The Avro Arrow Story

Author : Arrowheads
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114671063

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Avro Arrow by Arrowheads Pdf

The illustrated memoir of the most advanced fighter jet of the 1950s. At its creation in the mid-1950s, the Avro Arrow was a fighter jet without equal. This Cold War aircraft was twenty years ahead of its time. Unfortunately, political realities resulted in the complete termination of the Arrow project. Cancellation of the Arrow called for the destruction of all photos, drawings, models, specifications and tooling. Even the aircraft themselves were disassembled and destroyed. Avro Arrow is a fascinating historical record with an extensive collection of rare and highly prized photos, drawings and diagrams. Using two hundred images, the book traces the story of the Arrow from its inception to roll out and flight test, including advanced proposals for the development of future version. Primary sources include: Taped interviews, test pilots' firsthand impressions, Avro officials and many plant personnel Surviving company records Declassified government documents. Diagrams offer stunning details such as the North American strategic defense zones and interception tactics proposed for bomber attacks. This book concentrates solely on the vision, design and technical excellence of the airplane itself rather than the politics of its demise.

Author : Richard Organ,Arrowheads
Publisher : Cheltenham, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0919822355

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Avro Arrow by Richard Organ,Arrowheads Pdf

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550024388

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Requiem for a Giant by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

Campagna explores the history of the controversial company that produced the Avro Arrow.

Author : Lawrence Miller
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459415270

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The Avro Arrow by Lawrence Miller Pdf

When it first flew in 1957, the Avro Arrow was the world's best supersonic combat aircraft. It was the proudest achievement of the engineers and designers in Canada's world-leading aircraft industry. They had already succeeded in building the worlds first passenger jet. This book tells the story of building, testing, and flying the Arrow. It explores the reasons why the Diefenbaker Conservative government of the day cancelled the contract to build these planes — and then ordered the six already finished airplanes cut up and destroyed.

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459753181

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The Avro Arrow by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

“No one has done more than Palmiro Campagna to document the story of Canada’s extraordinary Avro Arrow ... This latest work sheds new light on the Arrow’s fascinating saga.” — ANDREW CHAIKIN, author of A Man on the Moon An expanded edition of the bestselling book, including newly discovered American records that shed further light on the disastrous cancellation of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow — an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation — continues to inspire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical information. Was abandoning the program the right decision? Did Canada lose more than it gained? Brimming with information to fill the gaps in the Arrow’s troubled history, this new edition also brings to light recently discovered documents that answer whether the United States government wished Canada to continue the development of what was considered the world’s most advanced interceptor aircraft.

Author : Lawrence Miller
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552778951

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The Avro Arrow: A Picture History by Lawrence Miller Pdf

Dramatic images tell the story of the creation -- and destruction -- of the best aircraft in the world.

Author : Palmiro Campagna
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781770705456

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Storms of Controversy by Palmiro Campagna Pdf

The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada’s government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the prototypes? And did Arrow technology find its way into the American Stealth fighter/bomber program? When Storms of Controversy was first published in 1992, its answers to these questions sent a shock wave across the country. Using never-before-released documents, the book exploded the myth that design flaws, cost overruns, or obsolescence had triggered the demise of the Arrow. Now, in this fully revised fourth edition, complete with two new appendices, the bestselling book brings readers up-to-date on the CF-105 Arrow, the most innovative, sophisticated aircraft the world had seen by the end of the 1950s.

Author : Fred Smye
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500545996

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Canadian Aviation and the Avro Arrow by Fred Smye Pdf

With its first flight in 1958, the Avro Aircraft CF-105 Arrow appeared to be Canada's greatest aeronautical achievement. As the world's fastest and most advanced aircraft at that time, the Arrow, flying at twice the speed of sound over the Canadian north, was to attack Soviet bombers with air-to-air nuclear missiles. Also during the mid-1950's, the Royal Canadian Air Force, with its 27 fighter jet squadrons assigned to NATO and NORAD, was respected as one of the great air forces in the western alliance. But Canada quickly tumbled from this threshold of aeronautical leadership with the sudden cancellation and destruction of the Arrow. Fred Smye was in on the genesis of Canada's post WW II air power and describes the decade of innovation and growth in the nation's extraordinary aviation industry that once enabled a unique and independent air defence strategy. Smye also reveals the misinformation, misjudgments, flawed economics and political machinations that forced him to give the orders to cut up the existing Arrows when the Diefenbaker government cancelled the program on February 20, 1959. That "Black Friday" devastated Canada's aviation industry, throwing tens of thousands of workers out of highly skilled jobs and forcing an exodus of scientists and engineers to the U.S. and Britain. Canada subsequently surrendered its independent air defence strategy and came to rely on the U.S. for aviation industry sub-contracts and a meager supply of obsolete military aircraft for a diminished air force.

