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MAF pioneer, Jack Hemmings, performs aerobatics for his 100th birthday
Jack Hemmings - one of MAF’s founding fathers – is performing aerobatics today at White Waltham Airfield in Maidenhead to celebrate his centenary. As Jack takes to the skies in a Slingsby T67 Firefly aircraft, we look back on his early days with MAF…
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Saving babies in South Sudan
MAF South Sudan’s maintenance manager and former electrician, James Mollenhauer, always knew his skills would come in handy on the mission field, but little did he know he would be fixing breathing apparatus for newborns. MAF’s Jenny Davies finds out how some simple repairs have transformed the work of ‘In Deed and Truth Hospital’…
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Go the ‘last mile’ with MAF
July 2021 Appeal
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MAF delivers more coronavirus vaccine to Kalimantan as cases soar
Indonesia has overtaken India as Asia’s ‘Covid-19 hotspot’. Kalimantan in the Indonesian part of Borneo is experiencing a surge of cases. In response, MAF has flown out medics, batches of the Sinovac vaccine and coronavirus tests to contain the outbreak…
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MAF Technologies PNG’s drive to prevent deadly coronavirus misinformation
Human Rights Watch is calling on PNG's authorities to stop disinformation about Covid-19. As coronavirus takes its toll, a growing number of women are being accused of sorcery - at least five have been brutally attacked since March. In response, MAF Technologies PNG is raising vital awareness about the disease...
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Draper, Mark and Steph
Having been accepted by MAF in May 2021 and well on his way to completing his Aircraft Maintenance Licence, the family will move to Uganda in 2022 where Mark will work as an aircraft engineer. Steph also plans to investigate how to use her skills as a midwife to care for the people of Uganda once the family has settled into their new life in Kampala.
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Veale, Matthew
Matthew has been enrolled on MAF UK’s Engineer Trainee programme. He will spend four years training in the UK before joining an MAF programme. He will be part of a team helping to maintain our planes so we can enable our partners to reach isolated communities.
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MAF assists the HALO Trust with new demining project in Angola
It’s been 19 years since Angola’s civil war ended, but still the country is riddled with landmines, which continue to devastate the lives of ordinary people. This month, work started in Cuando Cubango Province in the south, to rid the area of 153 minefields. It would not be possible for HALO to do their work without MAF pilots like Marijn Goud…
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MAF delivers copies of Bible in Chadian Arabic for the first time
25 years in the making, the entire Bible has finally been translated into Chadian Arabic. On 28 May, MAF delivered copies to the remote northern town of Bardaï and dispatched a further batch to Dar Sila in eastern Chad on 24 June. MAF’s Katie Machell reports…
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MAF PNG at 70 – retired pilot Max Meyers meanders down memory lane
On 7 May 1951, MAF conducted its first ever flight in Papua New Guinea. 70 years later, MAF is still going strong and is the longest serving operator in the country. Max joined MAF PNG as a pilot in 1961. From thousands of flights over 17 years, Max remembers one passenger who he’ll never forget…
