Flying Orders

This is Keith giving some instructions to Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston, AK, AFC (Retired) at the opening of the Narromine Aviation Museum.

Sir Angus, a most eminent Australian, is the former head of the Australian Defence Forces and was visiting to officially open the museum.

Keith is a former member of the RAAF, retired farmer and builder of a replica of the 1907 Wright Flyer Model A, the only replica in the world to have actually flown, which is on exhibit in the museum.

More importantly he was a friend of my father and arranged to have him seated next a friend of his bride at their wedding.
Seven months later there was another wedding and ten months after that I arrived :-)

Keith and Jean lived on the farm next door to us and the lady standing beside him is his daughter, Jeanette.
Somewhere else I have blipped a picture of the two of us on our first day at school together.

We were invited to the opening as my father owned a Rolls Royce Merlin engine out of a Mosquito aircraft which he gave to the museum on long term loan.
The extra is of my sister, brother and me next to the engine.