Aim for the sky: the Royal Canadian Air Force and the development of a Canadian aircraft industry, 1909-1949
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since 1945, the aeronautics industry has been a key sector of the Canadian economy, with a notable world presence in the civilian aircraft market, defence program contracting and advanced technology. This doctoral thesis studies the creation and development of the military-industrial aviation complex that developed across the country between 1909 and 1949, and, in particular, the relationship between Canada's federal, military and industrial policies towards its aviation industry. British decisions in 1915-18, and the institutional links between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force during the interwar period, led to the issuing of British manufacturing contracts in Canada which resulted in an infusion of capital and a transfer of aircraft technology from one of the world's leading aviation industries. This transfer resulted in the establishment of a Canadian aviation industry, with British and, later, American aircraft built under licence. As a result, Canada became the world's fourth largest air power and a major player within the North American defence sphere during the Second World War through its aeronautical production capabilities, an important strategic position it continues to hold today.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".