Gerald
08-17-20, 05:03 AM
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A decade after the end of World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age.
https://i.imgur.com/qq1Ki7L.jpg
The aircraft became a source of national pride for many Canadians (Credit: Avro Canada/Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
n the early years of the Cold War, Canada decided to design and build the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world.
Canada is well known for its rugged bush planes, capable of rough landings and hair-raising take-offs in the wilderness. From the late 1930s, the North American country had also started to manufacture British-designed planes for the Allied war effort. Many of these planes were iconic wartime designs like the Hawker Hurricane fighter and Avro Lancaster bomber.
Ambitious Canadian politicians and engineers weren’t satisfied with this. They decided to forge a world-leading aircraft manufacturing industry out of the factories and skilled workforce built up during the war. Tired of manufacturing aircraft designed by others, this new generation of Canadian leaders were determined to produce Canadian designs. Avro Aircraft, the Canadian airplane maker created after the war, was the company that would deliver their dream.
Freed from the set ways-of-thinking of Avro’s more established rivals, the firm’s engineers were able to work on revolutionary jet fighters, commercial airliners, flying saucers and even a space plane. They placed Canada at the technological cutting edge of the new Jet Age.
In so doing, these engineers challenged notions of what small countries like Canada could achieve in the hi-tech industries of the day, even if convincing politicians to stump up the cash for them was an altogether trickier business.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-breaking-jet-which-still-haunts-a-country
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170404-the-british-airliner-that-changed-the-world
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171018-the-soviet-unions-flawed-rival-to-concorde
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200617-the-largest-electric-plane-ever-to-fly
A beautiful sight! :up: Some links have I add up here also with other aircraft.
A decade after the end of World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age.
https://i.imgur.com/qq1Ki7L.jpg
The aircraft became a source of national pride for many Canadians (Credit: Avro Canada/Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
n the early years of the Cold War, Canada decided to design and build the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world.
Canada is well known for its rugged bush planes, capable of rough landings and hair-raising take-offs in the wilderness. From the late 1930s, the North American country had also started to manufacture British-designed planes for the Allied war effort. Many of these planes were iconic wartime designs like the Hawker Hurricane fighter and Avro Lancaster bomber.
Ambitious Canadian politicians and engineers weren’t satisfied with this. They decided to forge a world-leading aircraft manufacturing industry out of the factories and skilled workforce built up during the war. Tired of manufacturing aircraft designed by others, this new generation of Canadian leaders were determined to produce Canadian designs. Avro Aircraft, the Canadian airplane maker created after the war, was the company that would deliver their dream.
Freed from the set ways-of-thinking of Avro’s more established rivals, the firm’s engineers were able to work on revolutionary jet fighters, commercial airliners, flying saucers and even a space plane. They placed Canada at the technological cutting edge of the new Jet Age.
In so doing, these engineers challenged notions of what small countries like Canada could achieve in the hi-tech industries of the day, even if convincing politicians to stump up the cash for them was an altogether trickier business.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-breaking-jet-which-still-haunts-a-country
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170404-the-british-airliner-that-changed-the-world
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171018-the-soviet-unions-flawed-rival-to-concorde
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200617-the-largest-electric-plane-ever-to-fly
A beautiful sight! :up: Some links have I add up here also with other aircraft.