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AUSTRALIAN FIGHTER

SECRET TEST FLIGHT PERFORMANCE PRAISED ’(10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March C. Australia’s new fighter aircraft, CA 15, has made its first test flight from tlie Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation's runway. The trial was kept secret. After .the flight the test pilot, who has flown Hurricanes, Spitfires, Typhoons, Mustangs, Kittyhawks and Boomerangs, said he thought the fighter would show a better performance than any other single-engined plane he had flown. The plane was entirely designed and built in Australia. but is powered with a RollsRoyce Griffin engine.

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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN FIGHTER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN FIGHTER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 2