The Royal Flying Doctor Service

1. The Royal Flying Doctor Service

2. A tv serial?? • Maybe you know the Australian tv-serial The Flying Doctors about the people and the doctors in Coopers Crossing. • This serial has made the real Royal Flying doctors famous all over the world

3. John Flynn • The real Royal Flying Doctor Service was founded by John Flynn • John Flynn was a presbyterian minister • He moved to the outback in 1911

4. Problems Life in the outback was dangerous, hard and lonely People needed: • contact with other people • education • medical service

5. Contact and education • Flynn found pen-friends in the cities for the lonely people in the outback • Flynn wrote a book called The Bushman’s Companion – with information and advice for people in the outback • He collected books and newspapers in the cities for the outback people

6. Patrolling Padres and nurses Flynn sent out: Patrolling padres • ministers, who visited isolated places on horseback or camels. Nurses • He also set up more than 10 nursing centres in the bush

7. Clifford Peel • A young medical student and pilot in the army gave John Flyn the idea of using aircraft

8. Alfred Traeger • Alfred Traeger invented a radio driven by a pedal generator so people could communicate over long distances and call a doctor

9. Jimmy Darcy • To raise money, John Flynn told the story of Jimme Darcy – a young stockman who died a terrible death because he couldn’t get at doctor.

10. H.V. McKay • The factory owner H.V. McKay, who invented the Sunshine Harvester left Flynn a big sum of money in his will

11. 1928 • The first flight was in 1928

12. 1934 • In 1934 the Flying Doctor Service became an independent organisation seperate from the Presbyterian Church

13. Television serial • A television serial about the Royal Flying Doctors was made in 1984

14. Television serial • The service became famous all over the world because of a new and longer serial about the doctors and the people in a small outback town – Coopers Crossing