Guest Speaker December 2025

Lynton is a retired public servant and President of the Friends of the Grear Victorian Desert (GVD), a group of volunteers who work to preserve the remote desert region, which stretches across South Australia and Western Australia over 400,000 sq Km) together within Department for Environment and Water.  Lynton described the features of the area and its use as a rocket range from Woomera and atomic bomb in the 1950’s. 

Guest Speaker November 2025

Dr. Bill Runciman spoke about Gyrocopter around Oz.  His address opened with an explanation of the types of aircraft in this field,  powered by both petrol and battery. He continued with the reason he chose to fly mainly coastlines and then described his 4-stage journey covering the coastline of Australia 

Guest Speaker October 2025

Robert Davis from a groupn set up to obtain and rstore the Clipper Ship “City of Adelaide”. He started with the history of the “City of Adelaide “., built 1864and its role in transporting up to 300 settler each trip to SA. He described some of the details of the ship with some of the noted people in SA  who were immigrants via her.