There was a great turn up for our August meeting. Thank you to all who came. It was a wet and cold day, so I appreciate your venturing out.
Maybe our speaker was an incentive to come. Our speaker for this month was one of our own members with a very interesting story to relate. When I first approach Jenny Heron she was not too sure, but she spoke for nearly an hour and there were numerous questions asked.
For those of you who missed her presentation, My Life in Aviation, Jenny learned to fly at 16. Jenny joined the RAAF at 18 as Australia's first female Air Defence Controller at Williamtown NSW and was lucky enough to get a few flights in Winjeels, CT4, Macchis, Mirages, Chinooks, Canberra, F4, F111, and Iroquois helicopters. Interestingly, Jenny’s certificate recognising her breaking the sound barrier (see below) features ‘he’ - as one hadn’t been produced in 1977 for ‘she’.
Maybe our speaker was an incentive to come. Our speaker for this month was one of our own members with a very interesting story to relate. When I first approach Jenny Heron she was not too sure, but she spoke for nearly an hour and there were numerous questions asked.
For those of you who missed her presentation, My Life in Aviation, Jenny learned to fly at 16. Jenny joined the RAAF at 18 as Australia's first female Air Defence Controller at Williamtown NSW and was lucky enough to get a few flights in Winjeels, CT4, Macchis, Mirages, Chinooks, Canberra, F4, F111, and Iroquois helicopters. Interestingly, Jenny’s certificate recognising her breaking the sound barrier (see below) features ‘he’ - as one hadn’t been produced in 1977 for ‘she’.
Jenny left the RAAF after four years and became a camera operator with a company doing aerial surveys, travelling around most of Australia in an aircraft and getting paid for it. After leaving there, Jenny joined up as an Air Traffic Controller at Essendon and Melbourne. Jenny met her husband there and moved to Mansfield in 1993. Jenny got her own aircraft in 2015 and "hasn't looked back". Thank you Jenny for a very interesting talk.
At next month's session on September 16 we will once again have one of our members give a talk. Most of you know Meg Dillon. Meg will be talking about Cottage Hospitals in Benalla. Meg spoke on this subject during Heritage week in Benalla and it is a very interesting talk. I hope to see you all there. As I have stated before, we at U3A Benalla have an untapped resource in our members.
Anne Nelson
Anne Nelson
