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“Making history . . . saving lives.”
On 18 March 1910, Harry Houdini conducted the first controlled, powered flight in an aeroplane in Australia. Houdini's flight changed the landscape of Australia forever, and today the concept of flying is considered neither fanciful nor impossible - it is simply part of our every day life.
The year 2010 in Australia thus serves as the Centenary of Australian Aviation, and Bendigo pilots Tim Pryse and Ken Evers have developed an exciting project that uniquely commemorates this iconic time in Australian history.
On 8 May 2010, 100 years after Houdini's flight, Ken Evers and Tim Pryse took off from Bendigo, Victoria in an Australian Gippsland Aeronautics GA8-TC Airvan to fly around the world and into aviation history as this will be the very first Australian designed and manufactured aircraft to ever circumnavigate the globe!
You can view Ken and Tim's progress around the world through the amazing technology provided by one of their sponsors: IndigoSat. You can also read their blog as they complete each flight leg. This site, generously sponsored by NTech Media, allows you to practically be a part of this extremely exciting history making flight!
You will notice that there is a facility on this site to donate to both the Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and Pacific (AFAP) and Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). Many of the countries that Ken and Tim will be flying over and landing in are suffering from malaria, and these pilots would like to use this opportunity to raise awareness about the devastating effects of malaria. Both AFAP and MAF are heavily involved in combating malaria in many countries around the world, and Ken and Tim would like to raise $1,000,000 for these charities, and thus the name for this world-first flight: Millions Against Malaria!
So as you peruse through this site and watch history unfold as Ken Evers and Tim Pryse pilot the GA8-TC Airvan around the world, we would encourage to donate generously to these charities. As you will see, your donation does not go through Millions Against Malaria, but directly to the charity itself.
Thank you for visiting this site and being a part of this monumental occasion in aviation history!
Millions Against Malaria's Major Sponsor: Mahindra Aerospace Private LimitedMahindra Aerospace and its subsidiary company GippsAero are pleased to be sponsors of the Millions Against Malaria flight and very proud that it is being flown in a Gipps Aero Airvan GA8 aircraft. Mahindra Aerospace is a new global player in the delivery of aircraft, aero-structural components and aircraft development services. The company is poised to deliver new aircraft to the general aviation sector and capture significant growth opportunities in the defence & civil aerospace market. Its vision is to become a globally recognized manufacturer of aircraft and a Tier 1 supplier of components & assemblies. With its recent acquisition of two Australia-based aviation companies, Gippsland Aeronautics and Aerostaff Australia, Mahindra Aerospace has laid the foundations towards achieving its goals. In addition, a new state-of-the-art component manufacturing facility is being developed in Bangalore. The facility will comprise component and aero-structure assembly expertise in sheet metal, machining and special processing. New aircraft being developed include a 5-seat light utility aircraft (in partnership with India’s National Aerospace Laboratories), a new 10 seat single engine Turboprop utility aircraft and a Twin Turboprop powered 18 seat multi role aircraft. |
