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Greig Stewart is the author of the best-selling book Shutting Down the National Dream, winner of the 1989 National Business Book award and the inspiration for the 1997 CBC mini-series, The Arrow.Greig grew up in that part of Toronto hardest hit by the layoffs resulting from termination of the Arrow program, the Mount Dennis/Weston area. As a child, he saw the Arrow on many of its test flights. he vividly recalls his father, a union member at Canadian Kodak, going door to door in the late winter of 1959, after the layoffs. Performing his union duty, he collected money for the Avro guys many of whom were about to lose their homes.Greig Stewart has been interviewed by national radio and television on the subject of the A.V. Roe Canada's airplanes and engines, and has contributed to numerous books and documentaries about the Avro Arrow. He lives on a farm in Crossland, Ontario.

Acknowledgements Foreward The Makings of A Mini-Series Prologue 1. The Business of War 2. Battleships of the Air 3. Takeover 4. A Gather of Aeronautical Men 5. Getting off the Ground 6. Jets in Their Eyes 7. Storm Clouds Gathering 8. Stealing the Thunder 9. The Quick and the Dead 10. Rebirth: The Coming of Crawford Gordon 11. High Flight 12. Gods of the Air 13. Coming of Age 14. Vision of the North 15. The Icarus Factor 16. Overtaken by Events 17. Scattered to the Wind Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index