Used to live next door to 'Greasy" in Ninth St Lae , ( Mace Denheld on the other side ). Quiet Sunday mornings would be disturbed around 0700 with Greasy/Larry/Henry at the bedroom window " Hey Shags , what about a Fourex ?."
He was famous for delaying the DC3 service between Honiara and Rabaul . Schedule was not important , what mattered was he , and the passengers , picking oysters off the rocks at Yandina or Munda . Same in the highlands , where's Larry , Oh he's down the 'Boong' getting the vegetables for Shirley.
His favourite hotel in Port Morbid was the top pub ( The Papuan ) , no matter how full there was always a room available for Capt Blackman. He did an unwilling stint on the F27 but said it was too bloody fast for him.
The DC3 P2-SBW on the pole outside Pixie HQ in POM is named the "Larry Blackman".
Many a young F/O owed their progression in the industry to the man.