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The 6,900-nautical-mile delivery included a nearly seven-hour leg from Iceland to Scotland.
Reminds me of stories of ferrying aircraft to England during WWII.
A key route had Iceland to the Faroe Islands as the longest leg, Greenland>Iceland was not a great deal shorter.
IIRC that was the Bluie West One route, a code name for security.
A popular rumour in Canada was that an Avro Arrow had escaped to England.
Not so, all scrapped except for a cockpit in a museum in Canada.
(A ferry tank for the weapons bay had been made.)
But at least one Orenda Iroquois engine was sent to England for evaluation. One is now in the hands of S and S Turbines in Fort St. John BC, which is slowly restoring it to running condition. (The company overhauls gas turbines used for compressor stations on natural gas pipelines. Most are aviation engines, some are a much earlier Orenda jet engine.)
Took a while to find it, then make a deal which involved sending an antigue airplane to England, I recall.
The Arrow was an advanced interceptor, potentially capable of Mach 3 flight.
Government of the day stopped the program late in development and testing because missiles were the new way of defending the north against the UUSR. But over half a century later fighters are still a defence, the F-22, CF-18, and now F-35.
Many engineers from the Arrow and Iroquois went south into the US’ space program.
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