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Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow
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by Palmiro Campagna
Sales Rank: 79376
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Discount: 22 %
List Price: $16.99
$13.25
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 226 pages
Published by: Dundurn Press March 1, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1550024388
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1550024388
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Book Description
No Canadian company has fuelled as much speculation about its demise as A.V. Roe Canada Limited. When its name was erased off the corporate map in 1962, A.V. Roe's most ambitious undertakings - the Jetliner, the Iroquois Engine, and the Arrow - were reduced to scrap. In Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow, Palmiro Campagna supplies us with new information to help dispel the myths surrounding the company. With an array of recently declassified documents, Campagna investigates the star projects of A.V. Roe Canada. Was the C-102 Jetliner technically flawed? Was the Avrocar a failure? Was the cost of the Arrow program spiralling out of control as historians have maintained? These questions and many others are put to rest in Requiem for a Giant.
About The Author
Palmiro Campagna works for the Department of National Defence in Ottawa and has acted as Canadian representative to NATO in the area of electromagnetics in military aircraft. He is currently involved in program evaluation and audit. He is the author of the bestselling Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed as well as The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed.
Reader Reviews
Having read the authors first book, revealing the memos etc. surrounding the demise of the Arrow, I thought this book would be worth getting. I was right, to put it mildly. Very interesting summaries of the CF-100, and C-102, with some information that I had not seen before, it is a very good read. Easy to read, and VERY informative. The best portion, in my mind, would be the sections dealing with the cost of the Arrow. The cost break down, detail, and suprising bits of information regarding funding for the armed forces, will lay to rest claims that Canada could just not afford the Arrow. We could have, and should have. This book takes the financial attacks on the Arrow, completely down. GET THIS BOOK. Sorry, I usually don't raise my voice.
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