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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 1172.PDF
260 FLICH Conodoir CL-M Argu* Powerplant Four Wright Turbo-Compound Powerplant Span 142ft Span Length 122ft Length Gross weight 148,0001b Gross weight Max. speed 350 m.p.h. Cruising speed Canadair CL-44 a J^ O Canadair Sabre * Four Bristol Orion Powerplant Orenda 14 142ft Span 37ft 1 in about 130ft Length t (in 185,000/200.000 Ib Gross weight 16,0001b . over 440 m.p.h. Max. speed about 690 m.p.h. Manufacture of the big CL-28 Argus is on schedule at Canadair'i Montreal No. 1 Plant. The fifth, sixth and seventh are here seen on the line last month; the first contract included a total of 25 machines. The Canadian Industry . . . CANADAIR, LTD. P.O. Box 6087, Montreal. A DIVISION of General Dynamics Corporation of New York,Canadair is one of the two largest single aircraft companies in Canada, with approximately 9,000 employees and a total floor- space of about 3,000,000 sq ft. During the past twelve months production of the Sabre fighter and T-33 jet trainer has continued, and although the rate of delivery is considerably less than it was three years ago, both lines will continue for many months, as described below. Canadair's major aircraft programme concerns the CL-28 Argus, which is now in full production for the R.C.A.F.; the company also hold a firm order from the Canadian government for the CL-44 long-range turboprop transport. These aircraft are all described in more detail below. In company with other large airframe manufacturers, Canadair are entering other fields in order to increase their annual turnover. When it is fully developed, very large contracts may be placed for the CL-61 Rat, a "snowmobile" with extremely attractive charac- teristics which has been developed in prototype form for the past eighteen months. The company's Nuclear Division is engaged in several major programmes, including swimming-pool research re- actors rated at 1 MW and beta-ray spectrometers. Plant 4 in the corner of the company's airfield at Cartierville, Montreal, has been extensively altered for missile operations and contains both office and workshop areas, but no details may be published of its present activities. Canadair are also making the rear fuselage for the CS2F Tracker under sub-contract to de Havilland of Canada. At the end of the year, when 45 will have been delivered, this work will be passed to Enheat; it is probable, however, that Canadair will continue to manufacture the CS2F radome. A substantial contract for tooling—presumably for the F-105 Thunderchief—has been completed for Republic Aviation, and Canadair were also respon- sible for the conversion of a B-47 for use as a test-bed for Orenda Engines' Iroquois. Canadair have many projected aircraft designs but none are yet in receipt of contracts; even the question of a basic jet trainer for the R.C.A.F., for which the company prepared the CL-41 project, has not yet been resolved. Following the death of John Jay Hopkins, Frank Pace Jr. has been elected president of General Dynamics and chairman of the board of Canadair; J. Geoffrey Notman remains president of Canadair and senior vice-president of General Dynamics. During the past year a hangar extension has been completed for the accommodation of CL-28s, and ground has been broken for a major addition to the engineering test building. Building 114 has been selected for the consolidation of all Canadair purchasing and accounting functions, complete with centralized computing facilities. CL-28. Named Argus and bearing the R.C.A.F. designation CP-107, this aircraft is a long-range maritime-patrol derivative of the Bristol Britannia. It differs from the British aircraft very greatly in that it has a completely new unpressurized fuselage and Wright Turbo-Compound engines for low-altitude economy. The development of this aircraft has been one of the greatest aircraft engineering programmes yet tackled in the Dominion, and it is the largest aeroplane yet put into production anywhere in the British Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom itself. Not surprisingly, Canadair are retaining virtually all the airframe work for themselves. The first aircraft (there is no prototype) was rolled out last William Kidd, a Canadair production test pilot, with Sabre No. 7,59/— the first of 225 Orenda-Sabre 6s for the West German Air Force.
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