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Old June 16th, 2008, 08:11 AM
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Australia became involved in the Pacific War in Dec 1941, and the Royal Australian Air Force was ill-prepared to face the superior Japanese fighter aircraft. Taking the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engines, the most powerful engines available to Australians at the time (license built by the Commonw...

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Aah the Boomerang. I've seen one in the flesh and it looks like the simple younger brother of the Brewster Buffalo. This is the only aircraft in history to be designed and built as a fighter...and never shoot down a single enemy aircraft.
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