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In a last-ditch effort to generate some interest in its
new fighter, Can-Car entered the Model 10 in the
January 1940 New York-to-Miami air race.
Unfortunately, shortly after takeoff, a lack of oil
pressure forced the FDB-1 to land in New Jersey,
thus disqualifying it. Two months later its landing
gear collapsed at Saint-Hubert during testing.
Though the Gregor FDB-1 was born into a world In a fit of anger, Gregor is quoted as saying: "They'll
where the monoplane was the choice for modern start this war with monoplanes, but they'll finish it with
air forces, there are several biplane fighters that biplanes." He was wrong. Neither his prediction nor his
came on the scene at the same time as the Gregor, aircraft were to survive the test of time.
yet went into production in considerable quantities.
The Canadian government refused an export license
The difference between the Gregor and aircraft like although Mexican authorities were interested in the
the aircraft and there were no other prospective customers
for a biplane in an age of monoplanes.

Fiat Falco,

Gloster Gladiator,
After several years of sitting forlornly in storage, the
Model 10 FDB-1 was destroyed in a hangar fire at
Montreal's Cartierville Airport, and Michael Gregor
swiftly followed it into obscurity.

Grumman F3F

and the Polikarpov Chaika,
was that these aircraft were developments of older
aircraft that were already in service and had already
proven themselves.
These aircraft were at the end of their development
stages and the Gregor was just beginning its. The
world was not seeing double anymore. All four of
the competing aircraft types mentioned here
proved to be outclassed by modern monoplane Photos from; Canadian Aviation and Space Museum
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