CA-13 Boomerang for Spit1/2 slot. By Geg
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Used Charles's orignal skin & 3dz for this skin (his readme is below!)
A Commonwealth Aircraft CA-13 Boomerang of 5th Squadron Royal Australian Air Force - Bougainville, New Guinea 1943 .
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S!, Greg 'geg' Thomas
www.geaw.tk gegmk2@tpg.com.au



CAC Boomerang for the Spitfire I Slot in European Air War

This CAC Boomerang  replaces the Spitfire I in EAW, and is intended for use with ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Control Panel. The Boomerang takes the place of the Spitfire I, using ECA Control Panel v3.5 or later.

To install, just unzip the *.TPC and *.3DZ files in this zip file and copy them into your EAW directory (the one with EAW.EXE in it). To un-install, simply remove those files from your EAW directory. 

You will have a new aircraft 3D shape, with a new skin. The Boomerang includes a transparent shadow file, and textured wing tyres and wing roots.

EAW editing work of this sort would not be possible without Alessandro's essential utilities, the Converter and 3DZ Studio, and the help of many others in the EAW community. The Boomerang 3D shape is by me, using Captain Kurt's Hawk 75 (which started life as the PAW P40) as a base. The skin is also mostly by me, with some textures by Captain Kurt and Rob Der Fuchs. The operational history below is from PipsPriller. There are a few rendering problems (panels "visible" through panels they should be "behind"), and a few skin warping problems I couldn't fix for one reason or another, but nothing major this time.

History of the Boomerang
The CAC (Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation) Boomerang was conceived as "panic fighter" in early 1942, when Australia was under dire threat of Japanese invasion, and fighter aircraft were in short supply. Produced entirely in Australia, the Boomerang first flew in May 1942, only 16 weeks after design commenced. By the time it entered service in early 1943, however, sufficient quantities of the much-superior Spitfire and P40 were available, and the Boomerang was relegated to a ground-support role. Manoeuvrable, sturdy and well-armed, the Boomerang was operated by five RAAF squadrons from 1943-45, and gave sterling service in the ground-support role. 

The aircraft modelled here is a No.5 Squadron RAAF machine, based in Bougainville in 1944. No.5 Sqn operated on Bougainville Island in the Solomons chain from November 1944 to the end of hostilities in August 1945. No.4 Squadron was the only other Boomerang equipped squadron based outside of Australia and it operated in New Guinea from 1943 onwards, also at Cape Gloucestor and finally at Morotai Island from March 1945.

No.84 Squadron saw brief service from April 1943 when they were based at Horn Island just off the tip of the Cape York Peninsula, flying patrols over the Merauke area of New Guinea. 84 Squadron relinquished their Boomerangs to change over to Kittyhawks in September 1943. No's 83 and 85 Squadrons were permanently based in Australia as "Home Defence".

I hope you enjoy the Boomerang. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.


Charles' EAW website
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/CharlesEAW

June 2002
