The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 PILOT IN THE COCKPIT, MR KEN FREWIN, FORMERLY A COMMERCIAL PILOT.
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
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.
WACKETT TRAINER A3-200. LAST OF THE BATCH OF 200 BUILT. PILOT, MR J.O. CARTER, CIVILIAN PRODUCTION TEST PILOT. OVER CENTRAL MELBOURNE (VIC.), 1942-04-22; FROM WIRRAWAY A20-584, FLOWN BY MR. K.M. FREWI
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
Mareeba, Qld. 1944-03-14. Informal portrait of 373 Wing Commander A. E. Cook of St Kilda, Vic, Commanding Officer of No. 5 (Tactical Reconnaissance) Squadron RAAF in the cockpit of a CAC Boomerang fig
Portrait of Pilot Officer (PO) Athol Fraser of Nedlands, WA, pilot with 78 Fighter Wing RAAF, standing in the cockpit of his aircraft. PO Fraser was formerly a member of 77 Squadron RAAF in Korea. T
