Unknown PNG Airstrips?
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Hard to believe that this thread already had a total of 241 posts, with 6,828 views, before I posted this. And the "padlock" is nowhere in sight! If this is due to the new server and software, I formally record my thanks to all at "The Towers" for their hard and diligent work! 
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Chuck/Veg ...... It is a pleasure to watch the Jedi at work on this thread. Your collective memories, addled not by old age and strong drink, do you credit. Unless you have been there, this thread would have been condemned as Bulamakaupek.
Gladiators...I salute you.
PS.... Chuck...didn't you take me into Omkalai when we were engaged in the 185 endorsement drama.?? I seem to remember a sharpish left turn out after T/O. To give you credit (If it was indeed you) you sat on your hands. Sadly, my memory is addled by old age and strong drink.!!
Gladiators...I salute you.
PS.... Chuck...didn't you take me into Omkalai when we were engaged in the 185 endorsement drama.?? I seem to remember a sharpish left turn out after T/O. To give you credit (If it was indeed you) you sat on your hands. Sadly, my memory is addled by old age and strong drink.!!
Grandpa Aerotart
Howdy Taildragger.........couldn't a bin Omkalai.......was it one of the 'Jungles' strips outa POM around the Kokoda Gap.....or up around Fane, Tapini, Woitape, Ononge, Kamalai.?
I do remember the time I took yourself and Dennis up to Aiyura in my old balus P2-AWM to look at a C182 that dennis was thinking of buying..............from memory you'd had curry the previous evening
If I was sittin on my hands ya musta bin flyin good shags.......or I was hungover as fark
Chuck.
I do remember the time I took yourself and Dennis up to Aiyura in my old balus P2-AWM to look at a C182 that dennis was thinking of buying..............from memory you'd had curry the previous evening
If I was sittin on my hands ya musta bin flyin good shags.......or I was hungover as fark
Chuck.
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Feather#3 Hmmmm....if you worked for TAL and Ma cair where still operating the Bonanza I know which group you WERENT.
Could be P.T
Do you remember the days when new recruits were given a piece of black velvet cloth to hang on the wall?
When it turned white was time to head south?
I dyed mine.
Could be P.T
Do you remember the days when new recruits were given a piece of black velvet cloth to hang on the wall?
When it turned white was time to head south?
I dyed mine.
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Capt Veg et al
For the sake of updating his old mates, P.E.T. aka "The Slob" has vowed to be 'the last man standing' on the QF B747 'Classics". With the exodus of more senior chaps, he's now #1 in line seniority and quite enjoying it. Refurbishment of the B747-338's to near -400 interior standard means they'll be around until the A380 intro in 2006, so he's set for a while.
As to determining the time to head South? I'd started to look at Chimbu meri's thinking they were attractive if I ignored their feet. Departed a couple of months later!!
Thanks to you all for a walk through memory lane. Even pulled out my old composite WAC which is considerably the worse for age to look up some old locations. However, the visual picture of some has held for 33 years!
Apinoon
For the sake of updating his old mates, P.E.T. aka "The Slob" has vowed to be 'the last man standing' on the QF B747 'Classics". With the exodus of more senior chaps, he's now #1 in line seniority and quite enjoying it. Refurbishment of the B747-338's to near -400 interior standard means they'll be around until the A380 intro in 2006, so he's set for a while.
As to determining the time to head South? I'd started to look at Chimbu meri's thinking they were attractive if I ignored their feet.
Departed a couple of months later!! Thanks to you all for a walk through memory lane. Even pulled out my old composite WAC which is considerably the worse for age to look up some old locations. However, the visual picture of some has held for 33 years!
Apinoon
I am now up with the times and using fototime, so am reposting.
where is it
And for the other I suppose a short story.
Cedricks store was running low on supplies so late in the arvo he says hurry. So hurry I did. In to NAM and off we go.
Unfortunately on arrival at Lowai it was p!ssing down.
Decided to wait until it had passed then made the approach.
I did not think about rain water running downhill and literally landed in a river.
Brakes don't work so the last resort is a ground loop.
Shame the grass strip turned to rock after 300 degrees of rotation.
The piccies show the result.
what not to do
The funny thing is I had a local sitting in the rh seat who grabbed the controls as it all turned to sh!t. As we exited with him going bush at a rapid rate, I told the onlookers that HE had caused the prang and I was demanding paybacK.
