Here is the final installment of the History Festival preesentations by Mike Milln about the Vickers Vimy and crew.
Author: David Hales
The Epic Flight Centenary – Part 3 -The flight down from Darwin
The latest installment of Mike Milln’s History Festival presentations – Part 3, The flight down from Darwin.
Epic Flight Centenary – Part 2 The Race by Mike Milln
The second in a four part History Festival series by Mike Milln about the Epic Race and the Vickers Vimy.
Epic Flight Centenary – Part 1 Pre-Flight History by Mike Milln
This is the first part of a 4 part History Festival series about the Epic Flight of the Vickers Vimy from England to Australia presented by Mike Milln.
Pre-Flight History
Part 2 – The Race will be available next week. Stay tuned!
RIP PAUL DAW
We were devastated to lose Paul Daw, our long-serving member and collection manager, in the Rossair crash near Renmark on 30 May. We offer our sincere condolences to his wife Anne, daughters Emma and Rachel, Son Simon and brother Nigel; and to the loved ones of Stephen Guerin and Martin Scott, who also died in the crash.
Paul will leave a huge gap in our organisation and in our hearts. Vale Paul.
PROGRESS ON CARIBOU A4-225 RE-ASSEMBLY!
When we last posted we had moved the Caribou into our new display hangar and installed the horizontal tail surfaces and the engines.
We now have the props and cowlings installed, and on 3 June 2017 we installed the vertical tail fin. Next is the rudder!
Video interview of our President, Pieter van Dyk on 9th April
Pieter was filmed by Aviation Now at our Open Cockpits and Family Fun Day last month. To view the video click here
We’ve put the props on the Caribou since then – the port wing and vertical tail surfaces come next!
8-14 May 2017 is National Volunteer Week!
Volunteer Week is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contributions of our Nation’s Volunteers…
Did you know SAAM has NO paid staff? We are entirely dependent on the hard work, commitment and enthusiasm of our volunteers, and we are very proud of them.
Here’s a good example – a hard-working group in our library, busy on a major re-organisation of the collection that’s underway. Ian Jones is on the left, who is a photographer and works on the video section; then Rod Kopp, who has the thankless job of Membership Officer on the Committee; Jean Kopp, who as well as library work and countless chores around the museum also produces the newsletter; Nigel Daw, our Librarian who leads the library staff; and Vern Kendall, who can be found every week helping in the library. There are many others who help out too.
There are many, many more volunteers busy on a huge range of activities that make SAAM such a good place to visit – some of whom we will be featuring and thanking on our Facebook page this week.
Children’s University Program!
We are an accredited learning destination under the program, so bring the kids in with their passports over the school holidays. They’ll have fun with our questionnaires AND learn a lot AND earn passport credits – AND remember we are open every day over Easter!
