In article F2Oeb.659101$uu5.108436@sccrnsc04,
Jim McCauley wrote:
There was an Avro Arrow orbital-launch concept?
I've never seen this. Can anyone give me a reference?

I've never seen any actual documentation...

A large hot fighter with a *big* internal weapons bay -- the Arrow's was
huge -- is just what you want as a first stage for a small air-launch
system. An aircraft with that performance in a zoom climb will get you up
into a very low-dynamic-pressure environment, where you can pop out an
upper stage (which needn't be very aerodynamic) to go the rest of the way.

I've never seen any documentation on something like this either, but given
the mood of the times, it would be surprising if Avro Canada *hadn't*
thought a bit about it, at least informally. If you dug hard, you might
well find mention of it.
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