I see people looking for stories from old-timers, and I guess I must qualify. Does anyone else remember the USAF detachment workng on the HIRAN survey across the Pacific? Operating RB 50's out through the islands.Those big radials sound great, but it seemed they spread an engine over the runway on take-off as a weekly occcurence. Some of them joined our embryo SCUBA group, and we profited when they moved on, a stainless steel 4- gallon thermos got left behind, somehow. Great bit of kit for mixing party punch. They also played a small but critical part in a marine rescue of a fishing party. I was involved in that, with Dave Robbie in his 310. Lots of stories from those days if anyone is really interested.
Anyone still got Aero Club of Papua wings? And how about Crowley wings?
Long time ago....