Английская Википедия:Avro Canada CF-103
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The Avro Canada CF-103 was a proposed Canadian interceptor, designed by Avro Canada in the early 1950s as a development, and possible replacement of the company's CF-100 Canuck, that was entering service at the time with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).[1] Although intended to be capable of flying at transonic speeds, the CF-103 only offered a moderate increase in performance and capability over the CF-100; subsequently, the aircraft never progressed beyond the mock-up stage.[2]
Design and development
Even before the prototype of the CF-100 had flown, Avro Canada was conducting studies of potential advanced variations of the aircraft,[3] as the RCAF was seeking an interceptor with greater high-speed performance.[4] Due to the perceived limitations of the CF-100's original "thick", straight wing, Chief Designer John Frost proposed a series of refinements that included a thinner swept wing.[4] In December 1950, the Avro Aircraft Design Office decided to proceed with a redesign, primarily incorporating the early series CF-100 fuselage structure with a new swept wing and tail surfaces as part of the C-100S design study.[3][N 1]
Frost considered the new design as an interim aircraft between the CF-100 and the more advanced C-104 project.[3] The salient changes to the basic wing planform were in decreasing its chord and thickness, and adding a 42° sweep to the leading edge, creating a near-delta wing configuration. The tail surfaces were also swept back.[6] One version that was considered featured two streamlined fuel tanks blended into the leading edge of the wings near the three/quarter position.[7][N 2]
Despite the use of more powerful engines, the redesign had very modest performance specifications, with a planned maximum diving speed of Mach 0.95, scarcely better than the placarded Mach 0.85 speed limit of the production CF-100 Mk 2 and Mk 3.[2] Avro executives, recognizing that the company had already suffered due to the protracted development of the CF-100, determined that Frost's revised design would provide a "hedge" against the CF-100's failure to secure long-term contracts.[7]
In 1951, the Canadian Department of Trade and Commerce issued an order for two prototypes and a static test airframe, under the CF-103 project designation. Jigs, tools and detailed engineering drawings were in place by June 1951, with wind tunnel testing, conducted at Cornell University, completed by November 1951.[3] Although a wooden mock-up of the CF-103 was built, along with a separate cockpit area and engine section that was partially framed in, the mock-up did not feature an undercarriage unit nor any interior fittings.[8] Two different tail designs were fitted with the initial effort only having a swept leading edge of the tail, while the definitive version had a much more raked appearance.[7] The engineering and installation requirements for the CF-103's proposed Orenda 17 jet engines were not finalized, as the experimental "hybrid" using an Orenda 8 compressor unit and Orenda 11 two-stage turbine, matched to a "reheat" unit, had not been fully developed.[N 3]
Cancellation
During 1951, flight tests carried out by Chief Development Test Pilot S/L Janusz Żurakowski and other members of the Flight Test unit, revealed the development potential of the CF-100 had outstripped the intended performance envelope of the CF-103, while Frost and the Design Office became preoccupied with more sophisticated designs as potential replacements for the CF-100.[5] [N 4] Work on the CF-103 stalled, with the maiden flight originally scheduled for the summer of 1952, postponed to mid-1953.[3] With Cold War pressures mounting, the Canadian government demanded that production of the latest CF-100 fighter, as well as developing more advanced variants of the Canuck should predominate, leading the Avro company to curtail the moribund CF-103 project in December 1951.[1] [N 5]
Although the mock-up languished in the experimental bay at the factory, a dramatic event served to preclude any attempt to restart the project.[12] On 18 December 1952, from a height of 33,000 ft (10,000 m), Żurakowski dived the CF-100 Mk 4 prototype (RCAF Serial No. 18112) to Mach 1.06.[6] His "unauthorized" test flight[N 6] resulted in the final scrapping of the mock-up.[14]
Specifications
See also
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References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Campagna, Palmiro. Requiem for a Giant: A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2003. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Milberry, Larry. The Avro CF-100. Toronto: CANAV Books, 1981. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Milberry, Larry. Sixty Years: The RCAF and CF Air Command 1924-1984. Toronto: CANAV Books, 1984. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Page, Ron. Canuck: CF-100 All Weather Fighter. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1981. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Page, Ron, Richard Organ, Don Watson and Les Wilkinson ("The Arrowheads"). Avro Arrow: The Story of the Avro Arrow from its Evolution to its Extinction. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1979, reprinted Stoddart, 2004. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Stewart, Greig. Shutting Down the National Dream: A.V. Roe and the Tragedy of the Avro Arrow. Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1991. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Valiquette, Marc-Andre. Destruction of a Dream: The Tragedy of Avro Canada and the CF-105 Arrow, Volume 1. Montreal: Marc-Andre Valiquette (self-published), 2009. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Zuk, Bill. Avrocar, Canada's Flying Saucer: The Story Of Avro Canada's Secret Projects. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2001. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Zuk, Bill. Janusz Zurakowski: Legends in the Sky. St. Catharine's, Ontario: Vanwell, 2004. Шаблон:ISBN.
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Milberry 1984, p. 317.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Milberry 1981, p. 48.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 Page et al. 2004, p. 11.
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Campagna 2003, p. 55.
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Zuk 2001, p. 28.
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 Milberry 1981, p. 49.
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 7,3 Valiquette 2009, p. 74.
- ↑ Page 1981, p. 70.
- ↑ Page 1981, p. 68.
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- ↑ Milberry 1981, pp. 48–49.
- ↑ Stewart 1991, p. 228.
- ↑ Zuk 2004, p. 184.
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