Author Topic: C.a.c (Read 403 times)

LJbomber · « **on:** September 22, 2003, 05:20:57 AM »

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

I thought some of you may be able to help me find out the performance of this warbird with other or its era the origianls where made in 1942 served in aus till 46. Also some of you may find it interesting like the gun lay-out. Maybe its just because im from Australia though

http://www.wrcs.org.au/articles/62.htm <=A nice artice on one of australias best ww2 aces Clive ' Killer ' Caldwell

udet · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2003, 12:18:56 PM »

so? it wasn't competitive, even early-war Zeros could kick its ass.

NOD2000 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2003, 02:55:56 PM »

so competitiveness makes a diffrence...?

so your saying that the russians flying the I-16's shouldn't be included cause they wern't competetive....what about the swordfish...its not competitive but it send the Bismark on the way to its doom. Cmon even P-36's were not competetive or brewster buffalo's for that matter....they got there A*es wooped in the phillipines......along with the few that were in china.

competitiveness shouldn't make a differance i belive that the Commonweath Boomerang should be added i think it would be a great plane to fight with....

oh wait....let me guess you think that the P-47M, P-61 black widow, or mabey the superfortress should be added instead...........

LJbomber · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2003, 06:28:33 AM »

I agree with Nod and even if it did suck which it didnt i would still fly it Killer Caldwell knocked down 109's and zero's in it during his 28.5 kills. 6 of which where zeros vs his Boomerang

udet · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2003, 02:15:22 PM »

I wouldn't mind having the Finnish version of the Buffalo.

Puudeli · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2003, 02:21:27 PM »

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Originally posted by udet
I wouldn't mind having the Finnish version of the Buffalo.

Me neither