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Mach One

Garry Hills

64 episodes

7 months ago

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Episodes (20/64)

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F-111 ejection - Ohakea, NZ

This is a 12 minute excerpt of a conversation with Mark Kelly, retired RAAF F-111 pilot, describing the experience he and his navigator, Al Curr had being forced to eject from their General Dynamics F-111C (A8-137) during take off at Ohakea, New Zealand on 25 August, 1978.

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7 months ago

12 minutes 32 seconds

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In this Mach One Afterburn, you'll hear a snippet of my conversation from April 2022 with Air Traffic Controller Naomi MacQueen, recorded airside at Sunshine Coast Airport YBSU.

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1 year ago

6 minutes 3 seconds

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Ep.58: Relentless Skies - the Most Efficient Airman

QAM Curator of the Don Bennett Archive, Ian Campbell and Garry Hills discuss Don Bennett's pivotal role in establishing the Atlantic Ferry (later RAF Ferry Command) during World War 2 as a glimpse into the life of Bennett the Australian airman and leader.

'Relentless Skies: the Most Efficient Airman' is the first of a 2 volume series on Bennett - the first biography of Bennett in 30 years, the first comprehensive biography and the first by an Australian.

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1 year ago

50 minutes 43 seconds

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An excerpt from episode 15 (May 2022) describing the beginnings of the Queensland Air Museum from when the idea was conceived in the early 1970's through to the relocation to Caloundra in 1986.

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1 year ago

5 minutes 22 seconds

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Ep.57: Jindivik - 'The Hunted One'

QAM volunteer Assistant Conservation and Restoration Manager and Past President describes his experiences as an RAAF instrument fitter working on the WRE unmanned target jet aircraft, the GAF Jindivik.

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1 year ago

31 minutes 53 seconds

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In this Mach One Afterburn, retired RAAF Wing Commander Phil Andrews describes an incident while on exercise over the Pacific involving an RAAF Lockheed Neptune and a Japanese submarine. You can hear the full episode - Mach One Episode 12: Lockheed Neptune Part 2 from April 2022.

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1 year ago

4 minutes 9 seconds

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Ep. 56: Buried Treasure

Mt. Gambier Aviation Museum Chair, Chris Holden introduces us to the new venture and talks about the buried treasure at Mt. Gambier aerodrome, the home of No.2 Air Observers School, RAAF Mount Gambier (2AOS), officially formed on 6 February 1941 which provided training for over 4000 Air Observers, Navigators and Wireless Operators, many of whom served with RAF Bomber Command.

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1 year ago

29 minutes 28 seconds

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Ep. 55: 'Free from the Bonds of the Earth' - the Australian Air League

The Australian Air League (AAL) was formed 90 years ago in 1934. What is the Air League doing today?

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1 year ago

38 minutes 3 seconds

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Ep. 54: Barry 'Baz' Collins

From Air Force navigator and pilot to commercial captain and now glider pilot and instructor, Baz is now a volunteer QAM tour guide SimGuide in the QAM B737-800 cockpit simulator.

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1 year ago

36 minutes 37 seconds

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Ep. 53: "Spinning inverted - we are ejecting"

In this very special episode, we hear the story, in his own words, of RAF fighter reconnaissance pilot and instructor, W. G. Netherton and his trainee pilot Paul Fisher, who were forced to elect from their out-of-control Folland Gnat jet trainer. In the studio with me is QAM volunteer guide and retired RAF fighter pilot, John Lloyd, providing expert context and Kit Netherton's daughters who introduce us to their father and recall the impact of the accident on their family.

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1 year ago

35 minutes 1 second

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Ep. 52: Matt Denning's Boomerangs pt.2.

Matt Denning continues his workshop hangar tour and describes his Boomerang projects and what the lovingly-restored Boomerang is like to fly.

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1 year ago

31 minutes 21 seconds

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Ep. 51: Matt Denning's Boomerangs pt.1.

Matt talks about the CAC Boomerang fighter aircraft that he has restored to the skies

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1 year ago

36 minutes 33 seconds

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Ep. 50: Flying Under the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Frank Gyzemyter introduces us to his father, John, who was on the team that assembled the QAM DC-3 in 1937! John also accompanied our DC-3 in a stunt formation flight under the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1942.

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1 year ago

24 minutes 44 seconds

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Ep. 49: Solo Around Australia

In 2023, at the age of 17, Chloe Familton set out from Cessnock, NSW in an attempt to be the youngest female pilot to fly solo around Australia. It didn't all go according to plan. Listen here.

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1 year ago

41 minutes 27 seconds

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Host Garry Hills talks with retired Qantas 747 captain and former RAAF pilot Mark Kelly about his lifelong flying career, including the day on 24 August 1979 when he and Navigator Al Curr were forced to eject from their F-111C A8-137 (No. 1 sqn) at RNZAF Ohakea, New Zealand.

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2 years ago

34 minutes 3 seconds

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Ep.47: Sink the Tirpitz! 1942

Host Garry Hills talks with QAM volunteer and author Ian Campbell about Australian aviator AVM Don Bennett's role in one of the early RAF Bomber Command raids on the German battleship Tirpitz.

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2 years ago

47 minutes 8 seconds

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Ep.46: Australian 'Dambuster' - Thomas 'Tammy' Simpson

On this week's 80th Anniversary of the Dambuster raid, 'Operation Chastise', host Garry Hills talks with Helen Pitt (nee Simpson), daughter of RAAF Flying Officer Tammy Simpson, DFC DFM, who flew with RAF Bomber Command as a Tail Gunner on Australian pilot, Air Marshal Mick Martin's P-Popsie.

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2 years ago

26 minutes 16 seconds

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Ep.45: The Empire Flying Boats Pt. 2.

Host Garry Hills talks with Paul Sheehan who has just completed the first definitive history of the Short Empire Flying Boats of the 1930's and '40's. In this second of two episodes, Paul details the story of the 6 Qantas Empire Flying Boats and what became of them.

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2 years ago

30 minutes 1 second

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Ep.44: The Empire Flying Boats Pt. 1

Host Garry Hills talks with Paul Sheehan who has just completed the first definitive history of the Short Empire Flying Boats of the 1930's and '40's. In this first of two episodes, Paul describes the design and performance of the Empire Boats, laying the groundwork for the next episode describing the story of the 6 Qantas Empire Flying Boats.

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2 years ago

35 minutes 39 seconds

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Ep.43: RFDS Simulator

Host Garry Hills chats with two RFDS workers about their RFDS King Air B200 simulator and the work of RFDS at the Women in Aviation Open Day April 15th 2023.

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2 years ago

19 minutes 6 seconds