LOW act!
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.........there is told a story about Rod M. the former chief pilot of Airlink in Rabaul days who was addressing the golf ball on the first tee at the Ralum Club but whose concentration was disturbed by not one, but two company a/c racing along the coastline below coconut palm height ....and certainly below the height of the 1st tee.
hmmmmm .... office bound again.
All credit to you Rod, I still never heard you raise your voice!
hmmmmm .... office bound again.
All credit to you Rod, I still never heard you raise your voice!
Grandpa Aerotart
Almost right......Rocket was raising the first cold one to his lips when the first 404 went roaring past well below the level of the Ralum Club verandah...and coconut palms...and probably anyone standing under them
. Assorted drinking buddies gave him some stick and just as beer was heading mouthwards again the second roared past
Ahhh ****!!!
Next moaning in office..."Dave was that you low flying yesterday?" " Nah that was Ricky.....twice!"
Both widebody longhaul Captains now
...and pillars of society
Chuckles.
EDIT: Rod thought it as funny as everyone else. A while later a new pilot thought it would be fun to fly from Sule to Bialla at zot feet long the beach, empty, and got dobbed by some plantation owner....the only one for freaking miles
As Rod said to me, with a rye smile, after the call.."How unlucky can a young bloke be...dobbed in the very first time?"
. Assorted drinking buddies gave him some stick and just as beer was heading mouthwards again the second roared past Ahhh ****!!!
Next moaning in office..."Dave was that you low flying yesterday?" " Nah that was Ricky.....twice!"
Both widebody longhaul Captains now
...and pillars of society Chuckles.
EDIT: Rod thought it as funny as everyone else. A while later a new pilot thought it would be fun to fly from Sule to Bialla at zot feet long the beach, empty, and got dobbed by some plantation owner....the only one for freaking miles
As Rod said to me, with a rye smile, after the call.."How unlucky can a young bloke be...dobbed in the very first time?"
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Chuckles; If anyone would know it should be you; does 'Lik Lik' peruse these hallowed pages?
If not, why not????
Next time you see him ask him to PM/write/ring me would you please?
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
If not, why not????
Next time you see him ask him to PM/write/ring me would you please?
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
Some years ago there was a piccy in the crash comic of a cropduster demonstrating hydroplaning on some lake or river (I think in PNG). Can someone post that if they have it?
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Dogcharlie It's called skiing but isn't practiced much in these days of million dollar turbo props , bit hard explaining how you ended up in the channel to your friendly insurance broker.
I'd post pics but am unable at the moment.
BTW, surely that 707 photo is a normal rotation with the gear airbrushed out, even we're not that crazy!!
I'd post pics but am unable at the moment.
BTW, surely that 707 photo is a normal rotation with the gear airbrushed out, even we're not that crazy!!
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jedda; I try not to. However when it's 44C in the waterbag and I'm halfway up a 12 foot ladder with a 12kg bag of oranges hanging off me it's sometimes very hard to not look back and ask myself..................................................
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
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Don't claim to be a hero or anything like that but, I remember flying a low wing retractable up the east coast some years ago at a fairly low level for an hour or so .I rounded a point and scared some surfers waiting for a wave. They were startled and jumped, I was equally startled and pulled up. On landing, I noticed that the fuse from behind the front seats to the tail was covered with dried salt water spray.
Have also circled ships ( at sea)at night below mast height ,in a past life.
No photos.
Have also circled ships ( at sea)at night below mast height ,in a past life.
No photos.
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Yes, I guess we have all "done it" at some stage in our careers, before we have grown up, but it is so unnecessary.
In varying degrees, aviation in all its forms, is hazardous enough without adding to it.
"Air show" flying is a full time occupation and extremely hazardous. It is even more so when performed by a "part timer." Best left to the professionals.
In varying degrees, aviation in all its forms, is hazardous enough without adding to it.
"Air show" flying is a full time occupation and extremely hazardous. It is even more so when performed by a "part timer." Best left to the professionals.
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Who remembers Don Kendall in Madang? He who flew me below the Madang Golf Clubhouse on a "coastwatchers memorial one" arrival and once IFR through the Jimi gap. I kid you not!
Dave H is retired on the Murray River.(Well beside it anyway)
I must get my slides out and post DC3 formation flying pics taken with 3 DC3s between Madang and Mendi. I have movies as well, the same one's Fatty pinched and showed to Frank Fisher when he was on a goodwill tour of NG. Frank's comment as he viewed the film was reportedly "Boys will be boys"
I was on the tarmac at Lae the day Ray did his beat up, his wing tip was below a Twotter's parked on the ramp. Someone has a photo showing one of the LAMEs prostrating himself on the ground and dropping his camera to avoid the Dak's prop.
My God! They were the days..........
Oh, and it wasnt SBD as that had the "Sunduck" on the tail or maybe it had been repainted by then. Me old memory dims.........the constant battering my brain got in the Transair Lodge Bar in Lae is now taking effect. Which is probably why I dont know how to upload photos to this forum...anybody help?
