From: akctai@acs.ucalgary.ca (Alan Kar-cheung Tai)
Subject: Re: F16 Characteristics
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 05:38:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <18676@mindlink.bc.ca> Joel_Murray@mindlink.bc.ca (Joel Murray) writes:
>Robert O'Brien writes:
>> Msg-ID: <1992Dec17.202136.15444@netcom.com>
>> Posted: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:21:3
>>
>> Org.  : Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
>>
>> The CF-100 and CF-105 were indigenous products of Canadair.  I'm _NOT_ very
>> expert on them, but the CF-105 was a BIG strike bomber, somewhere
>> between a B-58 and FB-111 in mission/performance, and a lot like
>> the TSR of Britain.  I think it was late fifties/early sixties, and
>> apparently, political forces were so afraid that this plane would perform,
>> that they not only cancelled it, but broke up the prototype, such that all
>> the Canadian air museum has is the landing gear and much of the nose
>> section.
>>
>> Any Canadian buffs care to contribute?  This exhausts _my_ knowledge
>> of the subject.
>
>The plane to which you are referring is the Avro Arrow.  Unfortunately, I
>can't seem to find any reference material right now...  :-(
From drguglie Thu Dec 24 00:25:07 1992

Posting on behalf of my buddy:

For those of you who are really interested, there is a book published
by McGraw Hill Ryerson out of Toronto copyright 1988 by the author 
Greig Stewart called "Shutting Down the National Dream - A.V.Roe and 
the The Tragedy of the Avro Arrow. (ISBN0-07-549675-5) It won a
National Business Book Award, and that may indicate the direction
from which it was written, but I've never read it. The reason I know of
it is that my father purchased it because he was in school for 
the Aeronautical Engineering program before being forced to change
professions due to the fact that the industry in Canada was basically
destroyed by the cancellation of the Avro Arrow by PM John
Diefenbaker on Feb.20, 1959.  The following is the promo on the back of
the book, reproduced here against copyright (but hopefully I won't
go to jail since this is going to act as a promotion... ;).

"It could be called a love story, a love story between men and engines
and aircraft.  It becomes noticeable first in the quiet way they
remember, and then in the way their eyes occasionally mist up when they
recall a special moment, as if haunted by a past they didn't have a
chance to finish.  Tragedy is clearly the difference between what really
is and what might have been, and it's the 'might have beens' that seem
to hurt so much and touch with such profound sadness virtually every
person who was there.  Not only is it painful for them to recall what
was obviously the time of their lives, it is even more painful living
with the unfulfillable desire to get another crack at it, and this time
to get it right.  A chance, regrettably, lost to time."

Check it out!

Darryl Guglielmin (drguglie@acs.ucalgary.ca)



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