Word: canadair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's more galling economic problems: the chronic trade deficit with the U.S. To ease the strain, U.S. defense authorities have agreed to buy more defense supplies in Canada. Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has already placed an order for Bomarc components with Montreal's Canadair...
...MISSILES will be produced in a foreign country for first time. Douglas Aircraft will license Canadian firms to produce its supersonic Sparrow II air-to-air missile. General Dynamics' Canadair Ltd. will make Sparrow's airframe, and Canadian Westinghouse will turn out guidance system...
...turned out, Fairchild made no turkey callers-or corsets. Hopping into missiles, Fairchild soon found itself expanding its engine as well as its airframe business. The J83 engine soon proved so promising for light jet aircraft that General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary, Canadair Ltd., chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice...
Hopkins next cast his eye on a company that was nearly twice as big as both Canadair and Electric Boat together: California's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair), sixth largest U.S. airframe manufacturer. Convair-had been having its ups and downs, and Owner Floyd Odium ler in developing the hydrogen bomb...
...Geoffrey Notman, 56. Canadair's grizzled, square-jawed president, known as "willing horse" because of his 12-to-18 hour workday. Notman began his career as a junior engineer in Quebec, directed the production of airplanes, explosives, ships and guns for the Canadian government during the war; he was taken on as executive vice president in 1950, elected Canadair's president...