The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series around
1960?

Wonkypedia talks about a series in the '80s but this is far too late for
the one I'm thinking of.

Cheers

Dave R


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David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

Try Wollumboola base, I think you'll have more luck.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series around
1960?

Wonkypedia talks about a series in the '80s but this is far too late for
the one I'm thinking of.

Cheers

Dave R

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:52:17 +0000, David wrote:

The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

I remember that!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052467/

Not a lot there, but it's a start. Although I'm not entirely sure that
the phrase comes from there...I had a feeling it might be in Tony
Hancock's "The Radio Ham" almost as an aside. Of course, they might have
cut and pasted.

David wrote:

The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series around
1960?

You could have simply searched for Flying Doctor and TV, to find
the top result:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052467/

Chris
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Plant amazing Acers.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:12:28 +0100, Chris J Dixon wrote:

David wrote:

The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series around
1960?

You could have simply searched for Flying Doctor and TV, to find the top
result:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052467/

Chris

Did find that (or at least an IMDB page) but couldn't find the phrase.

Yes - checked the page and it doesn't mention the catch phrase (at least
according to Chrome search).



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On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:51:40 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:54:43 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks
in my mind.

Try Wollumboola base, I think you'll have more luck.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series
around 1960?

Wonkypedia talks about a series in the '80s but this is far too late
for the one I'm thinking of.

Cheers

Dave R


This old fart remembers it. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...e_of_Australia
and scroll down to 'Cultural References', where you'll find this:

"In the 1950s the RFDS featured in a BBC Radio series The Flying Doctor,
which became well known for the catchphrase "Flying Doctor to
Wollumboola Base". A television show of the same title based on this
radio series and starring Richard Denning ran on the British ITV network
for one season (1959–60)"


Thanks - I was looking at the entries for the TV series and this doesn't
contain the catch phrase.

As usual, experience rules :-)

Cheers

Dave R


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In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:52:17 +0000, David wrote:

The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

I remember that!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052467/

Not a lot there, but it's a start. Although I'm not entirely sure that
the phrase comes from there...I had a feeling it might be in Tony
Hancock's "The Radio Ham" almost as an aside. Of course, they might have
cut and pasted.

Your memory is correct -- it features in Tony Hancock's 'The Radio Ham'.
TH is tuning around and hears it over the airways, followed by a
conversation along the lines of "Just wrap 'im up and don't move 'im".
I'd quote in full but my copy is on vinyl in the loft.

Oh, hang on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3F...=RD6Bz2110fOyA

4 mins 49s.

P
--
P

Yes I know about it, indeed a Charlie Drake single called my Boomerang wont'
come back had the line at the end, Oops I hit the flying doctor.

That must have been 1960s?
Of course you are not allowed to play it these days due to political
correctness.
Brian

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"David" wrote in message
...
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series around
1960?

Wonkypedia talks about a series in the '80s but this is far too late for
the one I'm thinking of.

Cheers

Dave R


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Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three engined
plane in it?
Of course this still goes on, they have a fleet of helicopters as well, but
some are now separate companies like Care Flight etc.
Brian

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"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:54:43 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

Try Wollumboola base, I think you'll have more luck.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series around
1960?

Wonkypedia talks about a series in the '80s but this is far too late for
the one I'm thinking of.

Cheers

Dave R


This old fart remembers it. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...e_of_Australia
and scroll down to 'Cultural References', where you'll find this:

"In the 1950s the RFDS featured in a BBC Radio series The Flying
Doctor, which became well known for the catchphrase "Flying Doctor to
Wollumboola Base". A television show of the same title based on this
radio series and starring Richard Denning ran on the British ITV
network for one season (1959-60)"

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On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three engined
plane in it?...

With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird. It makes a
lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines, especially if
half the stories I heard from a former flying doctor pilot were true.


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In article ,
Nightjar cpb@ insert my surname here.me.uk wrote:
On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three engined
plane in it?...

With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird. It makes a
lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines, especially if
half the stories I heard from a former flying doctor pilot were true.

Indeed; a cousin of mine, a nurse, was killed when with a similar service
in Kenya.

