I was put onto this site by Chris Cowx the other day. Well worth a visit if you are interested in Boomerangs!
The ultimate resource for a boomerang.
Shame there isn’t a top-notch, modern kit of the Boomerang. Are you listening Tamiya? Thanks for link, great site.
Excellent site, thanks
Btw back in the mid to late eighties there was a Boomerang owned and operated by an NFL player somewhere in the San Francisco area. Remember it because there was an article in one of the pilots magazines and it showed up for sale a little later in Trade-A-Plane. Anybody know what happened to it?
Great site about a little known aircraft.
Be nice to see a decent 1/72 kit of it.
Karl
Got some good news on that KJ200. Seems Special Hobby are bringing out a 1/72 Boomerang sometime this year [:D]
Wow! What a great walk around. Very through and great picture quality. Thanks for pointing this site out. Now if the same thing were available for the CA-15.[8D]
Ever the optimist hey woody??? [(-D][(-D][(-D]
Yup! I think the CA-15 was one of the greatest prop fighter designs of all time. A good kit of it would be most welcome.
Awesome! Thanks for the news and the link.
Don’t forget this site:
http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/
It’s got a nice walkaround of another Boomerang here:
http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/boomer.html
Regards,
Lufbery,
Thanks for the extra links! [bow]
The world needs more 1/48 scale Boomerangs.
Those links are all pretty neat. I do hope that someone will think to come out with a new issue Boomerang kit. I built the Airfix kit years ago, and would love to see one with better detail.
Keyworth,
As I pointed out a little earlier, Special Hobby are supposed to be bringing out a 1/72 one sometime soon
Just when I have posted a totally unrelated question in your Corsair topic I stumbled into this. Sorry I was not able to resist on seeing your picture sig.
BTW, Great Sites!
G’day Folk’s
There were 3 variations of the CAC Boomerang, the CA-12 and CA-13, looked similar in apearence, with one major exception the CA-13 had a flamedamper [hedgehog style] exhaust, the CA-14A had a higher squared ruder and was Turbocharged, this version only went to flight testing.
Their are 3 aircraft but only 2 flying examples in this Country, the aircraft link as mentioned at the top is of Susie Q, this is a true CA-13 Boomerang aircraft, the other aircraft flying in formation with it, was a restoration by the late Guido Secolli and is a composit fuselage and a modified T-6 wing. If I may add this little bit on the end about Matt Denning’s aircraft, he was approached by Airfix for the decal option on their reissued Boomerang kit in 72 scale.
I have several photo’s of the CA-12 Boomerang that was built as part of the RAAF contract we have been working on. I’ll work out a way that these photo’s can be displayed in this forum, or placed on a seperate site link.
A small Company like mine has looked at a Multi Media 48 scale project of this aircraft subject, to fill the viod in the market.
Regards
Rob.
Lobbie
There are actually more Boomerangs than that in Australia, plus one in America under restoration as part of the Kermit Weeks collection (CA-13 A46-165). The ones in Aus that I know of are Matt Dennings CA-13 “Suzi Q”,which is a reconstruction based largely upon the few remains of A46-122, A46-30, a CA-12 in the museum collection at Point Cook, the Zuccoli collections CA-19, and another half restored example at Hendra which unfortunately I don’t have any details of other than it belongs to Greg Batts. I seem to recall there may be one or two other projects out there too.
As for wings, four sets of new build wings were produced as part of Matt Dennings project. One set went onto “Suzi Q”, another set went for the Kermit Weeks example in the US, another set went to Greg Batts, but the first set were used to replace the modified T6 wings on the Zuccoli collection aircraft.
There were 105 CA-12’s (A46-1-105), 95 CA-13’s (A46-106-200), and 49 CA-19’s (A46-201-249), plus the sole CA-14 (later CA-14A) prototype (A46-1001) and boy was that UGLY!!!
I know this is a little late, but if anyone is interested, i saw around 5 Airfix 1/72 CA-13 Booomerangs at a hobbyshop the other day… The tag said they were going for about 300 pesos… roughly $5.35… If anyone is interested, just let me know and we’ll work something out. [:D]
Wow…! Fantastic site. The walk-around itself is worth the visit! Thanks for sharing!