The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BOOMERANG TAKES OFF. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN MADE FIGHTER-INTERCEPTOR PLANE, THE BOOMERANG, PARTICIPATED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE ALLIED LANDINGS NEAR LAE. HERE THE FIRST BOOMERANG TAKES OFF ON ITS TEST FLIGHT FROM THE FACTORY WHERE IT WAS MADE. THE PLANE WAS DESIGNED BY WING COMMANDER L.J. WACKETT.
DESIGNED BOOMERANG AIRCRAFT. WING COMMANDER L.J. WACKETT, WHO DESIGNED AUSTRALIA'S NEW FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR, WHICH PARTICIPATED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE ALLIED LANDINGS NEAR LAE HAS A WORD WITH THE TEST PIL
PHOTO NO.7350. SILHOUETTE SHOT AT THE COMMONWEALTH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION FACTORY WHICH HAS PRODUCED PLANES BUILT AND DESIGNED IN AUSTRALIA SINCE SHORTLY BEFORE THE WAR. THE WIRRAWAY BUILT AT THE FACTOR
A BOOMERANG AIRCRAFT SERIAL NO. A 46-2 DESIGNED AND BUILT IN AUSTRALIA BY THE COMMONWEALTH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION. THE DESIGNER OF THE AIRCRAFT IS WING COMMANDER L.J. WACKETT, RAAF.
Newsreel item on a test flight of the Commonwealth Boomerang fighter aircraft. Pilot boards aircraft; takes off; several shots of aircraft manoeuvring during test flight.
Curtis was shown around the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory, Melbourne, by Wing Commander Lawrence Wackett (1896-1982) who ' ...took me under his wing and eagle like "flew" me around the sho
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-04-29. The test pilot, Flight Lieutenant J. E. Schofield, in the cockpit of CAC Mustang aircraft A68-1 ready to take the aircraft for its first flight. This aircraft is the first
