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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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Airstrips TPNG
The next round: where is this view? Sorry, that the picture is a bit blurry and someone is standing with his head in front of the reg. But maybe one of the Talair pilots knows this Bongo so well, that he will recognize it. Maybe someone will even recognize the pilot (or himself 
)Taken 1987. SP
)Taken 1987. SP
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Silly Old Git
Got caught bad at Marawaka. 
Circling under cloud REAL close to a ridge trying to peek over into the Marawaka valley, I found myself boxed in trapped and committed to the gap
Hurtling down the slope in the rain and in the treetops I thought I was buggered, when I saw the end of the strip. The wrong end mind, but it will do so I plonk the old 185 in downhill and arrive at the departure end. Five minutes for knees to stop chattering and taxi back to the park bay where the Kiap is waiting in the rain
"Where the bloody hell did you come from, we weren't expecting them to send a plane this morning because of the weather?"
Circling under cloud REAL close to a ridge trying to peek over into the Marawaka valley, I found myself boxed in trapped and committed to the gap
Hurtling down the slope in the rain and in the treetops I thought I was buggered, when I saw the end of the strip. The wrong end mind, but it will do so I plonk the old 185 in downhill and arrive at the departure end. Five minutes for knees to stop chattering and taxi back to the park bay where the Kiap is waiting in the rain
"Where the bloody hell did you come from, we weren't expecting them to send a plane this morning because of the weather?"
Silly Old Git
The Bongo from Wamina. i believe the damage was done when the Chook crew dropped it 
Count Oberst Hellyadore von Tshushinigg walking away from the tail "WHO VILL PAY FOR ZISS?"
Count Oberst Hellyadore von Tshushinigg walking away from the tail "WHO VILL PAY FOR ZISS?"
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Okay, I'll have another go - Finshchafen?
Bit more overgrown and neglected in the more recent times when I have visited these spots. Marawaka and other such strips look like flaming bowling greens compared to the state they are in now...
Bit more overgrown and neglected in the more recent times when I have visited these spots. Marawaka and other such strips look like flaming bowling greens compared to the state they are in now...
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Count Oberst Hellyadore von Tshushinigg
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Okay, I'll have another go - Finshchafen?
The next one will be a bit harder I think
Runway length 750 ft, Alt. 5000ft
Again thanks to the former mission pilot for this picture.
SP
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Silly Old Git
Got any old shots of commercial strips there Stroch?
Them GB strips are all the same, just long enough to get in a couple of rattles of the Rosary beads before take off.
Them GB strips are all the same, just long enough to get in a couple of rattles of the Rosary beads before take off.
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Got any old shots of commercial strips there
But a quick look brought up this:
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Em Madang ya. Runway 07. Had to do 2 x missed approaches there one dark and stormy night trying to get an F28 on the ground, but at least the fruit bats weren't out and about.
Silly Old Git
At the holding RWY 07 Madang in 1972
Suddenly, the tower goes nuts "All aircraft in the Madang area we are experiencing a severe earthquake, communications maybe interrupted !"
I look down the runway and ****e, its waving like surf and old CMW is rocking from side to side
Ask the tower for TO and refused. I ask again and say "I'd rather watch it all from 500' up actually ta"
The long grass on approach was waving like buggery by now, the man in the old fibro tower must have had thoughts about getting out
It obviously stopped and and things got back to normal, just another Madang guria
Madang tower, FS. Met and general hide out for various alcoholics 1970
Suddenly, the tower goes nuts "All aircraft in the Madang area we are experiencing a severe earthquake, communications maybe interrupted !"
I look down the runway and ****e, its waving like surf and old CMW is rocking from side to side
Ask the tower for TO and refused. I ask again and say "I'd rather watch it all from 500' up actually ta"
The long grass on approach was waving like buggery by now, the man in the old fibro tower must have had thoughts about getting out
It obviously stopped and and things got back to normal, just another Madang guria
Madang tower, FS. Met and general hide out for various alcoholics 1970
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