Tag: CAC

• CAC Wirraway – Part Three – An Evergreen Cockpit

  

  When the world gives you bare cockpits you just go out and build your own. The High planes Wirraway is a kit on a budget and there doesn’t seem to be enough in the kitty for much interior. I count a cockpit floor, two seats, two control sticks, and a couple of instrument panels. As…

  Dick Stein

  March 12, 2026

  Scale Models, Model Airplane, 1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, design, Self Reliance, scratch-building

  cockpit, CAC, framing

• CAC Wirraway – Part One – The Challenge

  

  Apparently that is what the word translates to from one of the aboriginal languages. In modern day terms it was one of the licence-built derivatives from a North American design – the root of which gave us the Yale, Harvard, Texan, and NA 16. And probably a Soviet copy somewhere, if they ran true to…

  Dick Stein

  March 9, 2026

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Collecting, internet, Model Airplane, Model building club, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Utility Models

  Australian model, CAC

• CAC Winjeel – Part One – The Native Name

  

  Air forces all over the world have code name families for their aircraft. Thus you get fighter plane names that project power like the USAAF Thunderbolt and Lightning or training names like the RCAF Yale and Harvard. In Australia there is a tendency to apply aboriginal native names to aircraft Like Boomerang and Wirraway. The…

  Dick Stein

  December 26, 2025

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Box Art, design, History, Model Airplane, Uncategorized

  Austrslian design, CAC, trainer