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AVRO Arrow: THE STORY OF THE AVRO ARROW FROM ITS EVOLUTION TO ITS EXTINCTION, Richard Organ, Ron Page, Don Watson, Les Wilkinson.
("The Arrowheads"), 1980, Boston Mills Press, ISBN 0-919822-35-5
(Hardcover Printings) ISBN: 1550460471 Paperback Reprint Published: July 2004 From the Publisher: This book is about the plane, not the politics. You’ll understand why when you open this book about the most controversial fighter plane in history. Lots of color photographs and two fold-out diagrams. |
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Arrow Scrapbook, (The), Peter Zuring, 1999, Arrow Alliance Press, ISBN 1-55056-690-3 Hardcover · Published: May 1999 From Chapter's Editors: It was the most amazing airplane ever made in Canada. Uncover the mystery and myth surrounding the Avro Arrow in this definitive collection of rarely seen photos, drawings, letters and original documents. Arrow Scrapbook sets the record straight on statements that the Arrow was 20 years ahead of its time; that Diefenbaker cancelled it; that it cost too much and Canada couldn't afford it; and that nobody wanted it. Peter Zuuring offers the truth about this incredible plane and describes plans to re-create the mythic Arrow in Canada for 2009, the 100th anniversary of flight. |
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Arrow Countdown by Peter Zuuring ISBN: 1550463578 Hardcover · Published: June 2001 ISBN: 1550568663 Hardcover · Published: December 2001 Published by Arrow Alliance Press This excellent book is the first in a series of books that detail the rebuilding of Canada's most famous airplane, the Avro Arrow . Since the publishing of Zuuring's ground-breaking Arrow Scrapbook in 1999, thousands of books have been sold to interested readers . As a result many more hidden parts, plans, reports, photos, etc., have surfaced making the dream of having our Arrow back in the sky is a distinct reality . In this first Countdown: learn all about Arrow supersonic flight from those who were there - featuring "Spud" Potocki . Follow cockpit development with never-before-seen detailed photos and Institute for Aviation Medicine studies . Read about plans to rebuild the Arrow and how it can be accomplished, includes sample Technical Bulletin . More vignettes - some highlights: walk arounfd stricken Arrows . Arrow technology for TSR2 . Iroquois engine recovery in the UK . Engines sold provide $2,000,000 slush fund . Arrow accident and molecular physics and much more . . " |
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Test Flying the Arrow by Jan Zurakowski, Publisher: Canadian Aviation Historical Society, Weston, Ontario Publication Date: 1983 Binding: Trade Paperback Illustrator: Stroomenbergh, Jan Description: A talk by Jan Zurakowski, principal test pilot of the Avro Arrow given to the Toronto Chapter of The Canadian Aviaton Historical Society. |
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The Last Flight of the Arrow by Daniel Wyatt. ISBN: 0-345-36594-1 Soft Cover, Ballantine Books, Toronto, 1990, (Fiction) "When a spy revealed Soviet plans for an air strike over North America, the United States and Canada realized there was only one chance to avert disaster, a mission that only the Avro Arrow could fly. The public thought production on the Arrow had been terminated. The public was wrong. From deep in the wilds of the Canadian tundra, the most sophisticaticated supersonic fighter of its time took off on a daring high-tech mission over the heart of Russia. As the planet teetered on the edge of World War III, the Arrow raced to its fateful target - in this chillingly credible drama of nonstop tension." |
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Chasing the Arrow by Charles Reid. ISBN: 0888784392 Paperbound · Published: September 2000 Published by Beach Holme Publishing From the Publisher: Robbie Carter is adjusting to his new life in late-1950s Toronto with his single mother, an engineer with the airplane manufacturer A. V. Roe. One night, waking to the buzz of voices, Robbie creeps downstairs and makes an astonishing discovery. His mother and her colleagues are working on plans for the Avro Arrow, a new fighter jet capable of unheard-of speeds! Determined not to miss a word, Robbie continues to spy on their meetings. Soon his happy family life changes for the worse when he’s forced to enter a new school. Plagued by the unwanted attention of Rollie Briggs, the school bully who insults his mother, Robbie longs for escape in the form of proof of her involvement in the top-secret Arrow project. But from the worried murmurs he hears late at night, he knows all is not well. Something is in the wind, and Robbie has a front-row seat on the political in-fighting and controversy swirling around the Arrow. The question is: Can any of the project be saved? What’s more, will Robbie confront Rollie Briggs once and for all? |
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ARROW THROUGH THE HEART: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CRAWFORD. GORDON AND THE AVRO ARROW Grieg Stewart ISBN: 0075601028 Published By: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited From Chapters Editors Do you remember the Avro Arrow? Argument persists whether Crawford Gordon was one of the greatest industrialists in Canada or whether he was just a canny political cowboy who herded the imagination of an entire country into his corral of moneymaking junkets. Regardless of your opinion, the fact remains that his accomplishments were considerable. Greig Stewart examines the life and times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow in Arrow Through the Heart. |