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"Brian-Gaff" wrote in message
...
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three engined
plane in it?

Only one of them was
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...ralia#Aircraft

Of course this still goes on,

Yep.

they have a fleet of helicopters as well,

Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...ralia#Aircraft

but some are now separate companies like Care Flight etc.

All of them are with the choppers.

"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:54:43 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks
in
my mind.

Try Wollumboola base, I think you'll have more luck.

Google cannot find this or anything similar.
Despite that I am sure it exists.

So can any other old fart remember back to the original TV series
around
1960?

Wonkypedia talks about a series in the '80s but this is far too late
for
the one I'm thinking of.

Cheers

Dave R


This old fart remembers it. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...e_of_Australia
and scroll down to 'Cultural References', where you'll find this:

"In the 1950s the RFDS featured in a BBC Radio series The Flying
Doctor, which became well known for the catchphrase "Flying Doctor to
Wollumboola Base". A television show of the same title based on this
radio series and starring Richard Denning ran on the British ITV
network for one season (1959-60)"

--

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"Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote in message
...
On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three engined
plane in it?...

With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird.

They were quite unusual at the time tho and that was only
a very small subset of the planes they used at the time.
There were only ever 4 registered in the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...ralia#Aircraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover

It makes a lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines,

At that time they weren't spare engines.

especially if half the stories I heard from a former flying doctor pilot
were true.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...


They were quite unusual at the time tho and that was only
a very small subset of the planes they used at the time.
There were only ever 4 registered in the country.

Thirteen


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover


According to the link which you helpfully provided, anyway.

quote

" The type entered service with the Australian Department of Civil
Aviation (DCA, now the Civil Aviation Safety Authority) in 1949,
the DCA operating the first two aircraft. Qantas and the RFDS took
delivery of their first aircraft in 1950, eventually receiving five
and six new aircraft respectively. Qantas placed the Drover into
service on its routes in what was then known as the Territory of
Papua and New Guinea."

/quote

DCA 2, Quantas 5, RFDS 6

HTH


michael adams

....

"michael adams" wrote in message
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...


They were quite unusual at the time tho and that was only
a very small subset of the planes they used at the time.
There were only ever 4 registered in the country.

Thirteen

Yeah, my brain fart, 4 CURRENTLY registered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover


According to the link which you helpfully provided, anyway.

quote

" The type entered service with the Australian Department of Civil
Aviation (DCA, now the Civil Aviation Safety Authority) in 1949,
the DCA operating the first two aircraft. Qantas and the RFDS took
delivery of their first aircraft in 1950, eventually receiving five
and six new aircraft respectively. Qantas placed the Drover into
service on its routes in what was then known as the Territory of
Papua and New Guinea."

/quote

DCA 2, Quantas 5, RFDS 6

HTH

In message , David
writes
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:51:40 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

"In the 1950s the RFDS featured in a BBC Radio series The Flying Doctor,
which became well known for the catchphrase "Flying Doctor to
Wollumboola Base". A television show of the same title based on this
radio series and starring Richard Denning ran on the British ITV network
for one season (1959€“60)"

Thanks - I was looking at the entries for the TV series and this doesn't
contain the catch phrase.

That seems slightly odd. I clearly remember both the TV series and the
catch phrase. The years quoted would be about right, too. I'm quite
sure I did not listen to the radio show.

It is the sort of catch phrase we, as children, would have quoted in the
primary school playground. Perhaps I remember it from there.

Ivanhoe-O, Ivanhoe-O!

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
--
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David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

To now drag this thread off course, it seems 50s Brits had an obsession
with how Oz placenames should sound:

Flying Doctors: Wollumboola base

Journey into Space: Wongawolla launching ground

Bill Kerr's character in Hancock's Half Hour was from Wogga Wogga

:-)

--
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Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

On 15/07/2015 21:19, Rod Speed wrote:


"Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote in message
...
On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three
engined
plane in it?...

With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird.

They were quite unusual at the time tho and that was only
a very small subset of the planes they used at the time.
There were only ever 4 registered in the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...ralia#Aircraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover

It makes a lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines,

At that time they weren't spare engines....

