CAC Boomerang

[Snautzer01]

Bougainville salvage dump

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[buffnut453]

Where's the Boomerang? I can see an F4U Corsair in RNZAF markings.

Great pic, though.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Wait a second and it will come back!

 

[buffnut453]

I marked that as "Funny" because there isn't a "Groan" option!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Yeah...that was pretty bad.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I could not help but laugh at that one!

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Gnomey]

Shame to see

 

[Snautzer01]

*Photo* CAC Boomerang Fighter Plane in Flight - WWII Original Photo | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

DB Design Bureau - Drawings of Australian-designed aircraft

 

[Snautzer01]

https://rosetta.slv.vic.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_func=stream&dps_pid=FL20308261

 

[Wurger]

 

[buffnut453]

Here's one of my all-time favourite air-to-air photos. It shows Flt Lt Alf Clare at the controls of Boomerang A46-126, BF-S, "Sinbad", over Queensland in 1944. Clare was one heck of a fighter pilot, who is credited with 5 victories flying Buffalos with 453 Sqn over Malaya/Singapore. Pre-war he'd been an omnibus driver and was quite old to be a fighter pilot - he was 31 at the time of the Japanese attack on Malaya.

 

[SaparotRob]

Here's one of my all-time favourite air-to-air photos. It shows Flt Lt Alf Clare at the controls of Boomerang A46-126, BF-S, "Sinbad", over Queensland in 1944. Clare was one heck of a fighter pilot, who is credited with 5 victories flying Buffalos with 453 Sqn over Malaya/Singapore. Pre-war he'd been an omnibus driver and was quite old to be a fighter pilot - he was 31 at the time of the Japanese attack on Malaya.

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That's a pretty impressive record, making ace in a Buffalo in that theatre. Did he survive the war?

 

[buffnut453]

That's a pretty impressive record, making ace in a Buffalo in that theatre. Did he survive the war?

Yes he survived the war but, sadly, his eyesight started failing and he died very young in 1965. I have a letter from one of his 453 Sqn colleagues who stated that "Alf was a mighty bloke." I don't think there's much higher praise that one Aussie can bestow on another.

 

[nuuumannn]

I could not help but laugh at that one!

Me too!

 

[Snautzer01]

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[buffnut453]

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That's another great pic of Alf Clare in his Boomerang. It's from the same series of pics as the vertical shot I posted earlier in the thread.