Palmiro Campagna

The Avro Arrow

For the Record

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a host of declassified government documents and photos, The Avro Arrow: For The Record explores the facts and the myths surrounding the deliberate destruction of one of Canada's greatest technical achievements. Also included is an update on the attempts to retrieve long-lost scale models of the plane from the bottom of Lake Ontario.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781459743175
• ISBN-10: 1459743172
• Artikelnr.: 51139877

Autorenporträt

Palmiro Campagna is the author of Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed, Requiem for A Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow, and The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed. He lives in Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: A Future Lost
Chapter 2: Was the Arrow That Good?
Chapter 3: Why Was the Arrow Program Terminated?
Chapter 4: What Did the Arrow Program Cost?
Chapter 5: Who Ordered the Blowtorching and Why Was Everyone Fired?
Conclusion
Postscript
Appendix A: Some Notes on the Flight Controls and Stability Augmentation
System in the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
Appendix B: Avro to NASA
Appendix C: Selected Figures
Appendix D: Selected Documents
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index