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==Notable appearances in media== {{Main|Aircraft in fiction#Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow|l1=Avro Canada Arrow in fiction}} <!-- ===============({{NoMoreCruft}})===============--> <!-- Please READ [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content#Popular culture]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Style guide#Popular culture]] before adding any "Popular culture" items. Please do not add the many minor appearances of the aircraft. This section is only for major cultural appearances where the aircraft plays a MAJOR part in the story line, or has an "especially notable" role in what is listed. A verifiable source proving the appearance's notability may be required. Random cruft, including ALL Ace Combat, Battlefield, and Metal Gear Solid appearances, and ALL anime/fiction lookalike speculation, WILL BE removed. If your item has been removed, please discuss it on the talk page FIRST. A verifiable source proving the appearance's notability may be required. If a consensus is reached to include your item, a regular editor of this page will add it back. Thank you for your cooperation.--> In 1997, the CBC broadcast their two-part miniseries, ''[[The Arrow (miniseries)|The Arrow]]''.{{#tag:ref|Subsequent re-broadcasts on [[CBC Television]] as well as Discovery and other "specialty channels" in Canada, continued until 2009.|group=Note}} The production used a combination of archival film, remote-control flying models and computer animation for the static, ground and flying sequences. Although highly acclaimed, receiving praise from film historian and former Avro employee [[Elwy Yost]]<ref> [[Winnipeg Jets]] goaltender [[Bob Essensa]] had a helmet featuring the silhouette of the Avro Arrow as noted in the Jim Hynes and Gary Smith book on hockey mask history, ''Saving Face''.[http://members.shaw.ca/b.bogdan/Arrow/avro_arrow.htm "The Avro Arrow: Canada's Broken Dream"]. ''shaw.ca'', 2006. Retrieved: 25 September 2010.</ref> and winner of numerous awards including the [[Gemini Award|Gemini]] that year,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118641/awards "The Arrow: Awards"]. IMDb. Retrieved: 25 September 2010.</ref> the miniseries was also criticized for its "docu-drama" style and departing from a strict factual account.<ref name='blissarrow'>Bliss. Michael. [http://www.ggower.com/dief/text/time1.shtml "Arrow That Doesn't Fly: The CBC's miniseries about the interceptor that wasn't, is good to look at but ungrounded in facts"] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717011720/http://www.ggower.com/dief/text/time1.shtml |date=17 July 2016 }}). ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 27 January 1997. Retrieved: 28 March 2010.</ref> The continued rebroadcasts and accompanying DVD releases have re-animated the controversy over the Arrow's cancellation and introduced the story to a new generation.<ref name="Gainor">Gainor 2007, p. 208.</ref>
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