Randall Wakelam

Cold War Fighters

Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54

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Produktbeschreibung

The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on the Canadian imagination that earlier developments in defence procurement remain obscure. Randall Wakelam corrects this oversight - and offers fresh insight on the AVRO saga and contemporary procurement issues - by revealing how cabinet ministers, chiefs of staff, and air marshals negotiated competing pressures to arm the air force, please allies, and save money during a decade when Canada's air force was growing by leaps and bounds. The result was the CF-100 Canuck and the F-86 Sabre, Canada's front-line defensive aircraft in the coldest years of the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780774821490
• ISBN-10: 0774821493
• Artikelnr.: 41608144

Autorenporträt

Colonel (ret'd) Randall Wakelam teaches military history and leadership at the Royal Military College of Canada and is author of The Science of Bombing: Operational Research in RAF Bomber Command. A pilot in his service career, he also worked in aircraft procurement.

Inhaltsangabe

1 An Air-Minded Middle Power
2 Planning for Peace
3 International and Industrial Alliances
4 Caught Flat-Footed
5 Facing the Threat in Earnest
6 And So to War
7 Juggling Numbers
8 Putting Rubber on the Ramp
9 Growing Needs, Growing Concerns
10 Fact and Fancy
Appendix A: Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters Organization Chart, c.
1947
Appendix B: Department of Defence Production Aircraft Delivery Statistics,
1951-54
Notes
Bibliography
Index