Queensland Air Museum the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), which provides medical support to isolated communities. The Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service, which would later become the RFDS, was established by Reverend John Flynn on 15 May 1928 in Cloncurry, Queensland. Flynn had a vision to use radios and aircraft to connect doctors and patients in remote locations. He engaged Alfred Traeger to develop suitable two-way radios which used a pedal generator to provide reliable power and the service took flight using a de Havilland DH-50 aircraft leased from Qantas which is another Queensland icon. The RFDS continues to operate a fleet
Baron Cloncurry divorced his first wife, Elizabeth Georgiana Morgan, in 1811 after a particularly scandalous lawsuit, on the ground of her adultery with Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet. The titles descended from father to son until the death of his grandson, the fourth Baron, in 1928. The late Baron was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth Baron. He was unmarried and the titles became extinct on his death on 18 July 1929. The 3rd Baron committed suicide in 1869 by jumping from the third floor of his house, Lyons Place. Baron Cloncurry Baron Cloncurry, of Cloncurry in the County of Kildare,