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SafetyScape - AVRO Arrow pictures Fun and Games and Airplanes: Gerald Barbour has written a book about his experiences working at the AVRO Aircraft plant in Malton during the exciting times when the AVRO Arrow, the AVRO Jetliner and the Canuck, were being designed and built. |
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The Arrow: AVRO CF-105 Mk.1, Pilot's Operating Instructions and RCAF
Testing/Basing Plans. Forward by Lieutenant Colonel T.F.J. Leversedge. ISBN 1-55046-293-8 Paperback · Published: September 1999, Published by Boston Mills Press ISBN: 1550463101 Paperback · Published: September 1999, Published by Warwick Publishing From the Publisher: Boston Mills is delighted to publish, in one volume, a copy of the original AVRO Arrow Pilot Operating Instructions manual and the previously unpublished RCAF Testing/Basing Plans. The special edition includes CD ROM with 22-minute AVRO Story video, CF-100 and other video clips, slide show with over 350 Canadian aviation and Arrow-era photos, 100 heritage b&w photos dating to 1902, Arrow screensavers, plus Windows 98 media player. |
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Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow by Palmira Campagna. Paperback - Published: June 2003 ISBN: 1550024388 - Published by Dundurn Press From the Publisher: 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 spiraling out of control as historians have maintained? These questions and many others are put to rest in Requiem for a Giant. |
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The Avro Arrow Story: The Revolutionary Airplane and It's Courageous Test Pilots (Amazing Stories)
by Bill Zuk Paperback · Published: August 2004 ISBN: 1551539780 · Published by Altitude Publishing Canada, Limited From the Jacket: “These dedicated men and women gave blood, sweat, and tears as their contribution — And now, it really happened, our beloved bird was in the air.” — Ray Boone, A.V. Roe Canada employee. This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in history, aviation, business. In the 1950s, A. V. Roe Canada was at the forefront of aviation development worldwide. After building one of the first jet airliners and completing production of Canada's first jet fighter, the company was poised to launch its most revolutionary design — the Avro Arrow. Despite the efforts of courageous test pilots and some of the world’s best designers, engineers, and technicians, the dream was shattered. |
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The Avro Arrow Story: The Impossible Dream (Junior Edition) By Bill Zuk 8.5 x 5.5 paperback 64 pages ISBN-10:1-55439-703-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-55439-703-7 |
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The Avro Arrow Manipulation by Will, Dr. Cupchik Paperback · Published: January 2005 ISBN: 1896342191 · Published by Tagami Communications |
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Shutting Down the National Dream : A.V. Roe and the Tragedy of the Avro Arrow by Greig Stewart ISBN: 0075528800 Paperback ISBN: 0075601028 Hardcover · Published: October 1998 Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited From Chapters Editors: Do you remember the Avro Arrow? Argument persists whether Crawford Gordon was one of the greatest industrialists in Canada or whether he was just a canny political cowboy who herded the imagination of an entire country into his corral of moneymaking junkets. Regardless of your opinion, the fact remains that his accomplishments were considerable. Greig Stewart examines the life and times of Crawford Gordon and the Avro Arrow in Arrow Through the Heart. |
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Made for Canada: The Story of Avro's Arrow by Joan Dixon, Nikolas Dixon Kostyan ISBN: 0968859607 Paperback · Published: September 2001 Published by Arrow 2000 Project From the Publisher: Boston "Home of the Arrow" Mills is happy to distribute this delightful book aimed at school-age aviation enthusiasts. |
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Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed by Palmiro Campagna ISBN: 0773759905 Paperback · Published: September 1998 ISBN: 0773756035 Hardcover ISBN: 0773726497 Hardcover · Published: January 1992 From Chapter's Editors: It captured the imagination of a nation, the sleek, sophisticated Avro Arrow fighter. And when the Canadian government decided to destroy it, a nation protested. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker took sole responsibility for the decision, yet recent investigations prove that many government officials were involved in the matter -- including some from the American government. Palmiro Capagna explores the mysterious death of the Arrow in Storms of Controversy. |
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Flying the Avro Arrow by Jack Woodman Publisher: Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (1978) ASIN: B0007B3MTS |
