The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BELL AIRACOBRA FIGHTER, P-39; NO SERIALS VISIBLE BUT THE HORIZONTAL STRIPES ON RUDDER SUGGEST IT WAS AN EARLY SPECIMEN. NOTE CAR-TYPE ENTRY DOOR.
An aircraft recognition film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Analysis Films Ltd using animated models and shots of actual aircraft. Shows identification features of the Bell Air
BREWSTER BUFFALO FIGHTER, AMERICAN STAR MARKING AND ARMY UNDER WING SUGGEST AIRCRAFT OF AN AMERICAN UNIT BUT ON RAAF AERODROME, ANSON IN BACKGROUND. TYPE OF GOGGLES BEING WORN ALSO SUGGEST PILOT WAS A
DOUGLAS A-20 (BOSTON) NO SERIALS VISIBLE; POSSIBLY BEFORE ISSUE TO NO. 22 SQUADRON RAAF (THE ONLY AUSTRALIAN UNIT WHICH FLEW THE TYPE). TYPE WAS A28 - IN RAAF INVENTORY, TOTAL OF 69 TAKEN ON CHARGE.
Port (left) view of two Bell P-400 Airacobra aircraft in flight, possibly over Australia. Note the early Second World War American star on the side of the aircraft on both aircraft and the fitting of
BOOMERANG FIGHTERS, RAAF, NO SERIALS VISIBLE, PROBABLY AT NO. 2 OPERATIONAL TRAINING UNIT, MILDURA, WHERE PILOTS WERE TRAINED ON THIS TYPE OF AIRCRAFT DURING THE PERIOD 1943-1944.
EARLY TYPE WHEEL AND POST STEERING OF BOMB SCOW, RAAF TYPE 010-. FITTED WITH TWIN RUDDERS, THE CRAFT COULD BE TURNED WITHIN ITS OWN LENGTH. NOTE LATER IMPROVED CAR TYPE STEERING SHOWN IN PHOTOGRAPH 13
