901:, a two seat monoplane basic trainer with tandem enclosed cockpit, the CA-2 prototypes and CA-6 production Wackett Trainers, although not formally referred to as LJW8, are clearly acknowledged as his design, and has apparent design and structural links to the earlier LJW7 Tugan Gannet. They are his last formal design. Wackett left Tugan to join the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, where he led the local production of the licence built NA-16 as the CAC Wirraway. The second type to emerge from CAC under Wackett's stewardship was the eponymous Wackett Trainer, the first prototype flying for the first time just after the outbreak of World War II. The CAC Wackett trainer was the first aircraft type designed in-house by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation of Australia. The name was derived from its designer Lawrence Wackett. The type was designed to meet RAAF Specification 3/38 for an ab initio training aircraft. It was a tandem seat fixed tailwheel-undercarriage monoplane aircraft with a fuselage of steel tube and fabric construction and wings and tail made of wood. Despite the simplicity of the design, construction of the first of two CA-2 prototypes, begun in October 1938, was not completed until September 1939 (this was partly because CAC was still building its factory during this time period). The first prototype flew for the first time on 19 September 1939 fitted with a Gipsy Major engine. The aircraft proved to be underpowered with this engine so the second prototype was fitted with a Gipsy Six prior to its first flight in early November the same year (the first prototype was subsequently also re-engined with a Gypsy Six). Although in-flight performance was improved, the heavier engine negated any benefits to take-off performance obtained from the increased power, so the decision was made to install a Warner Scarab radial engine driving a Hamilton two-bladed propeller. The two prototypes were fitted with Scarabs in mid-1940. With two CA-2 prototypes and 200 CA-6 production examples, the type was the most numerous of Wackett's designs to be produced, (and his only design to enter mass production), and also the most successful, with 200 serving in the RAAF as elementary and wireless trainers, Following retirement and disposal at the end of the war, with 30 being sold to the Netherlands East Indies ML-KNIL, the first Australian design to serve with a foreign military service, more than 40 went into civil service after WW2 on the Australian VH- civil register and 25 were later modified into the K.S.3 Cropduster and the Yeoman Cropmaster. It is also the only Wackett design to be preserved through extent survivors.
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when the formation came under attack by two much superior German aircraft. Wackett was able to use his aircraft to assist the
Martinsyde in defending their comrades and fighting off the attack. On the night of the 14/15 January 1917, 16 Jewish workers (mostly masons, carpenters and plumbers) who had
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Australian aircraft industry. Wackett and the CAC Board undertook extensive lobbying to reverse the decision but the best that could be achieved was a subcontract to build the Mirage's wings,
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Widgeon II, (RAAF Experimental Section), a biplane amphibian, powered by a 440 hp (330 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine, was the next aircraft to emerge from the Experimental Section workshop. Wackett himself flew the Widgeon II extensively, later saying, "I proved its
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position, but the observer sat in front of the pilot and behind the engine, and between the upper and lower wings. This meant that the machine gun could only be fired in fairly narrow arcs if the
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LJW2 – Wackett Widgeon (I), (RAAF Experimental Section), a wooden hull biplane flying boat powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Puma of 230 hp (170 kW) located below and forward of the upper wing. This aircraft, the first flying boat to be wholly designed and constructed in Australia, was
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fought on 4 July 1918. Captured German documents revealed that they had been experimenting with dropping ammunition from aircraft and No. 3 Squadron was asked to investigate doing the same. Wackett was asked to do the work as his reputation had spread; 'he had a gift for mechanical inventions'
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Wackett was able to acquire the rights for the NA-32 and NA-33 versions of the aircraft, plus the 600-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-S1H1G engine. On completion of the mission Wackett returned to Tugan Aircraft, where the Codock design was developed into the
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should decide what aircraft the RAAF should buy!" and once more set to work to do just that. Wackett together with some members of the RAAF, had the decision for the Starfighter overturned in favour of the
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1464:Meteor, Sabre and Mirage in Australian Service
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1062:web page about Wackett, retrieved 2007-08-16.
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988:Aircraft Pioneer: an Autobiography
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1307:Record of Wilbur Wackett's death
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1630:List of Wackett design papers.
1425:Isaacs, Wing Commander Keith.
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984:J.T. Picken & Sons, 1950.
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211:Mentioned in Despatches
119:Australian Flying Corps
1709:People from Townsville
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