earle Brownridge,
Exec VP and GM
C.E. Elliot, Contract & Parts Manager
Dolly Ford, Production Control
Marg Fry, Experimental Purchasing Department
Len Goodenough, Photography
Charles A. Grinyer, VP Engineering
Cliff Heckel, Photography
Harry Keast, Assistant Chief Engineer (Technical)
Robert Lindsey, Engineer
Walter R. McLachlan, VP & Gen Manager
Dr. A. Muraszew, Chief Experimental Engineer
Herb Saruanemuto, Engineer
Frank L Trethewey, VP Sales & Service


Sub Contracted Companies
There were 650 suppliers and sub contractors, 400 Canadian and 250 American
Canadian Companies
American Companies
Alcoa, (Forgings) B.F. Goodrich, (deicing boots)
Canadair Ltd., Airframe detail, missile airframe, and program coordination Cornell Aeronautical Labratory, (Now Veridan Engineering), (Wind Tunnel)
Canadian Westinghouse, (Missile seeker) Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, U.S., (Development of Flight Controls)
Dowty Equipment, Ajax, ON, (Landing Gear & Hydraulics) Radio Corporation of America (RCA), U.S., (Electrical Weapon & Navigation System)
Heroux Machine, (Airframe detail)
Irvin, Fort Erie, ON, (drag chutes)
Jarry Hydraulics, (Landing Gear & Hydraulics)
Nobel, (Partial engines were evaluated)
Vickers Hydraulics, (Pumps)









Last, but not least, ALL the employees of AVRO, Orenda, and their sub-contractors' employees, whose work and dedication ensured that the Arrows were built and flew!

Some of Avro and Orenda's Employees

John Connell, Skin Mill Operator




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