RFDS plane and hangar. Dates from US Army Base on Charleville Airport during World War Two. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
RFDS plane and hangar. Dates from US Army Base on Charleville Airport during World War Two. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Royal Flying Doctor Service Charleville airport hangar. Royal Flying Doctor Service. ( $5 admission required.) This service was the lifeline to life for so many people in the isolated outback of Australia. Along with the school of the air these two services provided so much help and assistance to life in the outback. The service all began with Alfred Traeger and the Reverend John Flynn. Traeger’s parents were SA born and his German grandparents had arrived in SA in 1848. Traeger, born in 1895 attended Balaklava School and then the School of Mines where he studied engineering. In 1923 he started work at Hannan Brothers in Adelaide doing electrical repair work. He was fascinated by radio. He built his own radio and established Traegers Transceivers Pty Ltd. In 1926 he started working for John Flynn on radio transmitters for the Northern Territory. Flynn had already seen the potential of radio transmitters for medical assistance to remote outback stations. He adapted a bicycle pedal system to generate power to operate a basic radio transmitter. The first of these pedal transmitters was used in QLD in 1928 around Cloncurry. Meantime John Flynn had raised funds and he had the support of Hudson Fysh, the founder of Qantas, H McKay a wealthy industrialist, and George Simpson a doctor, to launch his idea of a flying doctor service able to respond to calls of distress from pedal radio transmitters on isolated stations. Qantas supplied the first aircraft for the service. The service was launched in 1928 with a Flying Doctor Service based in Cloncurry. The title “royal” came after the Queen’s visit to Australia in 1954. Within a few years there was also a FDS base in Charters Towers and Charleville from 1943. Dr Allan Vickers returned to Charleville from a FDS base at Port Headland to established the Charleville base in 1943. Charleville serviced and still does, an area bigger than the United Kingdom. In the early 1950s Prime Minister Robert Menzies recognised the RFDS as “the single greatest contribution to the effective settlement of the far distant country” and the service expanded rapidly across the major states. By the 1960s the service was using it own aircraft, pilots and engineers. Today the service owns 61 aircraft operating from 21 RFDS bases across Australia. What an achievement of Rev. Flynn. John Flynn lived from 1880 to 1951. He was a Presbyterian minister. He became head of the Presbyterian Australia Inland Missions service working in the outback across SA, NT and QLD and WA. In 1911 he established a nursing hostel in Oodnadatta. He went on to establish nursing centres at Port Augusta, Oodnadatta, Port Hedland, Broome, Pine Creek near Alice Springs and Cloncurry. Whilst doing this he increased his nursing staff from one nurse to 23 nurses so he had infrastructure in place for the aerial medical service by 1923. He made sure from 1911 that his nursing stations and hospitals were open to Aboriginal people. In the early 1920s he started doing radio work and offering radio medical advice and he employed Alfred Traeger from 1926. In 1925 he first proposed an aerial medical service. His friendship with Sir Hudson Fysh the founder of Qantas helped him achieved his goal. On a personal level Flynn was devoted to his work and did not marry until 1932 at age 51 when he wed his devoted secretary. He was knighted and in 1942 his medical service was renamed the Flying Doctor Service. The Royal part was added in 1954. Flynn died of cancer in Sydney in 1951. His ashes were taken to Alice Springs and 5 years later the John Flynn Memorial Church was opened there. There is a John Flynn Museum and Gallery in Cloncurry where it all started. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-08-18 00:34:23 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/125) |
| 開放F値 | f/11.0 |