In the 2003 Queen's Birthday honours, Mac was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) "for services to the promotion of aviation safety".
NEVER WAS GONG MORE DESERVED
The only comparable contributor to Mac to the specific literature of the hands-on, practical side of civil aviation in Australia, as in lessons to be learned and the roots of the systems from which we today derive a large part of our safety consciousness, was the late highly esteemed, Don Charlwood. Mac and Don, (good friends), shared a rare facility as authors, both with a brilliant flare to capture the essence, the very nub of their concern for contributing to the priceless store of knowledge and experience in fields they devoted such a large part of their lives to.
Shortly before he passed on, Mac donated his research notes, photographs and aviation library to the Civil Aviation Historical Society,at Essendon Airport.
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