Unknown PNG Airstrips?
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1st Photo- Possibly Kamina.
2nd Photo looks awfully familiar just cant put a name to it. But then again, alot of the strips look familiar!! After 27 sectors in a day, you thank god your still alive.
Anyone else have more photos. This is bringing back some fond memories.
2nd Photo looks awfully familiar just cant put a name to it. But then again, alot of the strips look familiar!! After 27 sectors in a day, you thank god your still alive.
Anyone else have more photos. This is bringing back some fond memories.
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Sorry crap photo will get it redone was off 28 year old slide.
Im gonna see who can remember this watering hole?name this bar #1
Lotta memories here virgins deflowered, wives swapped,pistols optional, early dirty movies in adjacent hangar.
Cars crashed in barrets.
Im gonna see who can remember this watering hole?name this bar #1
Lotta memories here virgins deflowered, wives swapped,pistols optional, early dirty movies in adjacent hangar.
Cars crashed in barrets.
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I've had an off-forum suggestion that pic nr 1 could be Emo. I've never been there, so have no way of knowing.
Veg... perhaps Goroka Dero? I've been pished in there any number of times but can never remember what the hell it looks like...
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Veg... perhaps Goroka Dero? I've been pished in there any number of times but can never remember what the hell it looks like...
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G'day all,
I'll give you a hint, the two pictures are actually of the same place, one airborne, prior to landing and taking the other. You needed to have done some work out of Pop with NCA to visit this one regularly and from the airborne piccie you turn on to a left downwind, fly straight at a big rain tree on the ridge opposite, left base and turn a real short finals at the two Buei, Bluei (F@#k it betel nut) palms. If you know the goat track then you will probably know the way out as well (definitely only one) I'm pretty sure it has been named (great memory CC) as Teterbedi but can't be 100% sure. Can any one confirm it.
I'll give you a hint, the two pictures are actually of the same place, one airborne, prior to landing and taking the other. You needed to have done some work out of Pop with NCA to visit this one regularly and from the airborne piccie you turn on to a left downwind, fly straight at a big rain tree on the ridge opposite, left base and turn a real short finals at the two Buei, Bluei (F@#k it betel nut) palms.
If you know the goat track then you will probably know the way out as well (definitely only one) I'm pretty sure it has been named (great memory CC) as Teterbedi but can't be 100% sure. Can any one confirm it.
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First one is definitely Tetebedi, (not Teterbedi), second one is Emo. I don't think they are both Tetebedi as you could see more of the village on the right side if you were at the top of the strip at Emo. Both were pretty long by PNG standards. Used to fly to Tetebedi and Emo from Pom and Girua with Douglas Airways way before Mutly and Milesey thought of NCA. You could practically glide from the Kokoda Gap to Tetebedi. All downhill, leave Kokoda on your left, hug the ranges and in the first major valley on the right was Tetebedi. Emo was a few miles further east.
Conversely if you came out of the Kokoda Gap from POM, maintained altitude and turned left you came across Yongai. At about 7000 feet and carved out of the side of the Owen Stanley Ranges it was real short and had a fair old slope. It always had wicked winds there and was not for the inexperienced. After about 12 noon it was always in cloud. Anyone got a photo of it? I used to have hundreds of photos of PNG's finest but Sooty relieved me of them all years ago.
Speaking of which, does the POM Aero Club still have planes and do training?
Conversely if you came out of the Kokoda Gap from POM, maintained altitude and turned left you came across Yongai. At about 7000 feet and carved out of the side of the Owen Stanley Ranges it was real short and had a fair old slope. It always had wicked winds there and was not for the inexperienced. After about 12 noon it was always in cloud. Anyone got a photo of it? I used to have hundreds of photos of PNG's finest but Sooty relieved me of them all years ago.
Speaking of which, does the POM Aero Club still have planes and do training?
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Ah yes, I remember Yongai. Before the days of Douglas Airways in the Goilala, I used to go there for the old original Central Air Services (aka Circus Air) - not to be confused with the current Central Air Services, which is a completely different mob. Never got a photo of it tho.
Ivan...
Yes and no. Yes, I believe they still own a C152 but no, there's no training. It's just a bar these days.
Ivan...
Speaking of which, does the POM Aero Club still have planes and do training?
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Ozex, I was with Elomair, which became C.A.S.. Were you there when Jean Martin, the founder of Elomair/CAS was sliced up in broad daylight at that village/airstrip just north west of Tapini. His wife was from there. I took the police from POM to investigate. What was the name of that place? I only went there once or twice. I remember carrying a Suzuki jeep to Tapini for Jean in a C206! He bought it in POM, cut it up into pieces and we carted it to TAP in several loads. I don't miss carrying 3 44 gallon drums of fuel around in a 206 but miss all the other parts.
Now to that pub scene. Could it be the Papuan Hotel, the Papuan theatre was just around the corner? Or perhaps the Gateway Hotel?
Now to that pub scene. Could it be the Papuan Hotel, the Papuan theatre was just around the corner? Or perhaps the Gateway Hotel?
Highest whatever in PNG
Great thread guys! Have been testing my airstrip recognition on them, but most seem to have been built after I left in 1970. Good fun stuff and is certainly opening up a few eyes among new CPL's I hear. Used to do a few trips into Omkalai in an Aztec and C185 back in late 60's - it was a good one! Went into Wonenara a few times in the 185 too-it had a nasty wind there early AM if I recollect? I always thought Tetebedi,(back of Mt Obree area) was one mongrel strip as it didn't have much slope, and was rough as in my day.
