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CONTENTS
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ISSUE NUMBER 51 - JULY/SEPTEMBER 2016
FEATURES
REGULARS
5
WILSON’S COMMENTARY
The editor on a lost opportunity
and a nice bit of news.
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CAC – AUSTRALIA’S
PLANEMAKER
80 years ago, privately-owned
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation was
established because its founders saw the
need for a local aircraft industry in time of
war. They were right.
6
AEROGRAMMES
Bits and pieces of news and
information from around the
aviation world.
36
SABRE MISSILE TESTING
Testing the Sidewinder and Firestreak
missiles on RAAF Sabres in the 1950s.
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AEROGRAMMES EXTRA
The secrets of a mysterious
Beech 1900 which recently
and briefly flew in RAAF
markings revealed.
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CESSNA SKYLANE
A classic light aircraft still going
strong after six decades.
16
WARBIRDS & VINTAGE
News from the world of
old aeroplanes.
46
SALUTE TO THE ‘CHIPPIE’
De Havilland Canada’s famous trainer
marks its 70th birthday.
20
MOVEMENTS
Some of the aircraft spotted
around the traps over the last
few months.
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F-111B – THE ONE
THAT GOT AWAY
Why the naval version of
General Dynamics’ superb strike
bomber failed to make the mark.
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AIR SHOWS
Tyabb and Wanaka warbirds
plus Wings Over Illawarra.
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AERO REVIEWS
Some interesting new books
to consider adding to your
collection.
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SPOTLIGHT ON
SYDNEY AIRPORT
One day’s international operations at
Australia’s busiest airport.
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AERO ALBUM
Some photographs from the
CAC archive to supplement our
cover story on the Australian
manufacturer.
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COVER
One of the
Commonwealth
Aircraft Corporation’s
best-known products –
the Australian
designed and built
Boomerang fighter.
GAVIN CONROY
captures the Temora
Aviation Museum’s
example over a golden
field of canola.
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CORNERED AND DANGEROUS
Army’s Tiger combat helicopter has had its
problems but is now fully operational.
71
MINI PROFILES
A slow-selling turboprop, a total failure
and an unlikely modest success.
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AERO MODELS
Flying Billboards – aeroplanes
with advertising on them.
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SKYWARRIORS:
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COMMENT
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WILSON’S COMMENTARY
ISSUE 51 JULY/SEPTEMBER 2016
EDITOR
Stewart Wilson
Email:
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PO Box 181, Bungendore NSW 2621
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LOST OPPORTUNITY FOUND?
HOW TIME FLIES. It’s half a century since one of Australian aviation’s great missed
opportunities first flew – the Victa Aircruiser in 1966. The four seat light aircraft was flown
shortly after Victa Aviation shut down production of the Airtourer two-seater at its Bankstown
Airport facility after completing 167 of them. Both were designed by Dr Henry Millicer.
A victim of the ‘dumping’ policies adopted by US manufacturers – notably Cessna with the
150 – Victa pulled the pin while its application for tariff protection against the practice dragged
on for months. After concerted lobbying, the vested interests of the ‘big boys’ inevitably won
the day and the application was rejected. It was a sorry saga.
These dumping policies were very effective. The Airtourer’s main rival in the local two-seat
training market was the Cessna 150. Worldwide deliveries of the ‘Tiny Tinny’ reached 1,637 in
1965 and nearly doubled to more than 3,000 in 1966 when the practice – under which dealers
were required to take a minimum number of aircraft – came into full effect. At the same time,
the basic price of a 150 in Australia was dropped from $9,500 to $8,750.
Piper and Beechcraft also reduced the prices of their equivalent Cherokee and Musketeer
range and both Cessna and Piper introduced a three months customer evaluation period as an
‘incentive for potential buyers’.
The result? By the end of the following financial year, the number of two-seat trainers
imported into Australia had quadrupled. Ironically, the Airtourer programme had just reached
breakeven point when the line was shut down and an order for no fewer than 72 had been
placed by UK distributor Glos-Air.
Victa continued work on the prototype Aircruiser through this. There was no intention of
putting it into production, but if it was flying it would be a more saleable asset. The Aircruiser’s
official first flight (as VH-MVR) was on 18 July 1966, but test pilot Vic Walton had quietly
flown it the previous day, away from prying eyes.
Flight tests revealed exceptional performance. The Aircruiser was hailed by the aviation
press and the RAAF was impressed, showing keen interest in it as the basis for a new
elementary trainer. It would be, but not in the way envisaged.
The Aircruiser was awarded Type Approval in March 1967 but by then Victa had already
closed its Aviation Division. The Airtourer’s production and manufacturing rights were sold
to New Zealand’s Aero Engine Services Ltd (AESL) which built a further 80 up to 1974.
The Aircruiser was also eventually sold to AESL which developed it into the CT-4 Airtrainer
military trainer. In what is still viewed with considerable bitterness by many in Australia, the
CT-4 was then sold to the RAAF proudly made in New Zealand!
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Fifty years on, the Aircruiser’s story is not over yet. Cowra NSW-based Brumby Aircraft has
established a joint venture company with China’s AVIC which will see its LSAs manufactured
there for the world market.
Brumby has also acquired the rights to the Aircruiser and the intention is to build it in
revised and updated form in China for the potentially huge local market. That’s in the future,
but firm plans are in place. Perhaps the saga will have a happy ending after all.
PIP WOULD BE PROUD
IT WAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED that Flt Lt Edwin Borrman has qualified as the RAAF’s
third F-35A Lightning II pilot following the completion of his training at Luke AFB in Arizona.
Edwin is the son of top aerobatics pilot, true gentleman and our friend, the late Pip Borrman,
who tragically died in a flying accident in February 2009. Pip got the flying bug from his father
– who had a Tiger Moth – and Edwin’s came from Pip, a natural progression in the order of
things. Pip would have been so proud of Edwin’s achievement. It’s such a shame he isn’t here
to see it.
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