Author : Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101919064

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Alis the Aviator by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail Pdf

Come along on an aviation journey with Alis! This spunky female guide will take you through an ABC of planes featuring gorgeous cut-paper art. An A to Z of planes past and present, this book has stunning cut-paper art and a cute-as-a-button guide named Alis. Named for Dr. Alis B. Kennedy, likely one of the first Indigenous women to obtain a commercial pilot licence with land and sea ratings in Canada, Alis will take you on an aviation tour from the Avro Arrow to the Zeppelin and everything in between. Meticulously researched and uniquely crafted, this is a one-of-a-kind book that will delight aviation fans big and little.

Author : T. F. J. Leversedge
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1550462938

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The Arrow by T. F. J. Leversedge Pdf

Boston Mills is delighted to publish, in one volume, a copy of the original Avro Arrow Pilot Operating Instructions manual and the previously unpublished RCAF Testing/Basing Plans. The special edition includes CD ROM with 22-minute Avro Story video, CF-100 and other video clips, slide show with over 350 Canadian aviation and Arrow-era photos, 100 heritage black and white photos photos dating to 1902, Arrow screensavers, plus Windows 98 media player.

Author : Randall Whitcomb
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : 1551250829

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Avro Aircraft & Cold War Aviation by Randall Whitcomb Pdf

This book is definitely not another rehash of old Avro Arrow material! It covers the entire history of Avro Canada, includes much about Avro in Britain and about advanced aviation progress in the United States. Its sub-plots involve the aerospace race of the 20th century set in global political aspects. The reader will discover the exciting advances in aviation over the last century and be able to assess the impact of the Avro story as a result. Statistical comparisons of Avro's products to the benchmark products of the American competition provide the most shocking evidence of how advanced the Avro actually was. Examines the C-102, CF-100 and the CF-105 Arrow interceptor through exceptionally detailed technical and aerodynamic discussions, and the political and economic factors at work in the demise of the Arrow. Most particularly the author focuses on the staggering front-line achievements of the A.V. Roe Company, later Avro Canada Ltd. His own stunning artwork illustrates the book.

Author : Murray Peden
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781550024531

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Fall of an Arrow by Murray Peden Pdf

A detailed account of the CF-105 Arrow, the plane that was supposed to put Canada on the map as a leader in supersonic flight technology.

Author : Peter Zuuring
Publisher : Dalkeith, Ont. : Arrow Alliance Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Avro Arrow (Jet fighter plane)
ISBN : 1550566903

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The Arrow Scrapbook by Peter Zuuring Pdf

Through rare photographs and previously unpublished government documents, this scrapbook recreates a story that shook the aviation world and forever changed a nation. In the chill of the Cold War, the RCAF and aircraft giant A. V. Roe developed and built a new generation of jet fighter, one that could intercept Soviet bombers flying over the North Pole, a fighter that would stand as the first line of defense for North America. This important collection is vital to understanding the plan, the dream, the technological victories, and how it all went wrong. A must for aviation enthusiasts!

Author : Arrowheads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Avro Arrow (Jet fighter plane)
ISBN : OCLC:317547808

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Avro Arrow by Arrowheads Pdf

Author : Bill Zuk
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552778319

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The Avro Arrow Story by Bill Zuk Pdf

"These dedicated men and women gave blood, sweat, and tears as their contribution - And now, it really happened, our beloved bird was in the air." - Ray Boone, A.V. Roe Canada employee. In the 1950s, A. V. Roe Canada was at the forefront of aviation development worldwide. After building one of the first jet airliners and completing production of Canada's first jet fighter, the company was poised to launch its most revolutionary design - the Avro Arrow. Despite the efforts of courageous test pilots and some of the world's best designers, engineers, and technicians, the dream was shattered.