A combined Anglo-Canadian study (RCN and Admiralty) into the use of hydrofoils for anti-submarine work and coastal patrol craft began post war. This resulted in the de Havilland Hydrofoil R-200. A prototype, HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400) was completed in 1968 and was tested until she was...
I thought it might be time for a dedicated thread on the Upholder class subs in Canadian service. I'll start it off with this; Via HP&CA: Victoria submarine torpedo test fire marks milestone (The Vancouver Sun)
The fire damaged HMCS Chicoutimi, one of the Canadian military's four submarines...
Reportedly there was a project in Canada during WW2 referred to as the "Universal Scout Car" or "General Utility Project", which was to replace both the Scout Cars and the Light Recce Cars of the Canadian army.
The project is being mentioned here...
Filed in 1941 and approved for patent in 1945, the first tank was designed by Harry M. Pflager for GSCC seems based on the M4 though the application was filed after the U.S. Army had already selected the M4 design. Was this one of the competing designs which lost out?
The second, designed by...
Hi,
I found this BAe Robot-X in google books,what is this.
http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=bSq-cEf0EWsC&pg=PA180&dq=nasa+vtol+aircraft&hl=ar&ei=OdNrTK6VNoyVOJCHzVs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=true
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The Boeing RC-1, for Resource Carrier 1, was a joint development project of Boeing and the Great Plains Project, a think tank created by the Canadian government under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to develop the country's Far North. Of particular interest was extracting oil, natural gas...
Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of 280,000 blocks of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which was out of range of land-based planes.
This gigantic aircraft carrier, 2,000...
I came across this neat OSS briefing film referenced in the Wikipedia article on the M29 Weasel.
The 10 minute video--worth the wait, I promise--includes some discussion of the various alternative approaches to travel across ice and snow that were evaluated as well as a lot of footage of the...
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A pair of unbuilt Avro Canada projects from Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 by K.M. Molson (ISBN: 0370300955).
First, a 1955 design for a four-engined bizjet with CF-100 overtones. [Edit: presumably the "Small High-Speed Jet Transport" mentioned in Jim Floyd's summary of Avro Canada feasibilty...
Attached is a plan-view of a 1959 Avro Canada supersonic transport study. (From Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 by K.M. Molson, ISBN: 0370300955.) This STAT (Supersonic Trans-Atlantic Transport) study was listed as configuration 6, a transatlantic design carrying 80 passengers.
A number of online...
Hi,
I found this artist picture to Burnelli aircraft,it was four engined
transport aircraft with three booms,does anyone know it ?.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1944/1944%20-%200224.html
Hi,
the Canadair CL-45 was ASW helicopter project,CL-52 was Boeing B-47B
and CL-61 snow mobile project, what were the Canadair CL-65 (old design)
and CL-212 ?.
An old book of mine about the British Army mentions that the Army in 1962 were looking at the Canadian Heller Rocket launcher and the Carl Gustav 84mm from Sweden to replace its bazookas. The UK chose the Carl Gustav. Does anyone have any info and pictures of the Canadian contender?
UK 75
The CL-212s were hovercraft not aircraft. Two were built.
The clip below was taken from a Videotron page on Canadair special projects (alas, now 404):
http://pages.videotron.com/frfauch/Canadair/Website/specprod.html [Dead link]
Air Cushion Vehicles
Between 1964 and 1967, the company...
Some time ago in a website that in the meantime disappeared from the Internet I found several pictures of an armoured personnel carrier that had been designed (and built as a prototype) in Canada sometime in the 1950s. According to the website its designation was the XA-20. Unfortunately there...
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