Old Bar Airstrip
G'day Capt Wally
Thanks for the support. As a C130 F/E I have had the misfortune to have been part of the crew getting bogged. We broke through the taxiway on the island of Daru. Fortunately we had picked up a group of soldiers from PNG and were on our way home. As they had not seen their families for some weeks it was not hard to enlist their help digging the old girl out. There have been a few instances of the Herc getting bogged, usually on bush strips, although I recall one going into a hole which formed when an old 44 gallon drum, used in filling a bomb crater at Rabaul, collapsed beneath the aircraft. We will probably never know who used Old Bar yesterday, which is a pity because we could use his or her help to repair the surface.
Happy landings
Old Fella.