Citations:boomerang
English citations of boomerang
noun: RAF slang
editverb: RAF slang
edit- c. 1945, 427 Squadron – War Diary[5], page 59, log entry for November 19, 1943:
- 19/11/43 Twelve aircraft were detailed for a raid on Leverkusen, and as many became airborne. Two however, boomeranged, "S" due to u/s of rear guns and starboard inner failure, and "U" due to the failure of all electrically controlled instruments, and the cutting out of port inner engine.
- 2007 September 20, Peter Jacobs, quoting Les Bartlett, Bomb Aimer Over Berlin: The Wartime Memoirs of Les Bartlett DFM[6], Pen and Sword, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:
- Out of the nineteen aircraft which took off, two 'boomeranged' [returned to base with various faults]; the inter-com of one was U/S [unserviceable] and in another the bomb aimer 'passed out'.
- 2021 September 29, Jeff Steel, Joe Shuttleworth, Best of Times, Worst of Times: Bomber Command, Two Men, One War[8], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- A non-return at this stage was not a matter of immediate concern, as there was always a chance an aircraft had 'boomeranged' with engine trouble and put down at another station.