Looking at a few 'highest ever' posts in PNG, I dragged out a mouldy logbook to be sure of the rego's so here goes:
highest in C185 - 16000 Hagen to Kerema, empty, for a few mins only, in Sept 1968. VH-DJU at that time with STOL in PY.
highest airdrop in PNG? 11000 of food to a bunch of walkers up on the alpine grass country of Mt Victoria,Owen Stanleys N of PY in 1969 - about August - 6.30am - 11000 with the door off -C206 and it was VH-SPC.
On another subject - the movies of PNG flying. There was one made by DCA in the late 60's which I think featured yours in a C185,( probably VH-CMO),rolling ungracefully up the slope and parking. Wondered if anyone ever saw this film, or have a copy?
Hope this contributes something to the thread? Cheers.
Looking at a few 'highest ever' posts in PNG, I dragged out a mouldy logbook to be sure of the rego's so here goes:
highest in C185 - 16000 Hagen to Kerema, empty, for a few mins only, in Sept 1968. VH-DJU at that time with STOL in PY.
highest airdrop in PNG? 11000 of food to a bunch of walkers up on the alpine grass country of Mt Victoria,Owen Stanleys N of PY in 1969 - about August - 6.30am - 11000 with the door off -C206 and it was VH-SPC.
On another subject - the movies of PNG flying. There was one made by DCA in the late 60's which I think featured yours in a C185,( probably VH-CMO),rolling ungracefully up the slope and parking. Wondered if anyone ever saw this film, or have a copy?
Hope this contributes something to the thread? Cheers.
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Ivan nooo not the Papuan.
But it was a first.
RV6 did you fly the Porter for STOL?Speaking of mouldy logbooks check this one
The aztruck came to a sticky end in Milne Bay I believe 1969?
Have a look at the bar photo it about your vintage.
But it was a first.
RV6 did you fly the Porter for STOL?Speaking of mouldy logbooks check this one
The aztruck came to a sticky end in Milne Bay I believe 1969?
Have a look at the bar photo it about your vintage.
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Ivan... that was before my time, but the way I heard it was that it happened at Tapini. Seem to recall someone telling me he'd started a potato crisps manufacturing business there. Is the place you're thinking of, just NW of Tapini, perhaps Erume? I never went there ... it may have been closed by the time I started with CAS.
There was still a lot of stationery around the CAS office and store room, showing the name Elomair, when I was there.
Veg... if it's a pub in Moresby (or anywhere else for that matter
), I'd have NO chance of remembering what it looked like if it served good booze! I suspect most of the others reading this thread may have the same problem...
There was still a lot of stationery around the CAS office and store room, showing the name Elomair, when I was there.
Veg... if it's a pub in Moresby (or anywhere else for that matter
), I'd have NO chance of remembering what it looked like if it served good booze! I suspect most of the others reading this thread may have the same problem...
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Hum..it had a rusty three blade propellor off a zero I think parked outside.
This bar was famous but the other half took it over and drank all the piddle and reduced it to matchwood.
This bar was famous but the other half took it over and drank all the piddle and reduced it to matchwood.
Capt Vege..... looks like the old SPAC bar to me. The tower phone used to be just behind the LH end? Can't see anyone I know, but with advancing senility that's not surprising! We used to water quite a bit there, and rather than be busted coming out the main road into the airport, I used to ride my Suzuki up over the ridge and down over a single plank bridge into the back of Gordon Estate-probably demolished by now!
STOL didn't have Porters up to Feb 70 when I left. Patair had PNG,PNH on line but STOL crew never got near them! I used to drive Patairs' 180,(PNE) around a bit, but nothing else. STOL had about 5 x 185's, 3 Aztecs, 2 x 310's.
I also used to sub on weekends for John Weymouth at Airfast with Aztecs - mostly oilrig, (Glomar) crews out of Daru or Kerema. CP in those days was John Simmler - ex original QF, and a real gentleman. We always picked up some great barramundi in Daru, and that meant back to PY as high as poss to keep 'em cool. PY TWR always knew if we had fish because we were way up, so we had to pay graft to them on arrival.
Pity about SPAC, the 'new' premises looks like the typical bloodhouse.
cheers
STOL didn't have Porters up to Feb 70 when I left. Patair had PNG,PNH on line but STOL crew never got near them! I used to drive Patairs' 180,(PNE) around a bit, but nothing else. STOL had about 5 x 185's, 3 Aztecs, 2 x 310's.
I also used to sub on weekends for John Weymouth at Airfast with Aztecs - mostly oilrig, (Glomar) crews out of Daru or Kerema. CP in those days was John Simmler - ex original QF, and a real gentleman. We always picked up some great barramundi in Daru, and that meant back to PY as high as poss to keep 'em cool. PY TWR always knew if we had fish because we were way up, so we had to pay graft to them on arrival.
Pity about SPAC, the 'new' premises looks like the typical bloodhouse.
cheers
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Sorry RV mate not SPAC.
This is bloody amazing so many TAA guys drank there also task force Air Nugini in the olden days.Sypho was a regular there.
Was a bloody great steak bar close by.
This is bloody amazing so many TAA guys drank there also task force Air Nugini in the olden days.Sypho was a regular there.
Was a bloody great steak bar close by.
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