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1958
1958-1- - 0262.PDF
266 FLIGHT, 22 August 1958 CL-M: Powerplant. 2 Napier Eland;span, 105ft 4in; length, 81ft 6in; gross weight, 53,2001b; cruisingspeed, 325 m.p.h. CL-2S Argue Powerplant, 4 WrightTurbo-Compound; span, 142ft 3^in; length, 128ft 3in; gross weight,148,000 Ib; cruising speed, 230 m.p.h. .. . _ _ na. CL-44: Powerplant, 4 Rolls-RoyceTyne; span, 142ft 3|in; length, 136ft 9in; gross weight, 205,0001b;cruising speed, 368-375 m.p.h. Hie Canadian Industry ... at Comox, British Columbia, to replace Lancasters. CL-44. While the Argus is the largest aircraft to be producedin any Commonwealth country outside the United Kingdom, tooling and component manufacture is well advanced at Canadairfor an even bigger machine, the CL-44 long-range transport. Designated CC-106 by the R.C.A.F., who have ordered eight, theaircraft was originally planned as a logical Britannia development, to be powered by four Bristol Orions. When development of this CL-41: Powerplant, Fairchitd J83: span36ft 4in; length, 32ft; gross weight,6,500 Ib: max. speed, 445 m.p.h. Above, new-type radome fitted to the 74th Argus; below, Sparrow 2 air-to-air missile, for which Canadair is co-ordinating contractor. engine stopped, Canadair chose the Rolls-Royce Tyne. Gross weight of the CL-44 is 205,000 lb, compared with 148,000 lb for the Argus. Delivery of the first CL-44 should be made in November next year, and the company hopes to market commercial versions of the type. CL-66. An R.C.A.F. order for ten CL-66 Canadair-built Eland-powered conversions of the Convair 440 was announced in February this year. Since then production tooling for Convair 440airframes has been transferred from Convaii and installed at Canadair (both companies are members of the General DynamicsCorporation), and this medium-range transport should be in full production by mid-1959. The commercial version of the CL-66 which the company isoffering was originally known as the Cosmopolitan, but is now simply the Canadair 540. CL-41. Canadair's ability to produce—or adapt, redesign andproduce—other people's designs has been well demonstrated over the past ten years, and now the CL-41 jet trainer is about to showwhat the company can do by way of completely original design. Two prototypes, each powered by a Fairchild J83 engine, areapproaching completion at Cartierville and should fly before the end of the year. The company is naturally looking towards the R.C.A.F., whohave a requirement for a jet trainer but who have kept very quiet about it in recent years, for an initial production order for theCL-41. Production versions, the company state, can be supplied with either the Fairchild J83, General Electric J85, Pratt andWhitney JT-12 or Armstrong Siddeley Viper, and a version of the Rolls-Royce RB.108 has also been proposed. Sabre. Canadair's production of Sabres is finally being phased- out this autumn. The completion of the West German govern- ment's order for 225 Sabre 6s brings to a total of over 1,800 the Sabres Mks 1-6 produced in the past nine years. T-33. With the completion in January next of a current contractfor the R.C.A.F., Canadair plans to phase-out the production of its T-33 Nene-powered Silver Star advanced jet trainer. More than700 have been built, under licence from Lockheed, since 1950. Sparrow 2. The build-up of Canadair's guided missile organ-ization began in 1951 with a small staff of engineers who provided technical assistance to government establishments in the designand development stages of the Velvet Glove air-to-air missile. After five years this evolved into Canadair acting as the co-ordinat-ing contractor of the final development, test and evaluation of the missile and the test firings at Cold Lake, Alberta. In April 1957 Canadair was appointed co-ordinating contractorin the Canadian production of the Sparrow 2 air-to-air missile (the manufacturing license of which had been obtained fromDouglas Aircraft and Bendix Aviation through the U.S. Govern- ment), which had been adopted for the Arrow. The initialproduction schedule involves the manufacture and test of a number of test vehicles, each batch having a specific purpose and functionto perform in the evaluation and test of the missile and the system. These will be followed by the main production run. The second main contractor with Canadair is CanadianWestinghouse, and among the subcontractor companies are Sperry, Aviation Electric, de Havilland and Computing Devices.
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