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Fall of an Arrow by Murray Peden Published by Stoddart Publishing ISBN: 1550024531 Paperback · Published: January 2003 ISBN: 077375105X Paperback · Published: January 1987 From the Publisher: On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced to the House of Commons the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow. Its development costs to that time were $340 million. The Arrow was to be the world’s unsurpassed interceptor aircraft. Yet within two months of the Prime Minister’s announcement, six completed aircraft were dismantled and all papers and documents associated with the project were destroyed. Here is the history and development of the Arrow – the plane that would make Canada the leader in supersonic flight technology. The Arrow was designed to fly at twice the speed of sound and carry the most advanced missile weapons system. Here are the stories of the men and women who were in the vanguard of the new technology – who had come from England, Poland, and the United States to make aviation history. |
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The Arrow by James Dow ISBN: 1550285548 Paperback · Published: January 1997 ISBN: 0-88862-281-1 Published by James Lorimer & Co. From the Publisher: This is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the Arrow, the legendary interceptor jet aircraft, developed by A.V. Row in the 1950s. |
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Arrow Plans by Thomas Dugelby ISBN: 1550462776 Hardcover · Published: April 2001 Published by Boston Mills Press From Chapter's Editors: The Avro Arrow was one of the most controversial aircraft of all time. Thomas Dugelby shows readers how to build one in their own basements—almost—with Arrow Plans. It contains a series of information on this airplane, with details on the cockpit, undercarriage, wing structure, fuselage, landing gear, engines, tail cone, brakes, hydraulic systems, missiles and air-to-air rockets. Dugelby presents research and development reports, as well as testing data and tooling information. The volume contains 300 technical drawings and will be of great interest to all airplane aficionados. |
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Arrow Rollout 45 Year Memorial Photo Album by Peter Zuuring ISBN: 1-55056-902-3 Published by Arrow Alliance Press, October 2002 Arrow Rollout celebrates 45 years of Arrow manufacture and rollout on October 4, 1957. This memorial B/W photo album includes many never-before-seen photos, speeches, and press reactions to what was then going to be the fastest jet fighter in the world. Follow the most complete manufacturing sequence yet presented as well as that sunny Friday afternoon celebration, step by step...you are there. The 8 X 10 inch high resolution photos will please avid collectors and Arrow fans at large. |
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Arrow First Flight 45 Year Memorial Photo Album by Peter Zuuring ISBN: 1-55056-903-1 Published by Arrow Alliance Press, October 2002 Arrow First Flight celebrates 45 years of the first-flight of the Arrow on March 25, 1958. This memorial B/W photo album starts with the Arrow free flight models at Pte. Petrie, Ontario and follows the taxi trials and troubleshooting while preparing the Arrow for that day - you are there at 9:51 am as the Arrow lifts iff runway #32 at Malton. Massed scenes of appreciation are yours to enjoy. The 8 X 10 inch high resolution photos are a pleasure to behold. Janus Zurakowski is the man...follow his Tuesday with interest. |
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Iroquois Rollout 45 Year Memorial Photo Album by Peter Zuuring ISBN: 1-55056-906-6 Published by Arrow Alliance Press, October 2002 Iroquois Rollout celebrates 45 years of Iroquois engine manufacture and rollout on July 22, 1957. The Iroquois was lightest, highest-thrust jet engine of the day. Many innovations were developed by Charles Grinyer and his staff, not least of which was the extensive use of titanium, revolutionary two-bearing construction, the first variable-pitch stator blades and many more. Although its manufacture and rollout was more low key than the Arrow, the stunning high resolution photos make the whole business come alive. This memorial album will thrill all Arrow fans since so little of the Iroquois has been recorded to date. |
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Arrows by Mark Robbins and Brian Smith. 1996 by The Avro "ARROWHEAD" Formation. Six easy to build paper models.. that really fly! Also A hanger model. Forward is written by Jan Zurakowski. Dedicated to all former employees of AVRO and all other companies who participated in the production of the mighty AVRO ARROWS. Collectively they stand as a true inspiration for all of us who are proud to dream, proud to strive for excellence and mostly, proud to call ourselves Canadian. |
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The Avro Arrow Affair by C. L. Heide ISBN: 1896266886 Hardcover · Published: January 1998 Published by Lugus Publications From Chapter's Editors: At the height of the Cold War, Canada's Avro Arrow design promised to push aviation technology forward and to cement the nation's place on the international stage. However, many of the jet interceptors were found to be dangerous, and when Diefenbaker's government cancelled the project, thousands of technicians were put out of work and all the planes built up to that point became useless. Lee Heide's The Avro Arrow Affair recreates the world of the East/West arms race, and is set against a backdrop of subterfuge and espionage. |
