Requiem for a Giant

A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow

Palmiro Campagna

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Dundurn Group Ltd
31 July 2003

Aviation manufacturing industry

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.

By: Palmiro Campagna
Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781550024388
ISBN 10: 1550024388
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 31 July 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.