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GyroOz
5th Feb 2011, 00:38
Sounds like someone had an interesting experience just now.
MFS: *CFSRES INC058 05/02/11 11:58,RESPOND Aircraft Light,PARAFIELD AIRPORT,KINGS RD,PARAFIELD MAP 71 A 11 TG182,AIRCRAFT INCOMING WITH ENGINE FIRE,1 P.O.B.,SAL329 SAL321
MFS Salisbury SAL329
MFS: AIRCRAFT HAS LANDED, PILOT OUT. ENGINE STILL ON FIRE.
MFS Salisbury SAL329
PyroTek
5th Feb 2011, 02:40
Good to hear that the pilot walked away uninjured (relatively?) at least :ok:
Any word on type or who it belongs to?
aussiefan
5th Feb 2011, 04:53
Hopefully VH-TXY! :E
Hopefully VH-TXY!
Flew txy just the other week, for a 172 it's not bad. Maybe it's just you....
:p
Jungmeister
5th Feb 2011, 09:53
I just caught the tailend of CH 9's report on the 6 O'Clock news. It was the CAC Boomerang. I think they said smoke in the cockpit before takeoff, pilot shutdown and evacuated unharmed. The aircraft looked OK. I don't know how the TV footage was obtained.
J
Track5milefinal
5th Feb 2011, 10:49
TXY is that back online with DF's fleet?:eek:
I'm glad everyone else thinks its a piece of sh!t too!!:D:D
Peter Fanelli
5th Feb 2011, 11:10
I'm glad everyone else thinks its a piece of sh!t too!!
Well, it's a 172 innit?
Sunfish
5th Feb 2011, 22:44
Smoke in the cockpit just after take off is an extremely disconcerting feeling.
Ask me how I know this.......
Peter Fanelli
5th Feb 2011, 22:50
You obviously never did any training with TK.
Shortly after it departed, saw the Boomering coming back in trailing smoke. Initially thought perhaps it was practicing for airshow display, but obviously not.
Desert Flower
6th Feb 2011, 01:25
You obviously never did any training with TK.
Lol, not only in the cockpit - office too!
DF.
Schmacko
7th Feb 2011, 04:11
Best authority says #12 cylinder screwed as in holed piston vented 60 litres of oil overboard in 12 minutes I would suggest the master rod would have seen better days gets uglier the more you think about it.
The non flying Boomerang will now join a non flying P51 and T6 all in the same hangar...........whatever you do dont go into that hangar
3 greens beeep
7th Feb 2011, 04:35
TXY is that back online with DF's fleet?http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/eek.gif
I'm glad everyone else thinks its a piece of sh!t too!!:D:D
Yes it is. Unfortunately. Wish I'd read this thread before taking it up last week :ugh:
TBM-Legend
7th Feb 2011, 05:18
Not to mention the metal through the system....
Good job he got her on the ground quickly....:ok:
Jabawocky
7th Feb 2011, 06:15
Which Boomerang was it? There were two flying I thought.
Super Cecil
7th Feb 2011, 08:49
Which Boomerang was it? There were two flying I thought.
The one in South Australia :8
Jabawocky
7th Feb 2011, 11:04
hahahah Cecil :D
J:ugh:
You got me :sad:
Super Cecil
7th Feb 2011, 21:23
Both Boomerangs that were flying Matt Denning has had a fair bit to do with, isn't he working on another one or two to get flying?
Pilotette
8th Feb 2011, 06:11
This one?
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr172/shety002/P5010215.jpg
kingRB
8th Feb 2011, 08:05
yup thats the one. XBL
http://users.adam.com.au/rb4door/AA/aviation/july09/26072009025%20%28Custom%29.jpg
ForkTailedDrKiller
8th Feb 2011, 08:50
I have always thought that the Boomerang was a bit of a joke, as far as fighters go - but they do make a cool noise!
Dr :8
Super Cecil
8th Feb 2011, 20:51
I have always thought that the Boomerang was a bit of a joke, as far as fighters go - but they do make a cool noise!
Dr :8
So your Mustangs a better machine Doc? How about your Spitfire, how does that handle compared to the Boomerang? How do you find a Merlin compared to the 1830? How much time do you have in in fighters Doc?
The Boomerang was a stop gap machine, designed and made in short order because Australia couldn't get enough fighters from the yanks or poms at that time.
I'm sure most others would be impressed by at least a 250kt cruise speed and 1200hp in a little machine like that. I've always admired them.
Jamair
8th Feb 2011, 21:22
FDK, you might want to check out the latest 'Flight Path', which has a write-up on the CAC Turbo Boomerang, re-engined with a B17 turbo-supercharged powerplant.
The Turbo Boomerang was very favourably compared to the P51 & Spitfire by the test pilot who flew all of them at the time; was considered to be actually better in some areas. The Government of the day elected not to go to production, prefering to concentrate on licence building P51s, Beauforts & Beaufighters.
Super Cecil
9th Feb 2011, 00:13
I haven't read that flightpath, I thought the Boomerang with the added turbo still had the Pratt in it with a hair drier tacked on the back somewhere. Didn't Liberators have an 1830 with a Turbo?
CoodaShooda
9th Feb 2011, 00:20
I'm sure most others would be impressed by at least a 250kt cruise speed and 1200hp in a little machine like that.
Not to mention that it had (for its time) a phenomenal rate of climb and, according to Roy Goon, could out turn the Zero at lower speeds below 15,000 ft.
Wasn't too bad in the ground attack role, either - but a bugger when it came to ground handling.