Essays Tagged: "RCAF"
CF 100 "Canuck".
CF 100 "Canuck"The RCAF named the CF-100 "Canuck", after the much earlier name Curtis JN-4 Canuck trainer of the First ... and the crews more often referred to the type as the 'Clunk' or the 'Lead Sled'. The CF 100 was the RCAF's second operational jet fighter replacing the De Havilland Vampire. The twin-engine jet, and a ... r of it's time. The role of this plane would be as a fighter and as an EW trainer. It served in the RCAF and in the CF. The CF 100's also served in Europe, with the Canadian and Belgium units. All of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
The royal canadian air force in world war 2.
The Royal Canadian Air Force During World War 2During world war 2 The Royal Canadian Air force (RCAF) became one of the most formidable Air forces in the world and became the fourth largest of the ... ping convoys off Dover. With the beginning of this attack the Battle of Britain had just begun. The RCAf sent it's only squadron to Britain, this and the Canadians serving in the RAF joined the battle ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
A description of the commencement and unexpected stop to the production of the canadian Avro Arrow by the US government.
r bomb threats were imminent and American citizens lived in fear that a nuclear war would begin.The RCAF was in need of a replacement for the fighter plane CF-100, which was too slow and heavy. Plans ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Avro Arrow "Avro Arrow" by Brent Wilson This is an essay about the short life of one of Canada's finest achievements, the Avro Arrow.
At the end of the Second World War, Canada was one of the world's major powers, and the RCAF, fearing of a "bomber gap," wanted a plane capable of flying higher and faster then anything th ... lizing that it needed a defense from the threat across the Pole, along with the swaggering post-war RCAF wanting a strong deterrent to counter the Soviet Union, gave the green light to Avro Canada, wh ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Avro Arrow project
ob Benson.The main reason behind the making of the Avro Arrow was because Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was looking for a better and superior replacement for their fighter planes.Yesterday, when the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Women In Canada
da despised the success of women at such jobs as airframe mechanics during the war. A member of the RCAF (women's division) explains, " one girl on our station who was an airframe mechanic-one of the ... d for Canada, they should have every right to choose what they wanted to do. A former member of the RCAF stated, "I want my own freedom, now, because I've proved that I'm smart as any other person&hel ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies