Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow

by Palmiro Campagna

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781550024388
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	06/15/2003
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

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.

Table of Contents

	Preface	9
Chapter 1	Beginnings	11
Chapter 2	Jet Jitters	25
Chapter 3	"Unsellable"	41
Chapter 4	Criticism	57
Chapter 5	NORAD	71
Chapter 6	Who Needs the Bomarc?	89
Chapter 7	The Arrow: The Pearson Perspective	111
Chapter 8	How Much is Too Much?	127
Chapter 9	Termination, Speculation, and the End of A.V. Roe Canada	147
Chapter 10	In the News	159
Chapter 11	Questions and Answers	173
Appendix	The Secret Files	181
	Notes	209
	Bibliography	215
	Index	221