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Definitely New Guinea in the good 'ole days and I suspect the location is Lae and is probably the precursor the the famous beat up by the 'Ta-tas' Electra......a sight to behold!
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Not Port Morbid. Looks like the old Lae town strip?
I'll guess immediately prior to TAA being folded into Air Niugini in November 1973?
I'll guess immediately prior to TAA being folded into Air Niugini in November 1973?
I was driving along and stumbled upon this find. It reminded me of Rob St. John's visits to our area a number of years ago.
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"Captain Boggles and The Matron"
- Rob St. John and Catherine _______?
1995 Warrnambool
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- Rob St. John and Catherine _______?
1995 Warrnambool
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Whatever happened to Captain Boggles and did he have a significant flying history?
I remember him setting up shop at our field and he had placed about 30 signs next to the road every 500 metres or so for 15 kilometres in each direction.. He burnt more diesel than a gas in his smoke system in the Tiger!
I remember him setting up shop at our field and he had placed about 30 signs next to the road every 500 metres or so for 15 kilometres in each direction.. He burnt more diesel than a gas in his smoke system in the Tiger!
Whatever happened to Captain Boggles
and did he have a significant flying history?
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ALP became VCR which I flew for a while. Rigging wasn't right and the fabric on the left elevator was too tight, warping it. Utterly useless brake on the tail wheel. I recall it didn't fly anywhere near straight.
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I recall it didn't fly anywhere near straight.
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I happened to drive by Archerfield yesterday and spotted what I thought was a Douglas A26 (bright orange) under canvas. Is this right? I could be wrong with the a/c id but, as I've always been a WW2 a/c fan, thats the first thing that came to memory. Whats it doing there?
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I happened to drive by Archerfield yesterday and spotted what I thought was a Douglas A26 (bright orange) under canvas. Is this right? I could be wrong with the a/c id but, as I've always been a WW2 a/c fan, thats the first thing that came to memory. Whats it doing there?
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Nice pics Piano, brings back memories of my 900 and 7X time, although to be honest I think Dassault screwed the pooch by having no nose wheel tiller on the 7X..made it feel like a C172 , albeit a $45 million C172!
Nothing of special photographic merit here, but a couple of pictures of the Aerotech / SACFS strategic observation and transport C 208B - codenamed Birddog 500. Not room for very many pax, but lots of electronics, comms and sensing gear to assist and direct the fleet of AT-802s and the ground firefighters to counteract the 'old red enemy' here in the fire danger season.
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A couple of captures from SA CFS partial re-location operations to HAB yesterday. Photographing a water dump in this kind of operation is about the only chance one gets. In a real life situation it simply won't be possible, because being on the fire ground where bombing operations are taking place is very unhealthy - for several obvious reasons .