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17th Mar 2013, 03:27

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Gibbesy's book

Hey P2 WDL,

Have quite a few books on TPNG covering everything from the early days, including Gibbesy's story Sepik Pilot - marvellous what's out there. Great photos by Paul Raasch.

Being ex-military have also got James Sinclair's Pacific Island Regiment history TO FIND A PATH, Vols. 1 & 2.

Visited Bobby Gibbes at his Harboard home back in the nineties - and Blackjack Walker was also due to come but couldn't in the end. Bobby gave me a copy of his video on building & flying his tiny twin-engined homebuilt, which I put on DVD.

Gibbesy was a director of Macair in my time, & once I had Blackjack on board the Beech 36 MKF, Lae to Goroka. Blackjack once stayed with us at Mt Isa whilst ferrying a BN2A Islander from PH to PM.

Cheers.

Ben

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