Boomerangs. Or is it Boomeri ?Finished !

[Captain Canada]

Almost done with this pair, so figured I'd toss up a few pics. And somebody was asking.....

Had to glue down a pair of styrene strips to lift the Malcolm hood, as well as cut down part of the cockpit to get my lost and found glass to fit.....



The pair of them upside down, showing their tail hook arrangement. mounted at the trailing edge of the flaps and controlled by the same actuator. The hooks themselves were fashioned from wing leading edge fences from a hawk ( maybe ?)

[Logan Hartke]

Carrier Boomerangs?!?!  That is SO right.  It's really quite practical, too.



Cheers,

Logan

[The Rat]

Works a treat! 

[Old Wombat]

Navy Boomerangs!

AWESOME!!!  

As Logan said, SO right!

And they're so small you could probably get 3 into the space occupied by any 2 other naval aircraft (apart from the F4F, perhaps).



Guy

[NARSES2]

Oh I like those 

[Dizzyfugu]

Navy Boomerangs!

AWESOME!!!  
As Logan said, SO right!

Second that! 

[Captain Canada]

Thanks guys. And thanks for the pic Logan ! That is awesome ! I wonder if that's over Lake St. Clair ?

[royabulgaf]

Since I don't see any AA guns along the side, and the deck seems to be closer to the water than most carriers, I suspect it is a photo of one of the USN training carriers, the Badger or Wolverine, that operated in Lake Michigan.

[Captain Canada]

Ya...Lake Michigan ! I was thinking of St. Clair as they fished some a/c out of it a few years back, but they were flying from Selfridge ANG base and not from a carrier. I'll have to google those names as the number is visible on the deck.

[Captain Canada]

So far I have come up with Sable and Wolverine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sable_(IX-81)

Deck numbers aren't matching up....so was there a third ? And check out that drone ! Never heard of it !

[Captain Canada]

Having lost the 'bits' sprues I quickly eyed up and cut out a pair of oleo covers.....



And this is my question : I had prepared this bomb ( from a Kittyhawk ) but wonder if it would be overkill for the small Boomerang ? Also, since these guys will be protected by F.22s, the 'green' one wouldn't need to be a fighter anymore....can I put rocket rails on it with the wings folded ? Might add a little more 'omph' to the pretty basic folded look. And distract you from the obvious shortcuts I took in hacking and folding them....

[Old Wombat]

Sorry, F.22's? When are these operational?

During WW2 Boomerangs were mostly used for CAS, rather than as fighters, because, with only an un-supercharged 1,200 hp Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engine, they were quite under-powered.

The version you have is the CA12, armed with 2 x 20mm Hispano-Suiza cannon (locally produced from a reverse-engineered souvenir) & 4 x .303 Browning machine-guns (the CA13 was armed with 4 x 20mm cannon), bombs could be carried but only if the drop tank wasn't - which was probably related to the lack of power.

Later supercharged & up-engined (1,700 hp Wright Cyclone R-2600) variants (CA14/14A) weren't put into production as Spitfires & Mustangs were coming into RAAF service in the Asia/Pacific Theatre.

I would suggest you stick with either the bomb or the rockets but not both.

Re: rockets on the folded wings. I can't see why not, that depends more on the fold strength that wing strength & you've only got 2 rockets per wing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang



Guy

[Old Wombat]

This would be a SNJ landing on USS Monterey in 1953 (I cheated, I looked at the url. ).



Guy

PS: I've figured out you're talking about the Supermarine Spitfire F.22, not the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, but... why Spitfires & not Seafires?

[comrade harps]

A carrier Boomerang. Never thought of that. 

Looking good.

[Captain Canada]

Thanks for the help Guy !

Originally they were going to be a land based and sea based pair. Then I mixed up the paint schemes on the 2.....