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... Image:Velvet_Glove_Point_Petre_1954.jpg thumb '''Canadian Velvet Glove missile with rocket booster stage being tested at Point Petre Ontario 1954''' Dr. O. M. ... 1956 the programme was cancelled to be replaced by the U.S. designed Sparrow missile. Velvet Glove was engineered to the requirements outlined by CARDE and was built by Canadair in Montreal ...

... Canadian Armament Research & Development Establishment (CARDE) in Valcartier Quebec, where the Canadian-designed, and built, Velvet Glove air-to-air missile had been developed and which had highly sophisticated facilities for creating ... had done extensive work together on the Velvet Glove missile which was to have been used by the CF-100 and CF-105 fighters. Velvet Glove had been cancelled by the St Laurent government ...

... at Waltham Abbey. In 1950 CARDE began work on what would become the Velvet Glove air-to-air missile. Velvet Glove was to have been deployed in the CF-100 and CF-86 Sabres ... to the CF-105 but it would never be deployed. However the experience gained in Velvet Glove was put to good use and in 1954 CARDE created the Heller anti-tank missile ...

... . (Defence Research Board) for an air-to-air radar homing missile under the code name Velvet Glove . Canadair was ultimately appointed the prime contractor with the other major aircraft companies and important ... for the Canadian version of the Douglas Sparrow 2 missile. At the conclusion of the Velvet Glove programme, aside from the technical status of the missile, which was good considering the time ...

... UK and DeHavilland Canada set up a Guided Missile Division at Downsview to build the Velvet Glove air-to-air missile. $24 million would be spent on this program over the next ... sign Despite these costly cancellations the experience gained by DeHavilland's engineers while working on Velvet Glove would serve them well in the following years. With the cancellation of two missile programs ...

... George went in there and he ran the program with an iron hand, with a velvet glove. At that point in time I was asked—they brought a fellow in, they figured ...

... the Canadian and US defence establishments. Notable amongst its contracts were the development of the Velvet Glove air-to-air missile, the Sparrow missile, the Lockheed F-104G interceptor, the Black Brant ...

... of the rocket research arm of Canadair and had played a major role in the Velvet Glove program. At the event Dryden made a dazzling presentation of American space assets showing the ...

... '''Orenda Engines advertisement for Iroquois engine fitted to Boeing B-47 (circa 1958)''' Even the Velvet Glove missiles the Arrow would have carried would have used propellant designed by Dickinson and others ...

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