Originally Posted by
tail wheel
Vic Mans Funeral yesterday. RIP Vic!
Jasper Masklyne passed away last week at 91. Funeral today (Wednesday 27 February) at 3 p.m. Centenary Memorial Gardens, 353 Wacol Station Road, Sumner Park.
Less and less of us as time passes........
Scrolling back a couple of years, came across this.
After leaving New Guinea, due to his friendship with Junior he came to Honiara, was sent to Kendalls to do a Metro 2 endorsement and was in the Solomons for at least 18 months about '82 - 83. Remember checking him on the Kieta route and Port Vila route in it. As we went past the Maskelyn islands on the leg between Santo and Vila he commented on them. Can't say I had noticed them before then.
He had brought his Cessna 182(Angabunga Airways?,or similar!) down from PNG, and I managed to hire it off him (reluctantly on his part) a couple of times so I could take a weekend away on different island resorts, Marau Sound one time I particularly remember with my girlfriend.
He was made Chief Pilot for a while before pulling the pin and going to Brisbane, where he flew the Kingairs when Flightwest started.