Impression of the Boomerang

[DoomedMantis]

The boomerang was produced because the Brits refused to give us the rights and/or machnery necessary to produce Spits or Hurricanes. They wanted to control everything themselves, but wouldnt help out by supplying us with any excess stock they had (and they had plenty up to 5 times the amount of planes as they had pilots. They kept lying to Australia saying anything and everything, but in the end they screwed us. They only started to give us stuff after we turned to the US for aid and they were worried about not getting a piece of the Pacific pie.

Unfortunately the US were also reluctant to give us much either, so we were forced to build what we were able, as in the Boomerang.

We supplied 50,000 airmen and aircrew to fight, and the Brits gave us 2 squadrons of spitfires in reply, past the time when we needed them.

[eMonticello]

Bingo. "... the Boomerang, ... was designed as an interceptor with a high rate of climb and good manoeuvrability. To obtain the best performance, the aircraft was fitted with the most powerful engine in Australia - the 1,200 hp Twin Wasp which was in production for the DAP Bristol Beaufort. " Here's the link to the RAAF museum.

http://www.raafmuseum.com.au/raaf2/html/boom.htm

ORIGINAL: byron13

(Admitting that I know nothing of the real plane . . .), Given that it came out so late, wouldn't it have made more sense to just license Spits and Hurricanes? Or was it built around the only engine that Australia could build or was tooled for?

[stubby331]

ORIGINAL: DoomedMantis

The boomerang was produced because the Brits refused to give us the rights and/or machnery necessary to produce Spits or Hurricanes. They wanted to control everything themselves, but wouldnt help out by supplying us with any excess stock they had (and they had plenty up to 5 times the amount of planes as they had pilots. They kept lying to Australia saying anything and everything, but in the end they screwed us. They only started to give us stuff after we turned to the US for aid and they were worried about not getting a piece of the Pacific pie.

Unfortunately the US were also reluctant to give us much either, so we were forced to build what we were able, as in the Boomerang.

We supplied 50,000 airmen and aircrew to fight, and the Brits gave us 2 squadrons of spitfires in reply, past the time when we needed them.

Not forgetting of course that when those three (1 RAAF, 2 RAF) squadrons came over from UK the Brits advised the USA to deduct that amount of aircraft from our allotted quota of Kittyhawks which were being supplied (Churchhill was still very dark at Australia for not allowing the Australian division enroute to Java to land at Rangoon).
Source: Loosely Quoting from the Book "The Great Betrayal" by David Day.

[DoomedMantis]

Ah yes I forgot about the deduction bit, as for Churchill and what abuse he did to us and our troops ( holding onto them, diverting them getting them killed etc) well thats a book in itself.

Read the Politics of War by the same author (David Day)

[stubby331]

Now the CA15, THAT would be an aircraft I would like to see in the database (or the Woomera for that matter)....

[DoomedMantis]

hey stubby, did you get my pm?

[stubby331]

sure did mate.

[Milman]

I use them for naval bombing at alt. 100 ft . In three days day sunk DD and 2 AG , damage one AP .

[testarossa]

ORIGINAL: DoomedMantis

Ah yes I forgot about the deduction bit, as for Churchill and what abuse he did to us and our troops ( holding onto them, diverting them getting them killed etc) well thats a book in itself.

Read the Politics of War by the same author (David Day)

I think he treated all colonials as dirt. Hong-Kong - Canadaians, Diepp - Canadians, bombing kids in Germany - Canadians.