Isn't it nice for a change to read a thread where there is a bit of enjoyable reminiscing instead of most of the crap that goes on here. I remember as a kid in Madang in the 1950's riding my bike out to "ples balus" and there was generally about 15 or so QANTAS and MAL DC-3's, a couple of Gibbes Sepik Airways JU-52's and Norsemans, and assorted Dragon rapides, tigermoths etc that belonged to Madang Airservices (MAS), and TAL around. I remember going to the first Goroka show in a JU-52 in about 1956 or so.