Dave H is retired on the Murray River.(Well beside it anyway)
I must get my slides out and post DC3 formation flying pics taken with 3 DC3s between Madang and Mendi. I have movies as well, the same one's Fatty pinched and showed to Frank Fisher when he was on a goodwill tour of NG. Frank's comment as he viewed the film was reportedly "Boys will be boys"
I was on the tarmac at Lae the day Ray did his beat up, his wing tip was below a Twotter's parked on the ramp. Someone has a photo showing one of the LAMEs prostrating himself on the ground and dropping his camera to avoid the Dak's prop.
My God! They were the days..........
Oh, and it wasnt SBD as that had the "Sunduck" on the tail or maybe it had been repainted by then. Me old memory dims.........the constant battering my brain got in the Transair Lodge Bar in Lae is now taking effect. Which is probably why I dont know how to upload photos to this forum...anybody help?
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I think everyone agrees that such flying has a degree of danger involved , and in no way can it be condoned (Now "politically correct" immuninized?) BUT one must admire the handling skills demonstrated by such feats. And I feel that these same skills are sadly lacking in a lot of the "New generation" of system operators we now call pilots. Degrade such antics as irresponsable and unprofessional , but I for one will sadly miss those "Magnificent men and their flying machines" and an era of aviation that has passed . Bean counters 1 , pilots 0
One who frequents these forums would recall the Buka act. I still remember the look on the ship's skippers face!
Yup. About two foot higher than Parker's IFR approach into LAE in the Baron...........
Stilll laugh at Junior's comment: "Can't drown the
. Can't burn the . Better sack the ."
Yup. About two foot higher than Parker's IFR approach into LAE in the Baron...........
Stilll laugh at Junior's comment: "Can't drown the
. Can't burn the . Better sack the ."
Grandpa Aerotart
Torres, yes one of the greatest quotes of PNG aviation. Along with Parker's allegged words to his (bleeding) passenger after the CFIW Huon Gulf incident. "Get the **** away from me...haven't you heard about SHARKS?"...or words to that effect.
Yes flying below 500' is illegal in Oz (wasn't in PNG) but it's not in many other places like the US and UK. There you must be 500' from things...not the ground. It can be done 'safely' and it's lots of fun...especially recalling a period which has virtually passed in PNG aviation...although I reckon the few young blokes left 'doing their time' up there are having as much fun as we did years ago. The golden era in PNG ended in about 94, when the Kina was floated...it may have even ended before that when Talair shut up ops in 93. We all had lots of fun times and I personally recollect no-one killed or otherwise hurt doing beatups...well their may have been one who may have been doing one with a donk feathered on a twotter..Torres?
I am sure a few people on here remember the Dash 8 Go Pinis party at Dreamworld in Moresby? When a certain chap came through the compound in a Bandit to let wife (and the assembled party) know he was home. We were all sitting in the hauswin enjoying a coldie when the landing lights were spotted some miles out coming over Parliament Haus. As said Bandit went between the houses and just over the pool and hauswin the CP said to me "Chuck tell me that wasn't one of ours?" "Ummm " Al Craigie (Operations boss PNG DCA) just chuckled and raised his beer. Some many hours later said pilot also tried to jump the pool on 'Black Jack' Mckew's C90 step through And was involved in a an unsidedown drinking competition with CM...now a 'balloon examiner' 
with CASA. The sight of her hubby hanging by his knees from the hauswin roof beam, next to Clive, drinking an SP was one thing...when we pulled their shorts 'up' around their knees trapping them on the beam and shoved opened full SP bottles in their cracks...which proceeded to froth impressively she was less enthused
Funny days full of comraderie and 'pilot hijinks'
Yes flying below 500' is illegal in Oz (wasn't in PNG) but it's not in many other places like the US and UK. There you must be 500' from things...not the ground. It can be done 'safely' and it's lots of fun...especially recalling a period which has virtually passed in PNG aviation...although I reckon the few young blokes left 'doing their time' up there are having as much fun as we did years ago. The golden era in PNG ended in about 94, when the Kina was floated...it may have even ended before that when Talair shut up ops in 93. We all had lots of fun times and I personally recollect no-one killed or otherwise hurt doing beatups...well their may have been one who may have been doing one with a donk feathered on a twotter..Torres?
I am sure a few people on here remember the Dash 8 Go Pinis party at Dreamworld in Moresby? When a certain chap came through the compound in a Bandit to let wife (and the assembled party) know he was home. We were all sitting in the hauswin enjoying a coldie when the landing lights were spotted some miles out coming over Parliament Haus. As said Bandit went between the houses and just over the pool and hauswin the CP said to me "Chuck tell me that wasn't one of ours?" "Ummm
" Al Craigie (Operations boss PNG DCA) just chuckled and raised his beer. Some many hours later said pilot also tried to jump the pool on 'Black Jack' Mckew's C90 step through And was involved in a an unsidedown drinking competition with CM...now a 'balloon examiner' with CASA. The sight of her hubby hanging by his knees from the hauswin roof beam, next to Clive, drinking an SP was one thing...when we pulled their shorts 'up' around their knees trapping them on the beam and shoved opened full SP bottles in their cracks...which proceeded to froth impressively she was less enthusedFunny days full of comraderie and 'pilot hijinks'
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Some years ago there was a piccy in the crash comic of a cropduster demonstrating hydroplaning on some lake or river (I think in PNG). Can someone post that if they have it?