PROBUS WARRAWEE

Our speaker for January will be Norman King. Norman was a Qantas Boeing 707 Flight Engineer and has a general interest in Qantas and all aspects of aviation.

Norman’s talk is entitled, “AN AMAZING MOMENT DISCOVERING & RESTORING QANTAS’S FIRST JET AIRLINER”.

Norman discusses the discovery, restoration and the flight back to Australia of Qantas’s first jet airliner, a Boeing 707 purchased in 1959, which was found in a derelict state at Southend Airport in Essex in the UK.

Norman contributed to the restoration project at Committee level, spent 3 months in the UK on the spanners and flew back with the aeroplane across the Atlantic, the US and the Pacific with final delivery to Qantas Founders Outback Museum in Longreach, Queensland.