Well what about a CAC Boomerang:) I mean after we get all those Japanese planes we desperatly nead:) Because so far we only have one early war Japanese ftr to fight off all those early war alled plane's.
C.A.C. Boomerang
TYPE: Single seat fighter / army cooperation aircraft
ENGINE: One Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S3C4 Twin Wasp piston engine, of 1,200 hp.
DIMENSIONS:
SPAN: 36 ft 0 in / 10.97 m.
LENGTH: 25 ft 6 in / 7.77 m.
HEIGHT: 10 ft 6 in / 3.20 m.
PERFORMANCE:
MAX. SPEED; 265 kts / 491 kph
CRUISING SPEED: 165 kts / 305 kph
INITIAL CLIMB: 2,150 ft / 655 m. per min.
NORMAL RANGE: 808 nm / 1,496 km.
MAX. RANGE (with drop tank): 1,390 NM / 2,575 km
SERVICE CEILING: 34,000 ft / 10,363 m.
ARMAMENT: 2x 30 mm cannon and 4x .303 in. machine guns in wings; provision for 4x 20 lb / 9 kg smoke bombs under centre section.
WEIGHTS:
EMPTY WEIGHT: 5,373 lb / 2,437 kg
NORMAL LOADED: 7,699 lb / 3,492 kg
MAX. OVERLOAD: 8,249 lb / 3,742 kg
CREW: 1
RAAF SERVICE: 1942-1946
with 2 OTU, and 4, 5, 83, 84 and 85 Squadrons.
With the sudden and apparently unstoppable spread of Japan from 1941, Australia found itself with no modern fighters with which to defend itself. The CAC (Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation) Boomerang was a panic measure, progressing from design to first flight in a mere two months, and using as many components of the Wirraway (itself a Texan/Harvard derivative) as possible.
The first CA-12 Boomerang flew in May 1942, with 2 Operational Training Unit taking the first deliveries the following October. By then the desperate need for the aircraft had passed with the arrival of P-40 Kittyhawks and Spitfires.
The Boomerang was flown by two squadrons in Australia (83 and 85) and 4, 5 and 84 Sqns. in operations against the Japanese. It was an inadequate fighter, but proved itself in the army co-operation role in New Guinea and Bougainville.
A total of 250 were built, as CA-12, CA-13, CA-19 and CA-14/A versions, the last being a turbocharged variant which appeared in 1943.
Three surviving Boomerangs were listed on the Australian civil aircraft register in mid-2001.
