Cloncurry Airport Cloncurry Airport Cloncurry Airport is an airport in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. Cloncurry Airport has been the focal point for many of Australia’s greatest innovations. Cloncurry was involved with the beginnings of QANTAS, and the original QANTAS hangar is still in use at the aerodrome, where "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service" is still displayed above the hangar door. The Royal Flying Doctor Service was founded there in 1928, now recognised the world over. The airport was also on route for early planes coming from overseas and a stopping place for contestants in the great air races of 1919 and 1934.
John Flynn (director) assistant on "Odds Against Tomorrow". Flynn subsequently worked as the script supervisor on "West Side Story" and as a second assistant director on "Kid Galahad" and "Two for the Seesaw". He then worked as first assistant director on "The Great Escape" and second unit director on "Kings of the Sun" ("a bullshit script, a popcorn script," according to Flynn). This was directed by J. Lee Thompson who used Flynn again as an assistant director on "What a Way to Go!" and "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!". In 1966, Wise set up a company to produce low-budget films that others would