The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions The place for students, instructors and charter guys in Oz, NZ and the rest of Oceania.
    Hide Wikipost
Old 27th Jan 2019, 13:21   -   Wikipost
PPRuNe Forums Thread Wiki: PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok
Please read: This is a community-maintained wiki post containing the most important information from this thread. You may edit the Wiki once you have been a member for 90 days and have made 90 posts.
 
Last edit by: tail wheel
A thread where ex PNG geriatrics lapuns and long longs can live in the dim distant past.

Where tall stories are accepted as fact.

War stories are applauded.

Grab a Brownie, pull up a story and join in a trip down memory lane!!!

Print Wikipost

PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok

Old 15th Oct 2008, 01:31
  #1681 (permalink)  
Silly Old Git
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: saiba spes
Posts: 3,726
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
I don't have an address or phone no. for Mike.
Torres does...
tinpis is offline  
Old 26th Oct 2008, 11:47
  #1682 (permalink)  


PPRuNeaholic
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Cairns FNQ
Posts: 3,255
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Exclamation Sid O'Toole

For those who might be interested, I saw him last week, still full of the usual confidence. Still in the same old job. Seems that they still need him. He hasn't seen any changes since the formal establishment of the Air Accident Commission tho...
OzExpat is offline  
Old 26th Oct 2008, 12:02
  #1683 (permalink)  
Bugsmasherdriverandjediknite
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Bai, mi go long hap na kisim sampla samting.
Posts: 2,849
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Good to know his position wasn't compromised by going public.
could be that very fact that saved him from his superiors so far.
the wizard of auz is offline  
Old 27th Oct 2008, 02:27
  #1684 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Dec 1998
Location: Brisbane Australia
Posts: 235
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
A brave and courageous man . Good to see "they" haven't got to him yet.
HANOI is offline  
Old 27th Oct 2008, 11:16
  #1685 (permalink)  

Retired Tiger pilot
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Club Morocco. Subic Bay. Philippines
Posts: 460
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
El Sid!

Great to read that her is still 'Captain Courageous' and full of beans, enthusiasm and whatever, but what I'd like to hear is that K4.5mil has been put in the coffers as promised some time ago.

Has the dear chap investigated the last two prangs? one a fatal chopper and the other up at kilifas gap?

Sharpie is offline  
Old 27th Oct 2008, 11:46
  #1686 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 569
Received 56 Likes on 14 Posts
I am sure you PNG types already know, but if not, Frank "The Health Inspector" died recently of cancer. I attended his wake in Sept. He was famous for getting a few under his belt and then donning a white chemist coat and shutting down resturants by posing as a health inspector, complete with company ID card! A real character and a personal friend. We seem to be minus the wags these days. I also remember when he was locked up in the 'can' in Darwin, together with the Capt and FE after a very exciting night at the Casino back in the 727 days. A young lass complained about being bitten on the bottom from somebody under the dinner table!! The flight was delayed by 8 hours. Ah the good old days. Now its all powder blue instrument panels, sidesticks and Navbags on wheels.
By George is offline  
Old 27th Oct 2008, 11:59
  #1687 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 569
Received 56 Likes on 14 Posts
Sorry Guys, reading the previous pages you are indeed aware of Franks demise. Still a great loss and will be missed.
By George is offline  
Old 27th Oct 2008, 12:24
  #1688 (permalink)  

Retired Tiger pilot
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Club Morocco. Subic Bay. Philippines
Posts: 460
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
by george

Yes. He was a real character as I said before, and below I copy a 'Quote' for you amusement, received recently from a couple of other characters.



The good ol’ days.

Subject: Aaah....The real world of flying.......!!!

Quote:

Those were the good ole days. Pilots back then were men that didn't want to be women or girlymen. Pilots all knew who Jimmy Doolittle was. Pilots drank coffee, whiskey, smoked cigars and didn't wear digital watches.

