Anbei ein Auszug der Story um den “fliegenden Priester” der im Top End aktiv war.
I remember Vic Peterson – he crashed in Nixon’s paddock across the river – he walked over the drome and paid for an air fare to Darwin by threepenny and sixpenny coins from his collection bag.
Less Cox, 20 March 2004
…, and the Wynn family at Katherine remembered him arriving in his aircraft, assembling his bicycle and riding to visit them on Riverbank Drive west of the town.
Vic hat a habit of either getting lost or crashlanding his aircraft. Some said his planes were held together with “fait and Araldite”, particulary after he began maintaining and servicing his aircraft. He went missing in the remote Kimberley in October 1945 before been located by the RAAF (Royal Australian Airforce) and in March 1950 he crashed his Tiger Moth, VH-BJD (“Before Jesus Departed”) in Nixon’s paddock, before calmly walking to the Katherine Aerodrome and purchasing a one-way air ticket to Darwin.
25/7/2011 These pictures from the beginning of Salvos’ Flying Padre
are worthwhile to show them in a exhibition.
Now this Outback Service is continued by Captain David Shrimpton
of Flying Padre in Darwin NT.
It is my proposal to organize a small exhibition in the Ev.-Lutheran
Church of Fredersdorf/Uckermark, Germany, the birthplace of the
missionary Carl Strehlow, who was from 1894 up to his death in 1922
the leader of Hermannsburg Mission N.T. (now Finke River Mission).
You can find more in the book of his son, Prof. T.G.H. Strehlow,
“Journey to Horseshoe Bend” (N.T.).
Please do not hesitate to contact me; I will be only to glad to send
you more on this idea.
Dr. Horst Bloch
c/o Jung-Stilling Initiative for
Flying Padre Outback Services N.T.
Buchenhain 20
D-57271 Hilchenbach, Germany
Email:
Buchenhain 20