Storms of Controversy

The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed

Palmiro Campagna, Richard Rohmer

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English

Dundurn Group Ltd
30 July 2010

Military aircraft; Aircraft: general interest

The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the prototypes? And did Arrow technology find its way into the American Stealth fighter/bomber program?

When Storms of Controversy was first published in 1992, its answers to these questions sent a shock wave across the country. Using never-before-released documents, the book exploded the myth that design flaws, cost overruns, or obsolescence had triggered the demise of the Arrow.

Now, in this fully revised fourth edition, complete with two new appendices, the bestselling book brings readers up-to-date on the CF-105 Arrow, the most innovative, sophisticated aircraft the world had seen by the end of the 1950s.

By: Palmiro Campagna
Foreword by: Richard Rohmer
Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: Fourth Edition
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 439g
ISBN: 9781554886982
ISBN 10: 1554886988
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 July 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Palmiro Campagna works for the Department of National Defence and has acted as Canadian representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the area of electromagnetics in military aircraft. He is the author of the bestselling The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed as well as Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow. He lives in Ottawa.

Reviews for Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed

What Campagna set his focus on are the factors leading the Avro's abrupt end. As far as that is concerned, this book is an essential source is as readable as it is fascinating. - Esprit de Corps magazine (Canada), June 2011