Talk:Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

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WCFrancis 21:06, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

New rewrite

Maury, you have done a splendid job in adding details to the article. It may be a bit much for the layman but you have essentially identified the problems in trying to make a frisbee fly, which is the problem that absorbed and drove the creative mind of John C.M. Frost. I will add some further details especially about the "black" funding provided by the C.I.A. and the bizarre "Project Ladybird" connections to the story. A lot of what came about was due to the genius of John C.M. Frost and you might want to look at the article posted on Wikipedia related to his flying saucers and other creations. I intend to nominate John Frost for inclusion in the Cnadian Aviation Hall of Fame. Care to second the nomination? Bzuk Wednesday 10:02 27 December 2006 (UTC).See my comments on your discussion page.

So in the end, what do you think of the result? I think it's actually pretty good overall, but as always, I have that feeling in the pit of my stomach that something vital might be missing. Do you think we've nailed it? Maury 00:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)]

Maury, this is a very readable, interesting article and the only thing that is really missing is citations to reference sources throughout the body of the text. Bzuk 03:44 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Failed GA

A very interesting and informative article, but two inline citations is not nearly enough for an article of this length and technical detail. Also, while it is well-written on the whole, there are a few instances of informal phrasing that make it seem not quite encyclopedic ("technical fortress," for instance) and a few places where it needs copyediting. This sentence, for instance, has a couple of problems as well as an external jump that should be converted to a footnote: "In 1955, an extensive article appeared in Look Magazine was published, that, among other claims, speculated that current UFO sitings were Soviet-built saucers, which looking remarkably similar to Frost's all-disk aircraft."

With citations and a good copyediting, the article should make GA with no trouble. Please do resubmit it when you've made the changes. MLilburne 10:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I would also add that for an article of this length, and with such a unique subject, there should probably be more pictures. There are currently only 3 (one of which has TOP SECRET written across it, for some reason), and it could use several more. --JerryOrr 13:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, now that there's 50 inlines, I'd say it's time we tried for FA. Really, this is the best article on the topic available anywhere on the 'net. It deserves recognition. Maury (talk) 01:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Added to WP:GAR. Maury (talk) 01:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it's a little way short of FA yet, well worth another try at GA though. But you should just renominate it at WP:GAN, no need for a review. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 02:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

2nd GAC review.

Hi! I'm reviewing the article for WP:GAC - it's improved immensely since last time around. I found (and fixed) one spelling mistake - but that was about the extent of my problems! One change I'd like to see (although it's not going to stop me from passing it) would be to switch over the references from a simple <ref> xxxx </ref> to using the more recent <ref>{{ cite book | xxxx }}</ref> so that references can follow a standard format with author names, etc. That's not a requirement for GA status though. (See: Template:Cite/doc for details on how to use the various citation templates.

Good work! I look forward to seeing this nominated for WP:FAC.

SteveBaker (talk) 16:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposed move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was no consensus. —harej (talk) 08:05, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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VZ-9 AV Avrocar → Avro Canada VZ-9 AV Avrocar — Typically aircraft are recognized by the manufacturer's name and common name. In this case, Avro Canada is important to the title s it designated the company while the VZ-9 AV designation is the way the project was "buried" while "Avrocar" was also in common use. In order to give the article its true designation, it is better written as "Avro Canada VZ-9 AV Avrocar". FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Just a minor point but the AV in the designation VZ-9-AV is just the US code for Avro Canada, all US mil designators have it but I dont know of any article that uses it in the title (like P-51-NA Mustang!). MilborneOne (talk) 19:41, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

No other US-based VZ designation has the manufacturer's code as this was specifically put in by the Project Office in Dayton, Ohio to recognize that this was a joint US-Canadian program. This makes the VZ-9 AV designation unusual and the reason behind referring to its full designation. FWiW, it was actually "AV for Avro", in a kind of a nisnomer for the company as it really was a product of the Avro Aircraft Ltd. so it would have been AA? or a product of A.V. Roe Canada (Avro Canada). I know, trivial and silly information but nonetheless, the reason for its inclusion. Bzuk (talk) 20:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

BillZ, they ALL have the manufacture code, it is simply not used in most situations. That's the point you're mssing here. And the codes were not misnomers, just two-letter coded assigned based om the manufacturer's name. It's possible "AA" was already taken, but since the US Army didn't use British Avro arcraft, it probably just didn't matter. The correct article title should be VZ-9 Avrocar. - BillCJ (talk) 20:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, they don't in the VZ-series. A special compensation was made to use the designation with the manufacturer's code given. It was the subject of a number of meetings that took place between the Canadian design office and the US project office. I had pointedly asked survivors of the project about this oddity and was given to understand that a special designation would be in place to identify the Canadian connection in the project. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 20:15, 21 June 2009 (UTC).

Sorry to labour/belabor a point but VZ-1-UH, VZ-2-BV, VZ-3-RY, VZ-4-DA, VZ-5-FA, VZ-7-AP, VZ-8-PH, VZ-9-AV . MilborneOne (talk)

Mil, Bill, true enough, but as you said, mostly a formal designation, rarely used, while I found numerous official documents with the full code. Here is the other unusual aspect in that the US Air Force first funded the project under a wholly different designation, the WS-606A, and when the US Army formulated a "battlefield flying jeep" program, then the other designation was applied. The Avrocar actually started life as a scaled "proof-of-concept" test model for the WS-606A. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 20:21, 21 June 2009 (UTC).

Given the preponderance of the evidence piling up, I am willing to grant you the AV. LOL FWiW Bzuk (talk) 20:24, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

The meeting notes that I have specifically refer to the AV code being used as a type of "special identification" but as it was probably in the hindsight of time, mostly a US team's effort to make the Canajan boys feel part of the group, I concede that the AV code probably wasn't that special. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 20:30, 21 June 2009 (UTC).

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Project Y

Just saying, "project Y" sure looks a lot like Vought_V-173. Not sure about the size, and the canopy looks very different, but its around the same time... 207.159.180.63 (talk) 16:46, 17 October 2010 (UTC)