Unknown PNG Airstrips?
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Feather#3
Sorry about the photo quality its all thats left of an agfa half frame slide.
The strip is definitely near Chimbu you would have flown into it dozens of times.
Max I believe took 402 in there but may have been a one off.
As Pogo would say...."Hello...whats happening chaps?"
Sorry about the photo quality its all thats left of an agfa half frame slide.
The strip is definitely near Chimbu you would have flown into it dozens of times.
Max I believe took 402 in there but may have been a one off.
As Pogo would say...."Hello...whats happening chaps?"
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Im gettin a bit old and silly but the photo is around the right way for me.
If you can put it in your photo shop and reverse it tell me where you reckon it is
Heres the photo again I tizzed it up a bit in photo shopairstrip
Oh I see what you mean by herring bone now,that was more likely to be skid marks from someone frantically ground looping to avoid the cliff at the end of the strip!
There was a fatality from just that.
Im gettin a bit old and silly but the photo is around the right way for me.
If you can put it in your photo shop and reverse it tell me where you reckon it is
Heres the photo again I tizzed it up a bit in photo shopairstrip
Oh I see what you mean by herring bone now,that was more likely to be skid marks from someone frantically ground looping to avoid the cliff at the end of the strip!
There was a fatality from just that.
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Well, although the angle fools me, if there's a cliff at the end with a fatality, it would have to be Bundi!
However, there have been others with fatalities at the far end!
OTOH, if you reversed the slide, it could be Omkali, which was to object of my query in the previous post. It, of course, has a crash-into cliff with fatality as distinct from Bundi's fall-off cliff.
Just writing this, I'm glad I don't fly there any more, but have to agree with Chuck, it was the BEST flying for a young bloke!
G'day and thanks all for the entertaining thread. Really takes one back.
Well, although the angle fools me, if there's a cliff at the end with a fatality, it would have to be Bundi!
However, there have been others with fatalities at the far end! OTOH, if you reversed the slide, it could be Omkali, which was to object of my query in the previous post. It, of course, has a crash-into cliff with fatality as distinct from Bundi's fall-off cliff.
Just writing this, I'm glad I don't fly there any more, but have to agree with Chuck, it was the BEST flying for a young bloke!
G'day and thanks all for the entertaining thread. Really takes one back.
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Man you are absolutely astounding !I didnt think anyone would guess the image had been reversed.
It is of courseOmkali
Quite apart from anything else did the windsock at the bottom give you a clue?It was of course on the wrong side.
HeresOzmates original picture that started all this nonsenseairstrip#2
Could it have been that drainage or whatever that rattled a few cages?
Man you are absolutely astounding !I didnt think anyone would guess the image had been reversed.
It is of courseOmkali
Quite apart from anything else did the windsock at the bottom give you a clue?It was of course on the wrong side.
HeresOzmates original picture that started all this nonsenseairstrip#2
Could it have been that drainage or whatever that rattled a few cages?
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Nice to win one occasionally!
The giveaway is the Gumine Road with the curve in it. Spent a long afternoon waiting there to pick up Laurie Doolan, the DC, and watched his 'Cruiser all the way from Gumine along the road. What threw me was that the trees on the edge of the garden near the windsock had gone and the marked edge of the slope into the flat parking bay wasn't discernable. You've cutoff the cliff away to the left as well.
As to Max driving C402's in there; you should have been standing behind the Pommie test pilot when he took the Skyvan in there as a demo!!?? Landed down the bottom OK, then, against all advice, stuck it into reverse to demo a 'short field'. With the spectators shouting "Don't", he took it out of reverse and we only just made it to the parking bay with full T/O power!
I was, of course, in there at the very least once a day when based in Kundiawa. They must really have fixed the road to close OMK, if I remember an earlier post correctly.
As to the latest, you can't have reversed it cause 'Dear Olde' -CMY reads correctly. Not too many spots with orly approaching from a road on the right either, never mind the little hut. Leave it with me for a bit.
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Nice to win one occasionally!
The giveaway is the Gumine Road with the curve in it. Spent a long afternoon waiting there to pick up Laurie Doolan, the DC, and watched his 'Cruiser all the way from Gumine along the road. What threw me was that the trees on the edge of the garden near the windsock had gone and the marked edge of the slope into the flat parking bay wasn't discernable. You've cutoff the cliff away to the left as well.