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Avro: The History of an Aircraft Company by Harry Holmes ISBN: 1861266510 Hardcover · Published: October 2004 Published by Crowood Press From the Publisher The story of A.V. Roe and company Ltd (Avro) begins in the very earliest years of aviation, only three years after man's first powered flight. Alliot Verdon Roe was one of Britain's pioneer aviators and in 1910 he founded the company that bears his name. Famous for well-designed, reliable airplanes, Avro's greatest achievements were two bombers - the Lancaster and the Vulcan, which captivate public imagination to this day. World-renowned Avro expert Harry Holmes has written the complete history of this much-loved manufacturer, from the earliest years to the recent revival of the Avro name by BAE. First published in 1994, Avro - The History of an Aircraft Company' has been updated and completely re-illustrated for this new edition, which deserves a place on the bookshelf of everyone interested in British aviation. |
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Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race by Chris Gainor ISBN: 1896522831 Paperback · Published: October 2001 Published by Apogee Books From the Publisher: On February 20, 1959, the Canadian government shut down the CF-105 Avro Arrow jet interceptor program, putting the cream of Canada¹s aerospace engineering talent out of work. Many of the Avro engineers had just arrived in Canada from Great Britain. A brand new organization called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was charged with putting U.S. astronauts into space, and in 1959 it desperately needed engineering talent. Within 10 weeks of the demise of the Arrow, 25 Avro engineers were working for NASA, and another seven joined them later. Other Avro engineers found work with the aerospace contractors that built spacecraft and boosters for NASA. A little more than 10 years later, U.S. astronauts were standing on the surface of the Moon in the climax of one of the greatest stories of technology and exploration in human history. Arrows to the Moon tells for the first time the story of the Canadian and British engineers from Avro Canada who played key roles in putting Americans on the Moon and in building today's U.S. space program, including the space shuttle and the International Space Station. Other Canadian contributions to Apollo and a chapter on the Canadian space program are also included. Arrows to the Moon is the final chapter in one of the most compelling stories in Canada's history. How the demise of Canada's national dream contributed to one of the greatest triumphs in American history. |
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Avro Aircraft and Cold War Aviation by Randall Whitcomb ISBN-10: 1551250829 ISBN-13: 978-1551250823 Publisher: Vanwell Publishing (April 2004), Paperback his book is definitely not another rehash of old Avro Arrow material! It covers the entire history of Avro Canada, includes much about Avro in Britain and about advanced aviation progress in the United States. Its sub-plots involve the aerospace race of the 20th century set in global political aspects. The reader will discover the exciting advances in aviation over the last century and be able to assess the impact of the Avro story as a result. Statistical comparisons of Avro's products to the benchmark products of the American competition provide the most shocking evidence of how advanced the Avro actually was. Examines the C-102, CF-100 and the CF-105 Arrow interceptor through exceptionally detailed technical and aerodynamic discussions, and the political and economic factors at work in the demise of the Arrow. Most particularly the author focuses on the staggering front-line achievements of the A.V. Roe Company, later Avro Canada Ltd. His own stunning artwork illustrates the book. |
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A Day In The Life: Janusz Zurakowski From Avro Arrow to Arrow Drive
by Marek Kusiba. ISBN 0-9733641-0-6 Paperback Published: 2003 Published by Adres Press Ltd. Conversations with Janusz Zurakowski with Marek Kusiba covering the life of Janusz Zurakowski |
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Nie tylko o lataniu (Not Only About Flying) by J. Zurakowski In Spring 2002, "the Polish Canadian Publishing Fund" published Janusz Zurakowski's memoirs - a book written by him and his wife Anna. The title "Nie tylko o lataniu" ("Not only about flying") says a lot about the content. The book can be purchased in Polish bookstores across Canada. It's also available in many branches of the Public Library in Canada. (Written in Polish with the Publisher's note in English) Wiosna 2002, "Polsko Kanadyjski Fundusz Wydawniczy" opublikowal wspomnienia Janusza Zurakowskiego - ksiazke napisana przez niego i zone Anne. Tytul "Nie tylko o lataniu" mowi wiele o tym czego moze spodziewac sie czytelnik. Ksiazka jest do nabycia w Polskich Ksiegarniach na terenie Kanady, a takze mozna ja znalezc w wielu oddzialach Biblioteki Publicznej w Kanadzie. (Napisana po polsku z angielskim wprowadzeniem od Wydawcy) |
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There Never Was An Arrow by E.K. Shaw ISBN: 0-88791-020-3 Published by Steel Rail Education Publishing |
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