As many readers will know, Australia's Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) designed and built a number of different airframes based upon the North American Aviation NA-16, a trainer which eventually evolved into the legendary T-6 Texan/Harvard. The Wirraway was one of CAC's more successful designs. A number of different Wirraway variants evolved, some of them armed, but the type primarily served in the training role within Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), a function which it performed admirably between 1939 and 1959. While CAC built more than 750 Wirraways at their factory in Fisherman's Bend, near Melbourne, Victoria, the type is pretty rare today, with fewer than two dozen survivors in any recognizable form today, and of these, just a handful are presently capable of flight. This is why the recent news of Rodney Knights' expedition to recover the substantial remains of a Wirraway from Lake Corangamite near Melbourne, Victoria is such welcome news. The aircra
in the back, which we always expected but they did pretty good overall. i don t know what s wrong with me. do you think for private chang it physical or mental? probably a mixture of both but a lot of it probably has to do with the mentality of what happened in boot camp and she just needs to push through that. all right, get to the line. go around. back up. this day has been a bitch and it s these combat instructors who keep these guys on their toes. four days down, 25 to go. tonight they ll bed down in huts and it all starts again in the morning. to my surprise, chang seems ready for more.