As to Max driving C402's in there; you should have been standing behind the Pommie test pilot when he took the Skyvan in there as a demo!!?? Landed down the bottom OK, then, against all advice, stuck it into reverse to demo a 'short field'. With the spectators shouting "Don't", he took it out of reverse and we only just made it to the parking bay with full T/O power!
I was, of course, in there at the very least once a day when based in Kundiawa. They must really have fixed the road to close OMK, if I remember an earlier post correctly.
As to the latest, you can't have reversed it cause 'Dear Olde' -CMY reads correctly. Not too many spots with orly approaching from a road on the right either, never mind the little hut. Leave it with me for a bit.
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Hmmm Veg........I don't think reversing pics is playing fair
Re the road from Kundiawa to Omkali........well it WAS passable a lot of the time ........until a HUGE landslide in 87 moved about 2 square miles of country down several hundred meters.....I kid you not, it was so huge that trees and houses on it were not damaged.......just not geographically in the same place anymore
Chuck
Re the road from Kundiawa to Omkali........well it WAS passable a lot of the time ........until a HUGE landslide in 87 moved about 2 square miles of country down several hundred meters.....I kid you not, it was so huge that trees and houses on it were not damaged.......just not geographically in the same place anymore
Chuck
Decided to pull out the old photo album and join in. I am also trying a different site so I hope it works ok.
Any ideas?
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Any ideas?
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Jesus Chee Air.
Well it wouldnt be to far away from Lae cos the villianous old prick would freak out about the money from his trade stores losing interest on the flight in.
I'd go for Kaianteba.
BTW feather#3 who was the Dutch dude running Chimbu TAL, Henk Van der something?
Were you before the qaintarse cadets? (oops were you one of them?)
Well it wouldnt be to far away from Lae cos the villianous old prick would freak out about the money from his trade stores losing interest on the flight in.
I'd go for Kaianteba.
BTW feather#3 who was the Dutch dude running Chimbu TAL, Henk Van der something?
Were you before the qaintarse cadets? (oops were you one of them?)
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This one made Cedric cry. P2-NAM at Lowai in Aug of 79.
And I got in to trouble because I didn't write it off!!!
Oh well at least I walked away from it...
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And I got in to trouble because I didn't write it off!!!
Oh well at least I walked away from it...
WILL REPOST WHEN I CHANGE STORAGE
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Grandpa Aerotart
Ahhhh........clearly it wasn't slippery ENOUGH olderairhead......if it had been you'd have done either no damage at all.......or made Cedric a happy man
I landed at Lab Lab once in heavy rain........found out how bad the drainage was when I plonked into about 3 inches of water
Shoulda seen that sucker aquaplane on those damn double wheel bogies...........and the 'bow wave' from the nosewheel of course is aimed straight at the props.....which then flings it back onto the windscreen............couldn't see a bloody thing...........except for a big green tree frog that somehow made it onto the windscreen in one piece
Slid to a halt going backwards with heaps of thrust as 'brakes'.....believe it or not I could see vastly more of what was going on when I was 'reversing' at 15 knots
Chuck.
I landed at Lab Lab once in heavy rain........found out how bad the drainage was when I plonked into about 3 inches of water
Shoulda seen that sucker aquaplane on those damn double wheel bogies...........and the 'bow wave' from the nosewheel of course is aimed straight at the props.....which then flings it back onto the windscreen............couldn't see a bloody thing...........except for a big green tree frog that somehow made it onto the windscreen in one pieceSlid to a halt going backwards with heaps of thrust as 'brakes'.....believe it or not I could see vastly more of what was going on when I was 'reversing' at 15 knots
Chuck.
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oldie!
HTF did you do that?
Chuck, a tri Falc-900 (the same as yours?), showed-up here yesterday, but sporting a November rego. Had me wandering over untill I realised......
Hows the "new" light twin?
Was N82RP.
Chuck, a tri Falc-900 (the same as yours?), showed-up here yesterday, but sporting a November rego. Had me wandering over untill I realised......
Hows the "new" light twin?
Was N82RP.