Where was the camera?
Well to tell the truth, the aircraft, when dropping goods flew through a kind of trench, which had been dug through a hill.
It was actually on the site, where they were trying to build an airstrip with one Caterpillar D4 and some dynamite. They gave up pretty quickly, as the earth to be moved was such a huge amount, that they would have needed bigger dozers and graders and all the rest of the big stuff. In the picture (please excuse the quality
, as it is a scan from a 1968 poor quality slide taken from a chopper) you can see the place of the airstrip in process in the left upper quarter. The place where the airdrops took place were in the very upper left corner, just above the last buildings.
Very much later a strip was built in Ponampa, but at a totally different site.
While we were there we had three means of getting out of the station: walking for days, driving with a Landrover for six hours or catching a rare ride on the SIL Hughes 300 C Helicopter.
