Mach One

Naomi McQueen reflects on her 18 years as an Air Traffic Controller at Sunshine Coast airport; changes to the airport and it's traffic; and what it takes to be a good ATC.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this second of a two-part feature about the restoration of the QAM Lockheed Neptune, A89-277, host Garry Hills talks with RAAF aircrew who served in Neptunes - former RAAF pilot and airline Captain, and now QAM Guide, Maurice Ritchie, Wing Commander (Ret.) Phil Andrews (AEO) and Wing Commander (Ret.) Dave Charles (Navigator).

Season 1, episode 11 is Part one of this series.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this first of two episodes featuring the ongoing restoration of the Queensland Air Museum's Lockheed Neptune A89-277, your host, Garry Hills, talks with the volunteers working on the restoration project. Next week, in Part 2, you'll hear from four QAM volunteers who served as Air Crew in Neptunes with the R.A.A.F.

Check out the photos and videos in the Mach One Hangar (themachonehangar.wordpress.com)

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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I had been looking forward to this conversation for quite a while. I'm talking with Queensland Air Museum volunteer, author, historian and all-round gentleman, Ian Campbell, who beavers away each week, poring over documents and items in the QAM Don Bennett/Pathfinder Force collection - sorting, cataloguing and preserving this unique and priceless archive.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this third in the series introducing our volunteer Tour Guides, host Garry Hills speaks with Val Bukmanis about his Air Force career of over 3,000 hours in C-47s, Neptunes and Orions, taking part in Search and Rescue missions and Maritime and Anti-submarine Surveillance.

Val is a thorough gentleman with a wealth of experience and a few very good yarns.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this episode, Garry Hills talks to the restoration team volunteers and to a man who flew this very aircraft in service with the Royal Flying Doctor Service between 1956 and 1964.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this episode, former QAM President, Cliff Robinson describes his experience with one of the QAM salvage operations - the acquisition of an Avro Anson from a remote Qld property in the early 1980s.

Cliff describes the process of locating derelict aircraft and their components, acquiring them for the museum, then organising and leading a team for the often-arduous task of salvaging them and restoring them to their former glory.

This is the first of two episodes focusing on salvages, The second - salvages from Singapore - will be in Season 2 later in 2022.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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QAM Guide and former-airline Captain, Don McLeod and his wife, Sue, former Cabin Crew, give host Garry Hills the grand tour of their RANS S7 aeroplane. Don describes the process of choosing, purchasing, building and certifying his own plane. 

22 minutes of listening pleasure.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this episode, meet another of the QAM Guides, Rob Arndt.

As an engineer, Rob brings a lifetime of experience in Civil Aviation to his volunteer role as a Guide at the Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra and an engineer at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in NSW.

Rob's brings an excellent sense of humour, deep knowledge and long experience to his role as a guide.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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In this episode, Garry Hills talks to the restoration team working on the Mk 1 Spitfire Representation - K9787.

Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod

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"Arthur Vyncke - Breaking the siege" is under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) license

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