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Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service in Cloncurry Queensland opened by Doctor John Flynn
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The Fabric bi-plane (victory) which flew the the first Flying doctor mission from Cloncurry QLD 1928
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The pedal radio was invented by Alfred Fraeger in 1929 for people in the outback to call the Flying Doctor Service
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The service went national and because known as Aerial Medical
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In 1942 it became Flying Doctor Service -
The body chart was created by Sister Lucy Garlick in 1951 and it is still used today, it enables patients to describe the region and intensity of the pain or injury
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School of The Air began using the RFDS radio network to link to children in remote areas to teachers
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Renamed the school of Distance Education in the mid 1990s, this service no longer needs the RFDS radios -
In the year 2020 the RFDS had 77 planes
