CAC CA-15

CAC CA-15

• A use: Fighter
• A manufacturer: Commonwealth aircraft
• Maiden flight: 1946March 4
• The number of the production: One plane
• Military retirement: 1950
• The operational situation: Only as for the trial manufacture

Indication

CAC CA-15 (known as CAC kangaroo unofficially) is a fighter of the propeller drive that Australian Commonwealth air Craft (CAC) developed during World War II. Because development was prolonged, the plan was not completed by war end, and the plan was canceled at the stage when a test flight was carried out because the appearance of the jet approached close.

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A design and development

I received CAC called a rapid completion design and the mass production of the small fighter boomerang for Australian air forces (RAAF) and success of chief design engineer Fred David (Fred David), and CAC completely started the development work of the interceptor / bombing protection machine of the company design in 1943.

CA-15 wanted to resemble North American P-51 Mustang in the appearance top, and the design of CAC was not made from an American plane directly, and performance target value and the body dimensions were big, and [¹] was different [¹]. For example, David was impressed with an evaluation of Foche-Wulf Fw190 made 鹵獲 [²] and thought to be equipped with an air-cooling star type engine (see below) not series liquid-cooled engine used for the fighter such as Mustang. The development progress speed of CA-15 was really held in check by an advice of president Laurence ワケット of CAC because CAC devoted to the license production of Mustang than the development of the expensive original design machine in those days. It became the end game of the development, and, in CA-15, P-51 was believed when I would show ability to substitute [³].

The designs of CAC planned that I used a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 star type engine with the turbocharger of output 2,300 hp (1,715kW) at first, but were fixed at being equipped with Rolls-Royce Ltd. griffon Mk 61 (2,035 hp/1,517 kW) in the thing that became unavailable because the development of this engine delayed. The engine for the prototype was rented by Rolls-Royce Ltd. Corporation [³]. As for this engine, it was thought that I put on the third-speed supercharger with the mass production type.

History of the use

 

CA-15 (I photograph it from the tailpiece gun tower of abLorin Khan) which flies by the management of J, A L Archer captain over Melbourne

The progress speed of the development was held in check more by end of the war, and the maiden flight of the trial manufacture first issue machine was March 4, 1946 [³]. Serial number "A62-1001" of RAAF was given, and the prototype was delivered to the air force for a test. According to the Darren click (Darren Crick) of the history of aviation student, I recorded measurement horizontal 448mph in speed (721km/h) in high 26,400 ft (8,046m) [³] and reported it when the J A L Archer (J. A. L. Archer) captain reached the speed of 502.2mph (803km/h) in high 4,000 ft (1,200m) of 緩降下中 over Melbourne on May 25, 1948.

However, it is clear that a jet has much bigger ability at this point in time, and there was not the thing that further CA-15 is made. The prototype was subjected to the disposal in 1950, and the engine was returned to Rolls-Royce Ltd. Corporation [³].

Operational

  Australia

• Australian air force

Essential points

Commonwealth CA-15: The 'Kangaroo' Fighter^[4]

• A crew: One person
• Full length: 11.04m (36 ft 2½in)
• Overall width: 10.97m (36 ft 0 in)
• Overall height: 4.32m (14 ft 2 in)
• A wing area: 23.50 m² (253 sq ft)
• Emptiness weight: 3,427 kg (7,540 lb)
• Gross weight: 4,309 kg (9,500 lb)
• Maximum takeoff weight: 5,597 kg (12,340 lb)
• An engine: At 1* Rolls-Royce Ltd. griffon V-twelve engine, 2,035 hp (1,517kW) an altitude of 2,134m (7,000 ft)
• Maximum velocity: 721km/h (448mph, 390 knots)　 At an altitude of 8,050m (26,400 ft)
• Cruising altitude: 11,887m (39,000 ft)
• A flying range: Only as for 1,850km (1,150 mi, 1,000 nmi) inside fuel

• Armament:
  • A machine gun: 6*0.50 in. (12.7mm) a Browning automatic pistol M2 heavy machine gun (for each 250)
  • A rocket bomb: 10 × Rocket bomb
  • A bomb: 2*450 kg (1,000 lb)

Allied item

• Curtis XP-62
• Grumman F8F base-up cat
• ホーカーシーフューリー
• 紫電改
• Five sets of fighters
• Lavochkin La-7
• Martin Baker MB 5
• Four sets of fighters
• Republic XP-72
• スーパーマリンスパイトフル

• List of fighters

Source

Footnote

1. ^ ^{a b} Air Enthusiast October 1972, p. 179.
2. ^ Ross 1995, p. 321.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Crick 2003.
4. ^ Donald 1996, p. 121.

References

• Crick, Darren. "RAAF A62 CAC CA-15" adf-serials.com, 2003.
• Donald, David. "Commonwealth CA-15: The 'Kangaroo' Fighter". Wings of Fame, Volume 4, 1996, pp. 118–121. London: Aerospace Publishing. ISBN 1-874023-71-9. ISSN 1361-2034.
• Francillon, RenéJ. The Royal Australian Air Force & Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Pacific. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers Inc., 1970. ISBN 0-8168-0308-0.
• Green, William, ed. "Antipodean Finale". Air Enthusiast, October 1972, Vol. 3. No 4, pp. 178–180.
• Ross, A.T. Armed and Ready: The Industrial Development and Defence of Australia 1900-1945. Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia: Turton & Armstrong, 1995. ISBN 0-908031-63-7.
• Wilson, Stewart. Wirraway, Boomerang & CA-15 in Australian Service. Fyshwick ACT, Australia: Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd., 1991. ISBN 0-958797-88-9.

Outside link

• RAAF Museum, "A62 CAC CA 15 "
• Felix Noble, "CAC CA-15"

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