RAAF Pilot, Air Vice-Marshal (ret) David Rogers and Navigator, Air Commodore (ret) Peter Growder talk about the day they were forced to eject from their stricken F-111.

USAF F-111 Crew Module Escape System film (1968)

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Centenarian Merv Draffin (RAAF Pilot) chats with RAAF AVM (ret) David Dunlop and Mach One host Garry Hills about flying the Vickers Wellington and the C47 Dakota with No. 99 Squadron RAF during World War Two.

This is an excerpt from Merv's Oral History interview.

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In this second of two episodes featuring the GAF Canberra, RAAF Air Commodore (ret.,) and QAM Volunteer Peter Growder and Warrant Officer (ret.,) Steel Rudd talk about their experience with Australia's Canberra bombers, focussing on their service in the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969. In the previous episode they began their stories.

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In this first of two episodes featuring the GAF Canberra, RAAF Air Commodore (ret.,) and QAM Volunteer Peter Growder and Warrant Officer (ret.,) Steel Rudd talk about their experience with Australia's Canberra bombers, focussing on their service in the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969. In the next episode they'll both be back to continue their stories.

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In this episode, we welcome Sunshine Coast Deputy Mayor Rick Baberowski and Sunshine Coast Councillor Terry Landsberg to the studio for a 'thank you' chat, then we hear from 20 year-old restorations volunteer and RAAF hopeful, Emily Hocking along with QAM Restoration and Conservation Manager, Rick Wilkins.

Music:

Kevin MacLeod - "Stay the Course"

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The Qld Air Museum recently hosted the 2022 Qld Scouts Air Activities Weekend. Hear from the Scouts and their leaders themselves about the fun, educational and inspirational activities they enjoyed!

Music:

Kevin MacLeod - "Stay the Course"

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QAM volunteer Ted Gray describes the arduous, but 'exciting' process of a team of volunteers dismantling the huge aircraft after its final flight; trucking it along a busy highway and reassembling it for display.

Music:

Kevin MacLeod - "Stay the Course"

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In this episode, you'll hear cockpit recordings of the SAR mission conducted in January 1997 by Orion A9-760 in response to distress beacons from two round-the-world yachtsmen who foundered in high seas in the Southern Ocean as well as the reflections of two QAM volunteers whose RAAF careers qualify them to be caretakers of the QAM Orion - one, Chris Buley, an Aircraft Technician, the other, Peter Scovell, a Flight Engineer.

Music:

Kevin MacLeod - "Stay the Course"

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Former Air Force and Commercial pilot Maurice Ritchie, now a QAM Guide, describes his recollections of operating in the RAAF AP-3C Orion Maritime Surveillance and Anti-submarine warfare aircraft. This is the first of a three-part special focus on the Orions and on QAM's Orion - A9-760.

Music:

Kevin MacLeod - "Stay the Course"

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