Reacting to the criticism leveled at A.V. Roe Canada by the Canadian government and indirectly by the RCAF, Sir Roy Dobson, made critical changes in the management and engineering teams in 1952. As Ken Caroline, one of the engineers from Avro (U.K) observed: "It was not good for the firm to have all those conflicting personalities around and the management should have sorted them out, although I think they were probably more responsible for what happened in the end." (Caroline, 1992)

After reviewing reports from Stuart Dobie, a trusted Dobson man, and Fred Smye, the General Manager, Aircraft Division, Dobson reassigned Atkin to the position of Technical Director or advisor (more of a lateral move but nonetheless he was removed from the day-to-day operations). Later in August, 1952, Atkin left to take a position at Grumman Aviation in the U.S.

Frost was also removed as the Project Designer of the CF-100 in early 1952 when Jim Floyd took over responsibility for the main aviation programs- the CF-102 Jetliner, The CF-100 fighter and the new CF-105 as Chief Engineer. For Frost, the decision was almost a reprieve as he was allowed to set up a special project group looking at advanced aircraft designs. He had already begun work on a new project that would become his passion in the years to come.

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