AHC: Avro Austraila

(Voiceover): Live from Alternative history dot com, Its Friday night! (applause): With your host, LUATH!

Hello AHchers everywere, Nice to see you, to see you'______

Well I would imagine a lot of us have heard of the Avro Canada Aircraft corporation. Well tonight I'd like to talk to you about another former dominon, that loveable party boy, beach guru, high school drop out of the British empire, Austraila!

(Austrailans in the audience) Whoo! Australia! Oi Oi Oi!

So my fellow fans of that tresured genre, my challenge to you tonight is to find a means by which 'Avro Austraila' can be set up.

The score board is set at:

10 Points if you can establish Avro Austraila
30 Points if you can have both the prototypes of the Jetliner and the Arrow fly in Austraila at the same time as OTL.
And 50 points if you can perform the above two... and have both Aircraft entry Civilan and Millitary service in Austraila.

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All you need is some heritage, some design genius and a bit of industrial wizardry, stir and stand back.

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It would probably be more along the lines of Hawker Australia. Historically, GAF built the Australian Lincolns, so there might be a niche there.
 
Just why do you want a failed aircraft company in Australia anyway? And do you want Orenda engines too, along with Velvet Boomerang missiles and Austral fire control systems?
 
Just why do you want a failed aircraft company in Australia anyway? And do you want Orenda engines too, along with Velvet Boomerang missiles and Austral fire control systems?

I think that the intention of the challenge is to have a stronger Australian aircraft industry. After all, both the Jetliner and the Arrow were uniquely Canadian products to have them built bolt for bolt in Australia would simply be ASB.

Now to be fair, Australia did have it's own version of Avro, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, and though it didn't have an analog to the Jetliner, it did have an Arrow-esque craft in the CAC-23 (a replacement for the De Havilland Vampire) which would've seen service in Korea had it been built.
 
Off the top of my head the Hawker P.1081 was designed to meet an operational requirement put out by the Australian government but the origina prototype was lost when it crashed. Perhaps as a point of departure the aeroplace doesn't crash and is developed into a serviceable aircraft, with the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation building them under licence or Hawker opening an Australian subsidiary to build them there for political reasons. It doesn't get you an Avro Australia but it does help build up a domestic company that could gain independence later on.
 
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