G’ Day all 😀 , Warning doe’s contain a Aussie KILLER!!
Been a tad crook 🙁 , but on the up and up a bit now, I hope! :rolleyes:
Just on my second run through ” Killer Caldwell ” Australia’s Greatest Fighter Pilot By Jeffery Watson ISBN 0 7336 1929 0 HODDER 05, WHAT a book!!! 😉 It’s a bloody ripper!!
I must say Clive is/was my kind Aussie!!! :dev2:
BUT he thought the Boomerang was rubbish, So do I, but it is still nice to have a few real one’s still around I reckon! 😎
I just love Suzy-Q!! 🙂
Must be off again, Hope all the forum bud’s far and wide are doing A.O.k 😉
Knackered now, completely Bugggered!!!!, so crashing, ” Gut Nacht ” all far and WIDE
By: oscar duck - 23rd November 2005 at 02:25
Boomerang – an interesting oddity!
By: setter - 23rd November 2005 at 01:02
Phil
I wouldn’t describe the Boomerang as rubbish by any stretch of the imagination – it was not used as a fighter much at all and as far as I know didn’t much go up against enemy aircraft often if ever so who knows how it would have gone – probably badly but we will never really know – when it was concieved there was the threat that Australia wouldn’t be getting the numbers of Spits and P40s as well as Beaufighters that eventually arrived.
The Boomerang did great work as a ground attack and FAC aircraft and was very well respected in this role – it was very well armed and a real threat to the enemy in a valuable way. Watching Matt in the air I would think that it could give a reasonable account of itself against it’s enemy peers in any case – a lot of the time it was more about the capability of the pilot than the aircraft eg Buffalos in Europe Vs Luftwaffe
Kindest regards
John P
PS have to love the blue note/whistle they make in the air
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November 22, 2005 at 2:42 pm