They carried their own suitcases and brain bags like the real men that they were. Pilots didn't bend over into the crash position multiple times each day in front of the passengers at security so that some Gov't agent could probe for tweezers or fingernail clippers or too much toothpaste.

Pilots did not go through the terminal impersonating a caddy pulling a bunch of golf clubs, computers, guitars, and feed bags full of tofu and granola on a sissy-trailer with no hat and granny glasses hanging on a pink string around their pencil neck while talking to their personal trainer on the cell phone!!!

Being an Airline Captain was as good as being the King in a Mel Brooks movie. All the Stewardesses (aka.Flight Attendants) were young, attractive, single women that were proud to be combatants in the sexual revolution. They didn't have to turn sideways, grease up and suck it in to get through the cockpit door. They would blush and say thank you when told that they looked good, instead of filing a sexual harassment claim. Junior Stewardesses shared a room and talked about men.... with no thoughts of substitution.

Passengers wore nice clothes and were polite, they could speak AND understand English. They didn't speak gibberish or listen to loud gangsta rap on their IPods. They bathed and didn't smell like a rotting pile of garbage in a jogging suit and flip-flops. Children didn't travel alone, commuting between trailer parks. There were no mongol hordes asking for a "mu-fuggin" seatbelt extension or a Scotch and grapefruit juice cocktail with a twist.

If the Captain wanted to throw some offensive, ranting jerk off the airplane, it was done without any worries of a lawsuit or getting fired.

Axial flow engines crackled with the sound of freedom and left an impressive black smoke trail like a locomotive burning soft coal. Jet fuel was cheap and once the throttles were pushed up they were left there, after all it was the jet age and the idea was to go fast (run like a lizard on a hardwood floor). Economy cruise was something in the performance book, but no one knew why or where it was. When the clacker went off no one got all tight and scared because Boeing built it out of iron, nothing was going to fall off and that sound had the same effect on real pilots then as Viagra does now for those new age guys.

There was very little plastic and no composites on the airplanes or the Stewardesses' pectoral regions. Airplanes and women had eye pleasing symetrical curves, not a bunch of ugly vortex generators, ventral fins, winglets, flow diverters, tatoos, rings in their nose, tongu es and eyebrows.

Airlines were run by men like C.R. Smith and Juan Trippe who had built their companies virtually from scratch, knew many of their employees by name and were lifetime airline employees themselves...not pseudo financiers and bean counters who flit from one occupation to another for a few bucks, a better parachute or a fancier title while fervently believing that they are a class of beings unto themselves.

And so it was back then....and never will be again.



________________________________________

Yes! as peter sharpe remembers the fantastic sound of a couple of 1830's, or the shrill whine of the darts. Yes, even the lads before us, those who WE respected who when all said and done, at the end of the day made you feel proud to be a part, even a small part of the airline. There was character, honesty, men of their word, people you were proud to be associated with, a uniform you were proud to wear(maybe even to bed) and as Ernst Gann wrote, "a Band of Brothers".

Where has it all gone?
Peter.
Sharpie is offline  
Old 28th Oct 2008, 02:02
  #1689 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 569
Received 56 Likes on 14 Posts
Mr Sharpie, Thank you and so true. Maybe Fred V knew it was comming and indeed went into outer space to escape. I still love the job though and have 3 years to run before the old mens home come to take me away.
By George is offline  
Old 28th Oct 2008, 03:57
  #1690 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 34
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Kilifas Gap Accident

Do you have a link or any details on the above Sharpie, or anybody? Thanks
yerex is offline  
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 22:26
  #1691 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 127
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Does anyone here have any more info (e.g. date, location, details) about this incident where Air Niugini Dash 7 P2-ANP ended up in a ditch?

