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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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Storchpilot
I thought it was one of the bips i.e. Olsobip or Golgobit. One of them has a road at the end just as in your photograph.
tinpis
Had dinner with Cam Bennett (owned the Bird at one stage) last week in Stanthorpe. He's re-married and found a new vocation.
The other place is not Kiunga Animalclub, sorry, try again
tinpis
Had dinner with Cam Bennett (owned the Bird at one stage) last week in Stanthorpe. He's re-married and found a new vocation.
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Tinpis, my flabber is well and truly gasted!! I have never seen that picture before and I had forgotten that I was once that young!
Yes- that's me putting the giggle juice into the C206!
I forget which aircraft were painted which colours, but I think that was probably AMS? It definitely wasn't ELG, as that was painted red, but it might have been the Evangelical Flying Object, although I seem to recall that one was a dark blue rather than dark green. Whichever one it was, I remember saying to someone that with that colouring it would be a real bitch to spot it in the green jungle if it ever went down.......
Yes- that's me putting the giggle juice into the C206!
I forget which aircraft were painted which colours, but I think that was probably AMS? It definitely wasn't ELG, as that was painted red, but it might have been the Evangelical Flying Object, although I seem to recall that one was a dark blue rather than dark green. Whichever one it was, I remember saying to someone that with that colouring it would be a real bitch to spot it in the green jungle if it ever went down.......
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Lapun Tru
ELG was red with a bit of white, similar to AMF on my earlier picture (as far as I can remember
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The top of the nosecowl and the upper part of the fuselage on AMS was red, the lower part was green. Even we kids thought it was a stupid paint scheme for an aircraft flying over dense jungle, that could even swallow up B17īs during the war without leaving a trace. When AMS did go down it burnt out.
The evangelical flying object was painted dark blue with a white stripe running in between. So I reckon the one on the pic is EFO, which went down in Lae 1974.
SP
ELG was red with a bit of white, similar to AMF on my earlier picture (as far as I can remember
). The top of the nosecowl and the upper part of the fuselage on AMS was red, the lower part was green. Even we kids thought it was a stupid paint scheme for an aircraft flying over dense jungle, that could even swallow up B17īs during the war without leaving a trace. When AMS did go down it burnt out.
The evangelical flying object was painted dark blue with a white stripe running in between. So I reckon the one on the pic is EFO, which went down in Lae 1974.
SP
Silly Old Git
Weather losses in PNG are not new
American Aircraft Losses April 16, 1944 'Black Sunday'
Anyone remember Saidor? You had to taxi across a bridge over a huge culvert to get to the parking bay.
Yep, somebody in a TAL 185 forgot about the bridge
American Aircraft Losses April 16, 1944 'Black Sunday'
Anyone remember Saidor? You had to taxi across a bridge over a huge culvert to get to the parking bay.
Yep, somebody in a TAL 185 forgot about the bridge
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That was an interesting bit of PNG aviation history, thanks Tinpis. A bit like all the young lads dying from malaria and all the other tropical diseases during WW2 in PNG, it seems the environment was worse then the enemy both for pilots and soldiers. I sure learnt that when I did Kokoda in 2004, damn near killed me!!
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MAF Twotters and Cessna 206's
Thanks for the info on the Twotters, how about the following Cessna 206's, fate required:-all listed as 'unknown' in my records
P2-MFB, #U20603306
P2-MFD, #U20601525
P2-MFJ, #U20602447
P2-MFL, #U20601512
P2-MFQ, #U20601090
P2-MFS, #U20606778
P2-MFT, #U20601090, ..anyone with any MAF stories ?
P2-MFB, #U20603306
P2-MFD, #U20601525
P2-MFJ, #U20602447
P2-MFL, #U20601512
P2-MFQ, #U20601090
P2-MFS, #U20606778
P2-MFT, #U20601090, ..anyone with any MAF stories ?
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Liklik balus
Here are some pics for you, supplied by a former mission pilot, whom I would like to thank for them. I reckon you will know where it is. At least you have flown into it. The aircraft on the picture is VH-AMF
SP
Here are some pics for you, supplied by a former mission pilot, whom I would like to thank for them. I reckon you will know where it is. At least you have flown into it. The aircraft on the picture is VH-AMF
SP
Storchy,
Tenk yu tu mas long dispela picksa long ples balus Wonenara.
Bring back the good ole days...some of those mountains are pretty tough to walk over methinks you balus drivers had the easy option.
Apinun tru.
Tenk yu tu mas long dispela picksa long ples balus Wonenara.
Bring back the good ole days...some of those mountains are pretty tough to walk over methinks you balus drivers had the easy option.
Apinun tru.
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VH-AMF still going, however was damaged by fire at Rocky on 02.01.1987, with loss of life to apprentice, was stored for a few years, then rebuilt and re-registered in 1992
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VH-AMF
www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=VH-AMF
Thanks for the information Aussie. I had read about that accident, but had not really related it to that specific aircraft. The first pics I have of it are from 1966 at Goroka, when it started work for the lutheran mission as the first 206, and some from 1969 during an airdrop, which were posted here earlier.
Does anyone have a better recent picture than the one in the link?
Liklik balus, mi amamas tru yu laikim dispela piksa.
SP
Thanks for the information Aussie. I had read about that accident, but had not really related it to that specific aircraft. The first pics I have of it are from 1966 at Goroka, when it started work for the lutheran mission as the first 206, and some from 1969 during an airdrop, which were posted here earlier. Does anyone have a better recent picture than the one in the link?
Liklik balus, mi amamas tru yu laikim dispela piksa.
SP
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Grandpa Aerotart
Wow great pics - Kundiawa certainly looked different when I was based there nearly 30 years later - I have never seen a pic showing the old Kundiawa strip (although I knew where it had been) and seems like they are just building the strip as I knew it.
Great pic of Omkalai!!
MORE PLEASE!!!
Great pic of Omkalai!!
MORE PLEASE!!!
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Wow, that picture of Kundiawa is great, I was based there flying a bongo (IST) in 1980, and loved every minute of it. Good to see a grass photo of the place.
More from your archives please Storch!
More from your archives please Storch!