RFDS RETIREE

No retirement yet
Back of my head is the best shot.;)
I've got a link to an interview/presentation I was in for school leaver career paths somewhere if anyone was game enough to see my face:p

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Originally Posted by EastFreo

Some of my earliest memories are flying in a Beechcraft Baron as a very young kid. Dad was a doctor in Tom Price and would go out with the RFDS. Sometimes I would go with him (literally sitting on his knee - 1970s were a lot more relaxed obviously).

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Now you bring back memories to me.

There was this guy in RFDS in Broken Hill called Vic Cover. I would ride my pushy out to the aerodrome and annoy Vic with questions and beg him to fly me somewhere.

I would do things like wash engine parts and the aeroplane just to bum a ride anywhere.

Those aeroplanes were DeHavilland Drovers with lycoming engine transplants....3 off.

I could not believe it when they were replaced.....by Beagles.

I think there was something between those and King Airs.....maybe Queen Airs.

Thanks for the memories East Freo.

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Originally Posted by strangy

No retirement yet
Back of my head is the best shot.;)
I've got a link to an interview/presentation I was in for school leaver career paths somewhere if anyone was game enough to see my face:p

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- You think you've got problems with 'Ugly' ?

- There's a reason for the facial fur and sunnies, - and tight cropping !. . . :eek:



But the presentation wasn't too terrifying. :angel:

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Originally Posted by strangy

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Back of my head is the best shot.;). **snip**. :p

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Someone famous used to say that...

Was it Lincoln?

Or maybe JFK?

...no... Too soon? :twisted:

Well , I hope when they display it they do as good a job as the Queen Air on display in the Stockmans Hall of Fame at Longreach.

It looks fantastic just hanging there.

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Originally Posted by digger

Someone famous used to say that... Was it Lincoln? Or maybe JFK? ...no... Too soon? :twisted:

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Someone famous....or someone's famous last words...🤔

Like the (suddenly) late General Sedgwick, (Union army) the one responsible for the allegation that Confederate snipers couldn't hit an elephant...

The last words of John Sedgwick

Alas, the Confederate forces had seen the value in a revolutionary, heavy, and teddibly, Teddibly... expensive British rifle...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitworth_rifle


A direct descendant of Sedgwick alleges the actual reference was to the 'broadside of a barn'. Whatever, the sniper excelled either quote, hitting him in the head.

Then, to keep the aviation theme in play, there is the dispute about which allied soldier, Aussie machine gunner or British Tommy... shot the Red Baron as his aeroplane was being shot at, by Major Brown... Or not.

Hi strangy, I found this retired RFDS relic in amongst my used rags bag - my wife must have relegated it, not much wrong with it except it's seriously worn out!

Attachment 136348

Frame the T-shirt!

(My daughter used to be a nurse in Derby.)

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Originally Posted by strangy

With more than 17000 flying hours with RFDS Central Operations, Alice Springs based Pilatus PC12 VH-FMP has been decommissioned and will soon begin a new life as a museum exhibit.
VH-FMP was delivered in 1995 and has spent most of its time in service flying emergency retrievals, inter hospital transfers and more recently NT clinic charter flights throughout Central Australia.
VH- FMP simply known to crews as Papa, has flown 16898 sectors/ legs over 6361 flights.

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The Flying Doctor saved my Mothers life, out Ilfracombe way, about 1953, her 90th birthday is March 8. Thank you RFDS.