yep VH-RAJ, named after
Ray
Jaensch, former chief pilot of Lutheran Mission Aviation, who died in an aircraft accident in 1964 (DO27).
Mista Mausgras, as some people called the liklik balus still lives in Victoria. She was completely overhauled and is in mint condition and very well looked after by her owner.
Yes she was on the market for some time, but the owner has decided to keep her.
On the occasion this image was taken (1969), she was coming in over Ponampa, which didnīt have an airstrip at that time, for an airdrop (note missing door on right side).
We were living on that station at the time and had run out of toiletpaper. The roads to Ponampa were mostly impassable in the rainy season, so airdrops in those times were the only possibility to get badly needed articles. So somebody sewed a whole carton of toiletpaper rolls into a number of bags, took the door out of the wren and kicked the whole pile of bags out of that door during a low pass over the station. Once airborne, the toiletpaper, having hardly any weight and no momentum
(I think thatīs the word), floated smoothly strait down into one hell of a big puddle
(rainy season)
. I remember us stacking the wet rolls around the stove in the kitchen for drying......
Merry Christmas to everybody here