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A thread where ex PNG geriatrics lapuns and long longs can live in the dim distant past.
Where tall stories are accepted as fact. War stories are applauded. Grab a Brownie, pull up a story and join in a trip down memory lane!!! 
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PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok
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G'day Exaviator
........and welcome. Send me an email address to [email protected] and I'll send you the preamble to my book on TAA-NG (1960/1973), currently titled "NOT EXACTLY BLOODY NORMAL". It's about 3 pages and a bit long to post here, plus I think many regulars have already seen it. Cheeers.
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Congratulations Captain Aria Bouraga
........during my 6 years, (1989/1995), at PX, Captain Aria Bouraga came and went as rostered, and got the job done with a minimum of fuss, which is perhaps why I didn/t know him as well as some others. He was a fine example to younger national pilots following in his footsteps. Well done Aria.
Grandpa Aerotart
Aria Bouraga is a true gentleman and was always a delight to fly with. I'd like to congratulate him on a fantastic career.
Always the professional with a ready wit and great sense of humour, always an excellent mentor to the cadets. A skillful and relaxed pilot with a passion for the F28.
Well done Aria!!!
Always the professional with a ready wit and great sense of humour, always an excellent mentor to the cadets. A skillful and relaxed pilot with a passion for the F28.
Well done Aria!!!
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QF Cadets/Initial PX Pilot Intake
Tks tinpis. I'll check RB. I was surprised to see those pilots listed as QF cadets, and I wonder what the thinking was on them. The intake was primarily for PX, and I doubt many QF cadets were thinking longterm along those lines ? QF was a shareholder, and would have had some say, so it may have been for their own training purposes ? Or were they having trouble getting the numbers for PX, and QF were helping out ? I doubt that, but maybe ? I would have thought there were genuine PX applicants lining up, but were such as PNG time, multi-engine time, and instrument ratings restricting those ? All a bit outside my area of reference, but interesting. Cheers.
Silly Old Git
Those three particular QF cadets had just had two years of the hard yards with Talair
You could have put any one of them straight in the left seat of a DC3
I believe they had a DC3 endorsement from QF?
QF cadets turned up everywhere I turned for years, even at East Midlands flying for British Midland on the 707 in 1979.
You could have put any one of them straight in the left seat of a DC3
I believe they had a DC3 endorsement from QF?
QF cadets turned up everywhere I turned for years, even at East Midlands flying for British Midland on the 707 in 1979.
I'm sure P2-ROG belonged to Roger Real. I have a feeling it was shipped into PNG and Unreal Roger did a lot of work on it in the Talair hangar in Goroka? Long time ago now......
John Manley bought a C185 from TAL. I seem to recall the price was around $12,500.
John Manley bought a C185 from TAL. I seem to recall the price was around $12,500.
C-180/185
P2-ROG was a long-term PNG aircraft; ex-P2-DWB with Divine Word Airways. As I recall, RR bought it about early 80's, and eventually took it to Cairns when he went "finis" in the mid-80's.
It then went back to PNG and belonged to an engineer/missionary at Kaupena, but have no idea of its current status or whereabouts.
Torres......you are confusing John Manley with Mark Shanley, who bought (I think) P2-CMS.
It then went back to PNG and belonged to an engineer/missionary at Kaupena, but have no idea of its current status or whereabouts.
Torres......you are confusing John Manley with Mark Shanley, who bought (I think) P2-CMS.
Torres......you are confusing John Manley with Mark Shanley, who bought (I think) P2-CMS.
I think we sold two or three C185s, all priced between $9,500 and $12,500 - cheap by today's prices! I don't remember now who bought them. Only P2-SEP remained which, at that time, Junior wanted to stick on a pole in the Goroka Terminal Car Park!
ROG
I saw P2 ROG only once in PNG. She turned up in Moresby in about 93 flown by the engineer/missionary from Kaupena refered to earlier. I think he was german maybe a Lutheran. It was then a greeny sort of Blue and in very good order. Soon after it turned up in NZ and has been ZK KRM ever since. Mostly around Ardmore I believe.
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The "Eddie Foe Mat"
There's been a nice ending to the "Eddie Foe Mat" story, which Sharpie posted here a couple of months back. He also initiated a search for Eddie through PX Ops. Control. It took a little while but Eddie was eventually found safe and well, and responded to myself via general email through PX Ops. More recently I have now heard direct from Eddie, and he advises that after leaving in 2001 he is now back in the fold at PX Ops. Control, and very happy to be there. Eddie corrects one error in the "Eddie Foe Mat" story in that I misspelt his name as "Foi", so apologies Eddie, and that is now corrected. I'd like to think that Sharpie's posting the story, and the subsequent search for Eddie, had some part in his returning to employment at PX. It might even be that Eddie's intention all those years ago, that the "Eddie Foe Mat" might favourably influence our future lives, has at least partly been achieved. Or is that just an old Ops. bloke's mind wandering, and showing its age ?
Lae 1982 circa December
Going through my photo album
P2-COE throws a prop blade on its takeoff roll soon after a major overhaul.
Bronte Z. was the pilot. Being christmas the nose locker was full of SP cans, probably the first and last time a windscreen has been washed with beer.
At Talairs christmas drinks salvaged can bearing traces of hydraulic oils were in the Eskies..
P2-COE throws a prop blade on its takeoff roll soon after a major overhaul.
Bronte Z. was the pilot. Being christmas the nose locker was full of SP cans, probably the first and last time a windscreen has been washed with beer.
At Talairs christmas drinks salvaged can bearing traces of hydraulic oils were in the Eskies..
