Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980)

Directors

Michael Rubbo

The story

The new Canadair Challenger business jet, which emerged from a moribund aviation company in the 1970s, was a risky proposition when it was first conceived. Derived from a design by American inventor and aircraft developer Bill Lear, Canadair Chief Designer Harry Halton married a wide-body fuselage with a high-performance ("supercritical") wing and state-of-the-art engines. With banks and the then federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce Jean Chrétien requiring 50 "firm orders," a Canadair sales team was dispatched to sell a "paper aircraft" with only sales brochures, scale models and a wooden mock-up to go on.

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