In the usual musical chairs of company ownership this is the subsidiary of the British Dowty company set up in Canada in 1939. In 1995 it became part of a joint venture between French company Messier and Dowty then in 2005 the company was bought by Safron, became part of the Messier/Bugatti/Dowty group in 2011 and finally Safron Landing Systems in 2016.
History here.
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Presumably this was (the Canadian offspring of) the same Dowty that made slightly funny-looking (because v. long at rest) air-assisted telescopic forks for mosickles after WWII. My poorly informed opinion is that, in the case of those forks at least, the designers' thinking was a little ahead of its time: that contemporary materials, and maybe production facilities, weren't yet capable of making a seal to last tens o' thousands of miles. And/or maybe the forks failed to clear other, untechnological hurdles; does anybody know?
Interesting ugly advertisement. I'm glad to know that Canada had an all-weather fighter plane.
I posted because of the awkward ad. :-) That would be the same Dowty, Somewhere in the pile of magazines I have an article on those motorcycle units, I'll post it when I find it.
Looks like the aircraft taking off has blown the left engine, judging by the smoke trail behind it.
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