Anything out of Canadian Arrow?

[apollolanding]

I just looked at their website for the first time in months and while nothing new in the "What's New" section, I did notice that on their Flight Sequence page they proposed using Wallops Island.  I've vacationed on neighboring Chincoteague for about 30 years and have been lucky to witness a few launches.  I know the whole Arrow concept has a slim chance of becomming reality but it sure would be exciting to rattle all those travel trailers and condos with something other than sounding rockets and F/A-18s going supersonic over the ocean.

[XP67_Moonbat]

Seeing this makes me sad....Wish Canadian Arrow and Planetspace had done more! :-/

http://blackburnnews.com/sarnia/sarnia-news/2013/06/21/canadian-arrow-on-display/

[Moe Grills]

  Canadian Arrow ain't going anywhere, except perhaps a museum.

[Damon Hill]

It appears to be a V-2 clone, something most people recognize from history, named after an advanced military aircraft which evokes strong emotions in many Canadians.

Was it ever real, or just a scam?  Reminds me of a couple of schemes from the very early days of rocketry that were mostly ways for the gullible public to 'invest'.  Those too were publicly exhibited in much the same way, but were empty shells for show.

At least that aircraft was real, very much so.

--Damon

[R7]

Was it ever real, or just a scam?  Reminds me of a couple of schemes from the very early days of rocketry that were mostly ways for the gullible public to 'invest'.  Those too were publicly exhibited in much the same way, but were empty shells for show.

A lot more real than many other Ansari X-Prize contestants (like ARCA, da Vinci project and Interorbital *giggle* to name a few). CA had an engine prototype running on a test stand.

[XP67_Moonbat]

I remember hearing about the test-stand firings.

[simonbp]

It appears to be a V-2 clone, something most people recognize from history, named after an advanced military aircraft which evokes strong emotions in many Canadians.

Was it ever real, or just a scam?  Reminds me of a couple of schemes from the very early days of rocketry that were mostly ways for the gullible public to 'invest'.  Those too were publicly exhibited in much the same way, but were empty shells for show.

At least that aircraft was real, very much so.

--Damon

Yes, for a time they were quite serious. The plan was to build almost clones of V-2s and launch passenger capsules with them (the capsule and rocket would return on separate parachutes). As mentioned, they actually got as far as building and testing a replica V-2 engine (no small achievement), but SpaceShipOne was just too far ahead. After loosing the X-Prize, their plans became more ambitious while their funding became more sketchy, and they fizzled out after loosing out on NASA COTS (the winners were the now-defunct Kistler and something called "SpaceX").

The Copenhagen Suborbitals group is trying something very similar to the original Canadian Arrow plan, but without trying to be a carbon copy of the V-2.

[notsorandom]

It appears to be a V-2 clone, something most people recognize from history, named after an advanced military aircraft which evokes strong emotions in many Canadians.

Was it ever real, or just a scam?  Reminds me of a couple of schemes from the very early days of rocketry that were mostly ways for the gullible public to 'invest'.  Those too were publicly exhibited in much the same way, but were empty shells for show.

At least that aircraft was real, very much so.

--Damon

The follow on will not be based on the V2 but rather a more modern missile, the Bomarc.