Lapun Tru, this one is for you. Remember the green painted 206.
Nice picture SP, thanks - brings back a lot of memories. I flew a lot of hours in AMS out of Goroka.
Thanks also for the pic of Goroka on final - the Lutheran hangar where I was based is left mid field. Our house was near the hospital, somewhere near the end of the line of trees in the left middle of the pic.
As for the mission strip - that's a tricky one. Might be Tauta, between Dumpu and Madang and above Shaggy Ridge, but I'm not sure. (Tauta was the strip Ray Jensch speared in from).
Them GB strips are all the same, just long enough to get in a couple of rattles of the Rosary beads before take off.
There was a standing joke in the Lutheran Mission that the airstrips were originally intended as tennis courts but they were too small, so they made them airstrips instead...
