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Dr George Simpson (left), his wife Nesta and John Flynn, c.1950






 

On 15 May 1928 pilot Arthur Affleck, accompanied by Dr Kenyon Welch, made his first " Aerial Medical Service” trip to Julia Creek, 134 km away. They flew in an open cockpit (кабина пилота), single engine biplane, " Victory". In the first year, pilot Arthur Affleck and Dr Kenyon Welch flew 28 129 kilometres to attend 255 patients.

 

The first Flying Doctor pilot, Arthur Affleck, had no navigational aids, no radio and only a compass and inadequate maps, if any. He navigated by landmarks such as fences, rivers, river beds, dirt roads or just wheel tracks and telegraph lines. He also flew in an open cockpit, fully exposed to the weather, behind the doctor's cabin.

 

John Flynn finally retired and died in 1951 in Sydney, and was cremated and his remains placed under a large boulder (камень, валун) from the Devil's Marbles. Unfortunately, the Northern Territory Department of Public Works had taken the rock from a site sacred to its Aboriginal owners. After many years of negotiations the rock was returned to its original location in 1998 and replaced with one acceptable to the Aboriginal people. John Flynn is buried at Mt Gillen near Alice Springs, the very centre of the vast territory to which he brought communication, medical comfort and pastoral care.

 

Flynn received an Order of the British Empire in 1933. He is featured on one side of the current Australian 20 dollar polymer note.

 







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