Old Smokey
2000 pnds of cement on the keel would have been a BIG handicap for a Gooney. Probably meant that your AUW fully loaded was always 2000 pnds over.
Must have been a hell of a job getting the cement out. Any Pictures?
I think it was 26,000 pnds AUW for civil and 28,500 for Mil.
Do you know whether a Gooney had any lead in the nose?
And was Leon Murtagh with you in PNG ?