Shutting Down the National Dream: A. V. Roe and the Tragedy of the Avro Arrow [First ed.] 9780075528807
A love story of a nation, a plane, and a dream . . . In fourteen short, precocious years, from 1946 to 1959, A. V. Roe C
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Table of contents :
Shutting Down The National Dream: A. V. Roe and the Tragedy of the Avro Arrow......Page 1
Winner of the National Business Book Award......Page 3
Copyright......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
FOREWORD......Page 13
PROLOGUE......Page 17
1. The Business of War......Page 22
2. Battleships of the Air......Page 30
3. Takeover......Page 47
4. A Gather of Aeronautical Men......Page 62
5. Getting off the Ground......Page 72
6. Jets in Their Eyes......Page 90
7. Storm Clouds Gathering......Page 104
8. Stealing the Thunder......Page 118
9. The Quick and the Dead......Page 137
10. Rebirth: The Coming of Crawford Gordon......Page 154
11. High Flight......Page 174
12. Gods of the Air......Page 207
13. Coming of Age......Page 223
14. Vision of the North......Page 240
15. The Icarus Factor......Page 264
16. Overtaken by Events......Page 284
17. Scattered to the Wind......Page 300
Epilogue......Page 313
Appendix......Page 315
Notes......Page 325
Bibliography......Page 339
Index......Page 343
GREIG STEWART......Page 353
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