Poor b@stard was not seen again for 4 weeks for fear of payment. He only returned when we let it be known that he was "forgiven".
And heres a piccy of the Super Fortress up the Wau valley as of '79.
Super Fortress
where is it
And for the other I suppose a short story.
Cedricks store was running low on supplies so late in the arvo he says hurry. So hurry I did. In to NAM and off we go.
Unfortunately on arrival at Lowai it was p!ssing down.
Decided to wait until it had passed then made the approach.
I did not think about rain water running downhill and literally landed in a river.
Brakes don't work so the last resort is a ground loop.
Shame the grass strip turned to rock after 300 degrees of rotation.
The piccies show the result.
what not to do
The funny thing is I had a local sitting in the rh seat who grabbed the controls as it all turned to sh!t. As we exited with him going bush at a rapid rate, I told the onlookers that HE had caused the prang and I was demanding paybacK.
Poor b@stard was not seen again for 4 weeks for fear of payment. He only returned when we let it be known that he was "forgiven".
And heres a piccy of the Super Fortress up the Wau valley as of '79.
Super Fortress
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Ya thats Aseki this is Alisters photty aseki
And heres yoursaseki
Did dozens of coffee shuttles out of there in the 70's in Turbo Porter to Wau.
I think that was also the site of a famous go around in an Aztruck(there was no go around but this dude managed one) that permanently frightened the locals into mumbling messes.
The area beyond the threshold in the distance was a burial area you could fly past and see old bodies sitting up in the trees.
Hope i got this right.
Ya thats Aseki this is Alisters photty aseki
And heres yoursaseki
Did dozens of coffee shuttles out of there in the 70's in Turbo Porter to Wau.
I think that was also the site of a famous go around in an Aztruck(there was no go around but this dude managed one) that permanently frightened the locals into mumbling messes.
The area beyond the threshold in the distance was a burial area you could fly past and see old bodies sitting up in the trees.
Hope i got this right.
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Grandpa Aerotart
Thought it was Baindong........luv these 'sepia' photos Olderairhead
Vege those bodies are in wooden 'frames' on a ledge a little further around on the left in the photo..............we used to roar past in Bn2s trying to shake them off.........but it didna work
Lowai, Kisengan and another just before the 20 mile Gap were the other places I checked myself into the same morning as Bawan, thereby 'earning' my ANO 28 exemption.
Chuck.
Vege those bodies are in wooden 'frames' on a ledge a little further around on the left in the photo..............we used to roar past in Bn2s trying to shake them off.........but it didna work
Lowai, Kisengan and another just before the 20 mile Gap were the other places I checked myself into the same morning as Bawan, thereby 'earning' my ANO 28 exemption.
Chuck.
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See Chuck
Mum an the kids reckon I got alcoholzeimers but I m doin ok aint I?
Hmmm is kisengan close to Nadzab?
Used to do coffee shuttle out of there to to Nadzab come up valley turn right onto final? And baby you had better got that RIGHT!
Vege those bodies are in wooden 'frames' on a ledge a little further around on the left in the photo..............we used to roar past in Bn2s trying to shake them off.........but it didna work
Hmmm is kisengan close to Nadzab?
Used to do coffee shuttle out of there to to Nadzab come up valley turn right onto final? And baby you had better got that RIGHT!
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Grandpa Aerotart
Absoluly caPt.................wa waz yur name agin?
So is that Kisengan OAH?
Kisengan is just inside the Kisengan Gap, through which runs that river that flows past the threshold of 09 at NZB, before Lowai......infact that piccy looks like it may have been taken while tracking from Lowai to kisengan Gap........a little further east was Boana and a little uphill from there was Bawan.......past Bawan and around the corner was Baindong and Kasenombe a little east again.
Chuckles
So is that Kisengan OAH?
Kisengan is just inside the Kisengan Gap, through which runs that river that flows past the threshold of 09 at NZB, before Lowai......infact that piccy looks like it may have been taken while tracking from Lowai to kisengan Gap........a little further east was Boana and a little uphill from there was Bawan.......past Bawan and around the corner was Baindong and Kasenombe a little east again.
Chuckles
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