Pictorial special by Aeronautical Correspondent Abra .
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Memorial to Tommy McDonald who first landed an aircraft on a saltpan in 1928 which became the Cairns Airport , from which he flew many mercy flights. He pioneered commercial flights and mail services far and wide . Journalist , historian , artist , North Australian Monthly editor , longtime columnist in the North Queensland Register and publisher , Glenville Pike , who wrote many books about Queensland and the Northern Territory , encouraged people in the North to write their memoirs, including McDonald.
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