Most light aircraft need all their engines to take off. It does depend
upon the aircraft as to how many you actually need once airborne. From
pilot forums, it seems that the Drover carried one spare, although, if
an engine were going to fail, you would prefer it to be the centre
engine, as it was not an easy aircraft to fly asymmetric.


--
Colin Bignell

"Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote in message
...
On 15/07/2015 21:19, Rod Speed wrote:


"Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote in message
...
On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three
engined
plane in it?...

With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird.

They were quite unusual at the time tho and that was only
a very small subset of the planes they used at the time.
There were only ever 4 registered in the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...ralia#Aircraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover

It makes a lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines,

At that time they weren't spare engines....

Most light aircraft need all their engines to take off.

Particularly with the short runways the RFDS used.

It does depend upon the aircraft as to how many you actually need once
airborne.

That isn't the problem with the RFDS.

From pilot forums, it seems that the Drover carried one spare,

Don’t believe that with the RFDS given the wiki
comment about the lack of power in hot weather.

although, if an engine were going to fail, you would prefer it to be the
centre engine, as it was not an easy aircraft to fly asymmetric.

Statistically that's unlikely.

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:05:07 +0100, News
wrote:

In message , David
writes
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:51:40 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

"In the 1950s the RFDS featured in a BBC Radio series The Flying Doctor,
which became well known for the catchphrase "Flying Doctor to
Wollumboola Base". A television show of the same title based on this
radio series and starring Richard Denning ran on the British ITV network
for one season (1959–60)"

Thanks - I was looking at the entries for the TV series and this doesn't
contain the catch phrase.

That seems slightly odd. I clearly remember both the TV series and the
catch phrase. The years quoted would be about right, too. I'm quite
sure I did not listen to the radio show.

It is the sort of catch phrase we, as children, would have quoted in the
primary school playground. Perhaps I remember it from there.

Ivanhoe-O, Ivanhoe-O!

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen

Parody of The Flying Doctor he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMs...youtu.be&t=724

By the audience reaction it must have been a contemporary show.



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%Profound_observation%

On 16/07/2015 10:36, Rod Speed wrote:


"Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote in message
...
....
Most light aircraft need all their engines to take off.

Particularly with the short runways the RFDS used.

One pilot, who flew the Drover on commercial flights from Perth,
recounts trying to see whether it would take off with just the centre
engine running. That was, however, with the Lycoming engines fitted. He
didn't say whether it was successful.

....
From pilot forums, it seems that the Drover carried one spare,

Don’t believe that with the RFDS given the wiki
comment about the lack of power in hot weather.

The aircraft was an exclusively Australian development, so all users
would have much the same experiences. When you are up there, if an
engine fails, what is important is whether you can climb or simply have
longer to choose where to make an emergency landing. The consensus seems
to be that, with the later engines and feathering props, it could climb,
but with fixed props you would need to be looking for a landing spot.

although, if an engine were going to fail, you would prefer it to be
the centre engine, as it was not an easy aircraft to fly asymmetric.

Statistically that's unlikely.

About a one in three chance, probably.

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Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote

Most light aircraft need all their engines to take off.

Particularly with the short runways the RFDS used.

And the stinking hot weather they were often used in.

One pilot, who flew the Drover on commercial flights from Perth, recounts
trying to see whether it would take off with just the centre engine
running. That was, however, with the Lycoming engines fitted.

So isn't relevant to what the RFDS used unitially.

He didn't say whether it was successful.

Irrelevant to what the config the RFDS used
initially could do in stinking hot weather.

From pilot forums, it seems that the Drover carried one spare,

Don’t believe that with the RFDS given the wiki
comment about the lack of power in hot weather.

The aircraft was an exclusively Australian development,

Yes.

so all users would have much the same experiences.

Nope, not with the very short runways that the RFDS
used so often and the stinking hot weather that so
much of the use of the very short runways involved.

When you are up there, if an engine fails, what is important is whether
you can climb or simply have longer to choose where to make an emergency
landing.

And when the engine fails during a takeoff on a very short runway
in stinking hot weather, its MUCH more complicated than that.

