Stay updated with breaking news from Vance drummond. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
How The 'Mao Suit' Changed The Face Of China menafn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from menafn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 'Mao Suit': How A Military-Style Uniform Changed The Face Of China And Clothed Australian Prisoners During The Korean War menafn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from menafn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 ....
CAC Wirraway rescued from Lake Corangamite after 70 years australianaviation.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from australianaviation.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.