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Old 8th Aug 2010, 06:39
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Stationair8
 
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Flight Plan PNG, what a fantastic book and a great insight into the life of a commercial pilot flogging around the last frontier, in single-engine Cessna's.

Our newly opened school library somehow acquired a copy, and and as a kid I could sniff out an aviation book at fifty paces. I would have read it at least half a dozen times and always managed to borrow it for the school holidays.

I recently saw a copy for sale at well known bookshop in the Melbourne CBD, that specialises in second hand books. It cetainly bought back fond memories as I last read the book in 1977.

If she is 94 now, she would been up there flying in the late 1960's, which would make in her late 40's which again is a remarkable feat for a woman in those times. Did she fly commercially in Australia before going to PNG?
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