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Canada's bid for first place in North American jet transportation began in mid-1946 when the Jetliner plans were inked onto drawing boards. Avro's general manager, Walter N. Deisher, a U.S.-born naturalized Canadian and ex-barnstorming pilot, set his men to work. What they gave him was a 60,000-lb., 822-ft.-long craft with a wing span...
Said Manager Deisher, who predicted his jets would be flying commercial routes by 1951: "A momentous day for Canadian aviation...
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