The consensus seems to be that, with the later engines and feathering
props,

Those were much later than the bulk of the use by the RFDS.

it could climb, but with fixed props you would need to be looking for a
landing spot.

So it didn’t in fact have a spare engine at all, as I said.

although, if an engine were going to fail, you would prefer it to be
the centre engine, as it was not an easy aircraft to fly asymmetric.

Statistically that's unlikely.

About a one in three chance, probably.

What I said in different words.

In message , Graham.
writes

Parody of The Flying Doctor he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMs...youtu.be&t=724

By the audience reaction it must have been a contemporary show.

Excellent! Yes, I must find half an hour to watch the whole show again.

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On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:46:29 +0100, News wrote:

In message , Graham.
writes

Parody of The Flying Doctor he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMs...youtu.be&t=724

By the audience reaction it must have been a contemporary show.

Excellent! Yes, I must find half an hour to watch the whole show again.

With youtube videos, it's not you that finds the "half hour", it's the
"half hour"[1] that finds you!

[1] or "Full Hour" or even longer. :-(

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In message , Johnny B Good
writes
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:46:29 +0100, News wrote:

Excellent! Yes, I must find half an hour to watch the whole show again.

With youtube videos, it's not you that finds the "half hour", it's the
"half hour"[1] that finds you!

grin Yes, I have already watched The Radio Ham, and will doubtless
watch more.
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:01:57 +0100, Scott M wrote:

David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

To now drag this thread off course, it seems 50s Brits had an obsession
with how Oz placenames should sound:

Flying Doctors: Wollumboola base

Journey into Space: Wongawolla launching ground

Bill Kerr's character in Hancock's Half Hour was from Wogga Wogga

:-)

The tracing station at Woomera was very important to NASA, including
Project Apollo
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera,_South_Australia

Origin of the name[edit]
The name Woomera was suggested by Group Captain Alfred George Pither
of the RAAF and subsequently chosen by the Board of the Long Range
Weapons Establishment in April 1947.[5] The new Village was
established on Commonwealth land procured for the purpose, and named
after the Aboriginal spear throwing implement the woomera which
extends the range a spear can be thrown. During the 1960s, over 7,000
people lived and worked at Woomera and at Koolymilka campsite near
RangeHead, approximately 42 kilometres (26 mi) west of Woomera village
within the Woomera Prohibited Area.

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On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:04:24 +0100, News wrote:

In message , Johnny B Good
writes
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:46:29 +0100, News wrote:

Excellent! Yes, I must find half an hour to watch the whole show
again.

With youtube videos, it's not you that finds the "half hour", it's the
"half hour"[1] that finds you!

grin Yes, I have already watched The Radio Ham, and will doubtless
watch more.

What's worse, just half a day later, I was sucked into the youtube trap
yet again (PIFs re the polystyrene ceiling tile thread). Luckily, the
next youtube movie was about the top 50 scariest PIFs-UK which proved so
cringeworthy, I was able to close the browser before too many "minutes of
my life that I'll never get back" were lost. :-)

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"Graham." wrote in message
...
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:01:57 +0100, Scott M wrote:

David wrote:
The phrase:
"Flying Doctor to Wollombula Base" (or near phonetic offering) sticks in
my mind.

To now drag this thread off course, it seems 50s Brits had an obsession
with how Oz placenames should sound:

Flying Doctors: Wollumboola base

Journey into Space: Wongawolla launching ground

Bill Kerr's character in Hancock's Half Hour was from Wogga Wogga

:-)

The tracing station

It's a tracking station.

at Woomera was very important to NASA, including Project Apollo
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera,_South_Australia

Nothing like as important as Orroral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrora...acking_Station

Origin of the name[edit]
The name Woomera was suggested by Group Captain Alfred George Pither
of the RAAF and subsequently chosen by the Board of the Long Range
Weapons Establishment in April 1947.[5] The new Village was
established on Commonwealth land procured for the purpose, and named
after the Aboriginal spear throwing implement the woomera which
extends the range a spear can be thrown. During the 1960s, over 7,000
people lived and worked at Woomera and at Koolymilka campsite near
RangeHead, approximately 42 kilometres (26 mi) west of Woomera village
within the Woomera Prohibited Area.