Aviation in Canada: The CAE Story

Aviation in Canada: The CAE Story describes each era at CAE in detail. Not only are CAE's always-exciting aviation activities covered, but so is the story of its many subsidiaries during one spate of diversification after another. You'll read how CAE got into and out of everything from consumer goods to metallurgy, railroad and auto parts, heavy forestry and construction equipment, aircraft manufacturing, and overhauling everything from the C-130 to the CL-41, F-84, T-33, T-39 and Viscount. Along the way came controversies and upheavals, including a decades-long battle over a USAF contract.

Aviation in Canada: the CAE Story covers all the great CAE personalities from legendary founder Ken Patrick onward, ad all the key products, whether flight simulators, power plant or ship control systems, vital anti-submarine products for the Cold War, and indispensable controls for the Canadarm used on the Shuttle and ISS. The story brings the reader into the modern era, covering CAE's line of world-class technology products and a global network of simulation training centres and flying schools.

Readers are familiar with the histories of Avro, Canadair, De Havilland Canada and Pratt & Whitney Canada. Authors, however, sometimes have fixated on glitzy aviation highlights such as the Avro Arrow. To bring in some balance, here is a hefty book overflowing with other important achievements in Canada's high technology industry.