See photos:
Air Niugini incidents

Regards,
David
David Eyre is offline  
Old 4th Nov 2008, 19:23
  #1692 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: new zealand
Posts: 87
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes on 2 Posts
It occured between mid 92 and mid 93 in Port Moresby when I was working down the apron at the GA ramp. I think Oct or Nov 92. Have a photo but no better than the ones posted.
Apparantly the Dash was under tow with a 'trained person' in the Flight Deck. The tow became disconnected for some reason at which point 'Trained person' had his moment of glory to apply the brakes and bring the affair to a halt on the sloping apron.
Instead both training and the person headed out the window (literally) and the Dash was left to the forces of gravity and the drain. There was substantial damage due twisting of the wing, fuse and engine nacelle. We assume the one who abandoned ship skipped Tea and Biccies and fled straight back to the Jungle!

Last edited by saabsforever; 4th Nov 2008 at 19:27. Reason: Add place of incident
saabsforever is offline  
Old 4th Nov 2008, 21:12
  #1693 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Various
Age: 74
Posts: 378
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Angel

DH7 P2-ANP.
They never had any brake pressure in the system when they towed it. When one of the "trained experts" decided it was time to disconect the toe bar,it was found that the toe pin was jammed,so the expert decided to get a hammer and knock the pin out . After the pin was hammered out the aircraft rolled down the slope and ended up it the drain.
Waghi Warrior is offline  
Old 4th Nov 2008, 23:51
  #1694 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 127
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Many thanks saabsforever and Waghi Warrior for the info.

This aircraft is still flying, but in much colder weather in Canada as C-FWZV: De Havilland Canada DHC-7-103 Dash 7, C-FWZV, Air Tindi

Regards,

David
David Eyre is offline  
Old 9th Nov 2008, 09:35
  #1695 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: queensland
Posts: 20
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The Hostie in the photo with Fearless Feeney

The photo on page 83 with, Mike ( Fearless ) Feeney and one of our GREAT Hosties is, D-wn R-tl-dge.

A magic young Lady, then and still is, I might add, but a wee bit older.

The photo was taken, from memory in 70 or 71.

You should see the next photo, hilarious.

Apinun olgeta,

Wombat Four
wombat four is offline  
Old 9th Nov 2008, 13:18
  #1696 (permalink)  


PPRuNeaholic
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Cairns FNQ
Posts: 3,255
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
G'day Sharpie,
AFAIK, the answers to your questions are...


No

and, as you might expect from the above answer...

No

Did you really expect any other answer?
OzExpat is offline  
Old 4th Dec 2008, 20:19
  #1697 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Various locations...
Posts: 123
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Hi Linedriver - just found this thread and your old post;

Gents, I’m looking for anyone who was involved as a civilian pilot in the search for the RAAF Caribou that crashed in the Kudgeru Gap in New Guinea on 28 August 1972. If you were involved, or know someone who was, I’d appreciate you contacting me by PM.
Check your PMs
skywagondriver is offline  
Old 6th Dec 2008, 22:27
  #1698 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Perth
Age: 71
Posts: 284
Likes: 0
Received 6 Likes on 4 Posts
PNGDF C-47 Photo Request

Any one out there got some high quality shots of PNGDF C-47s / DC3s?

I particularly want a good shot of the green and gold bird marking on the fin.

I am making some decals for a model and I just dont have a good enough picture of this "logo"

TIA

wal
cac_sabre is offline  
Old 7th Dec 2008, 14:16
  #1699 (permalink)  

Retired Tiger pilot
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Club Morocco. Subic Bay. Philippines
Posts: 460
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
CAC Sabre

try michie.net or just, PNGDF C47.

Hopefully you will end up with a shot of PNGDF 001 landing from which you may be able to enlarge the shot to study the logo.

Happy modeling.
Sharpie is offline  
Old 9th Dec 2008, 02:15
  #1700 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 55
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Dero Club

Well, after nearly thirty years in the industry on Thursday I finally had my first beer (or first of several) in the famous Dero Club. Feels like some kind of a milestone in my career even if it has taken so long.

Seemed to be full of characters at the time too. I enjoyed every moment.
walschaert valve is offline  

Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.