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