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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest has flown a helicopter around the world.

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Speaker 2: He's flown a hot air balloon across Australia, all while

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Speaker 2: creating an electronics company and Australian geographic Dick Smith, of

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Speaker 2: course we're talking about. He's got a new book called

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Speaker 2: My Adventurous Life. He joins us now Hollo, Dick.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Amanda, Hi, Jonesy Grady to be talking to you,

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Speaker 1: gat to have you on the show again.

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Speaker 3: Dick.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, congratulations and thank you for the five million dollar donation.

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Speaker 1: Not to get it, but.

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Speaker 3: You've got to help people at all times. I was

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Speaker 3: in the Scouts when I was a kid, and the

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Speaker 3: Scout promise was to help other people at all times while.

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Speaker 1: I was in the Scouts as well. But I haven't

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Speaker 1: given anyone done dollars.

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Speaker 2: I've done nothing, and you've done so much.

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Speaker 3: Dick.

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Speaker 2: You'd have covered all your badges. You wouldn't have any

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Speaker 2: rooms on your shirt.

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Speaker 3: It's about the only qualification I have is my Baiden

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Speaker 3: Power Award in Scouts, and I'm very proud of it.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough to you are such an adventurer. Five times

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Speaker 2: you've flown around the world, including the first solo helicopter circumnavigation.

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Speaker 2: So much you've done to explore the last two years,

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Speaker 2: no one's been allowed to do anything. How is it

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Speaker 2: your adventurous spirit survived?

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Speaker 3: It's been terrible. Halfway through. Pip and I have been

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Speaker 3: driving a four wheel drive around Australia, but in June

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Speaker 3: we got to Darwin and it's been locked up there

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Speaker 3: ever since, and we're locked up in Sydney. So we

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Speaker 3: just can't wait to get back into driving around this country.

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Speaker 3: I've flown five times around the world, as you said,

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Speaker 3: but nothing better than driving around Australia. It's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So your truck's up in Darwin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, heah, the truck's up in Darwen in a shed

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Speaker 3: and we can't get back there because we want to

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Speaker 3: drive along the northern side of the Gulf of Carpenteria.

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Speaker 3: I've flown that in the helicopter a couple of times

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Speaker 3: and it's an incredible area, so we want to do

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Speaker 3: it on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Do you have to get one of those lithium jump

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Speaker 1: started things from dick Smith Electronics.

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Speaker 3: It's probably right.

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Speaker 2: You say that your only qualification is your Baden pal badge.

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Speaker 2: When you're a scout. But all this stuff you've achieved,

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Speaker 2: did you pop out of the womb fearless? How have

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Speaker 2: you achieved all of this? And what can we learn

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Speaker 2: from you?

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Speaker 3: Well a lot of it. The book explains when I

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Speaker 3: was young, I had this wonderful mother and father who

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Speaker 3: gave me one rule. When I got home from school

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Speaker 3: at Roseville, I had to change out of my school

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Speaker 3: uniform and be home by dark, and I was allowed

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Speaker 3: to go exploring myself all around the bush at rosewell Bridge.

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Speaker 3: And that sort of gave me the spirit of adventure.

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Speaker 3: And then one day I was given a flight in

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Speaker 3: a helicopter and I thought, this is like a magic carpet.

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Speaker 3: It's the ultimate off road vehicle. And I think I

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Speaker 3: was about thirty eight years of age, and from then

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Speaker 3: on I was flying around the world, or flying to

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Speaker 3: the North Pole, or just flying around Australia.

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Speaker 1: So you went up in a helicopter and you thought,

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Speaker 1: this seems to be okay, because what I know about helicopters,

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Speaker 1: they're very hard to fly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it took me quite a while to learn to fly.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a natural pilot, and helicopters are quite unstable.

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Speaker 3: Someone said, they're like trying to ride a unicycle on

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Speaker 3: a greasy surface plate. But once you get in the

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Speaker 3: knack of it, the human body is incredible. And it

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Speaker 3: took me about thirty hours of flying to get the

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Speaker 3: knack of it. Now, when I jump into the chopper,

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Speaker 3: it's just like a third part of my body. It

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Speaker 3: just goes exactly where I wanted to go.

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Speaker 1: But you've had crashes, haven't you in a helicopter?

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Speaker 3: No, Now, I've never put a mart Look. I've done

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Speaker 3: five flights around the world, two by helicopter, three by

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Speaker 3: fixed wing, and I've never put a mark on an aircraft.

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Speaker 3: How's that for luck? WHOA?

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Speaker 2: You must be a pretty good mechanic because you've got

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Speaker 2: to rely on yourself to fix things.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but it's amazing. I owe my life to I

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Speaker 3: call it North American technology. It is just so reliable.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't be here if my little engine

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Speaker 3: I had single engine. In the solo helicopter crossing the Atlantic,

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Speaker 3: I crossed in a storm and in the end I try,

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Speaker 3: I thought, I'm not going to be able to get

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Speaker 3: to Iceland. I'll have to turn back to Greenland. And

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Speaker 3: I'm over this violent ocean. But then the weather had

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Speaker 3: closed in on me, and as I explained in the book,

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Speaker 3: I thought, what am I going to do?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: I'm sort of going around in circles. But then I decided,

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Speaker 3: now I'll keep on going towards Iceland. And I just

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Speaker 3: got through. But I just knew if that little engine

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Speaker 3: had failed, well, I'd be down in the ocean and

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Speaker 3: very likely not around anymore.

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Speaker 2: You take your wife, Pip with you. She's very trusting

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Speaker 2: when you go on these adventures.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she's of course, she didn't come on the

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Speaker 3: silo flight because it was solo. But now see this.

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Speaker 3: Then we decided to fly the other way around the

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Speaker 3: world by helicopter, and we took off from our front

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Speaker 3: line here at Terry Hills and flew all the way

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Speaker 3: around the world in a beautiful Sokrsky helicopter, and she

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Speaker 3: came with me. That was okay until we got into

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Speaker 3: a typhoon in the Philippines and nearly crashed the helicopter.

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Speaker 1: But didn't crash. I kind of an organized my bladder

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Speaker 1: requirements on a long flight.

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Speaker 2: Fuel and also from your backyard, Dick says, oh, we're

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Speaker 2: taking off to go around the world. Pack a bag,

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Speaker 2: a really small bag. We're going now.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened.

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Speaker 2: She's a good woman.

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Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you. The new book, My

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Speaker 1: Adventurous Life is in all Good bookstores today. Dick Smith.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, lovely did me talking to you again? Dick Smith,

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's SA