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Old 19th Jun 2011, 01:19
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Delta_Foxtrot
 
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FWG by memory

From post #14 et al: VH-FWG used to be operated by a company at Toowoomba (can't recall the name but it had "East" in it somewhere). The Australian Army Survey Corps used to lease it as an aerial photography platform during the 1970s while the Indonesion mapping program was running. I helped change an engine cylinder on it at Nabire (West Irian) in 1978 and had a couple of right-seat rides out of Manado (North Sulawesi) and Gag Island (West Irian) during survey ops in 1979. The pilot in 1979 was a South African named Gordon Egan who had a penchant for low flying over water - must have been a balance reaction to the time spent at high altitude taking photos...
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