Recently Warbirds Online visited Greg Batts workshop in suburban Brisbane Queensland, to get an update on the progress on his CAC Boomerang Warbird restoration projects. Quite a lot has changed in the 12 months since my last visit. Greg’s Boomerang aircraft, CA-12, RAAF serial A46-54 had been trial assembled and has now been dismantled down […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
During the month of December 2013 Warbirds Online highlights an aircraft with great significance to Australia, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) CA-12 Boomerang. Much has been written on the story of this aircraft from its inception as a concept, through to its first flight 16 weeks later and its service life. What has not been […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
In a quiet Brisbane workshop Greg Batts massive undertaking to restore not one but 3 iconic CAC Boomerang fighters to flight has been slowly proceeding for some years and the work is now near to completion with the first of the 3 hoped to be flying within a year. The CAC Boomerang Fighter was nearly […]
Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects
The Australian Warbird movement had its genesis in the 1950s with individuals such as Titus Oates, Sid Marshall, Jack McDonald, Harold Thomas and Col Pay to name a few. These were people of passion, vision and with strong personalities, required to overcome the inevitable bureaucratic and financial hurdles faced by the early pioneers of the […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviator Biographies, Warbird Pilot, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds