An Avro Arrow hunt: Aviation relic gets scrub down in Ottawa

With dental scalers and tweezers in hand, government conservators scrape and pluck zebra mussel detritus from a talismanic piece of Canadian aviation history.
Their painstaking work — there are thousands of hair-like filaments that have to be removed — is part of a federal effort to preserve what looks like a small rocket ship.
Bent and corroded, the three-metre projectile is unremarkable save for its triangular wings, which hint at a much larger, more consequential story.
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