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Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
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Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54 Hardcover - 2011

by Randall Wakelam


From the publisher

The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on the Canadian imagination that earlier developments in defence procurement remain obscure. Randall Wakelam corrects this oversight - and offers fresh insight on the AVRO saga and contemporary procurement issues - by revealing how cabinet ministers, chiefs of staff, and air marshals negotiated competing pressures to arm the air force, please allies, and save money during a decade when Canada's air force was growing by leaps and bounds. The result was the CF-100 Canuck and the F-86 Sabre, Canada's front-line defensive aircraft in the coldest years of the Cold War.

From the jacket flap

The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on
the Canadian imagination that earlier developments in defence
procurement remain obscure. Randall Wakelam corrects this
oversight - and offers fresh insight on the AVRO saga and
contemporary procurement issues - by revealing how cabinet
ministers, chiefs of staff, and air marshals negotiated competing
pressures to arm the air force, please allies, and save money during a
decade when Canada's air force was growing by leaps and bounds.
The result was the CF-100 Canuck and the F-86 Sabre, Canada's
front-line defensive aircraft in the coldest years of the Cold War.

Details

  • Title Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
  • Author Randall Wakelam
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of British Columbia Press
  • Date 2011-11
  • ISBN 9780774821483 / 0774821485
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
  • Dewey Decimal Code 358.416

About the author

Colonel (ret'd) Randall Wakelam, PhD, teachesmilitary history and leadership at the Royal Military College of Canadaand is author of The Science of Bombing: Operational Research inRAF Bomber Command. A pilot in his service career, he also workedin aircraft procurement.