Re: PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok
A great story about Len was that he once lost the Administrator + wife from a charter in a STOL 310 - somewhere about mid 60's I think. Rumour has it that his hot start procedure was so graphic that the VIP pax decided to abandon ship, with the Administrator declaring you lot are bloody dangerous and I'll be taking this up with management, rant ,rant......Needless to say - nothing happened.
I also remember another Len story regards one of STOL's Aztecs - COB I think, which was rumoured to have a very 'tricky' crossfeed. Len reportedly had been doing a bit of crossfeed practice, and inadvertantly shutdown one donk somewhere over the hills - flew the remaining hour back to POM on one. Pax were very impressed apparently.
Pilots were in short supply there in the 60's, and Loopy continued on undaunted. He was a bit unconventional, but a bloody effective PNG operator. Can still picture him.
happy days