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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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They remembered the one from late 1970 or early 71 Tinny. There was a great barat across the road to Huxleys pub that wasn't there before, the nearby bridge fel linto the creek and a number of houses fell onto the cars parked underneath.
I was in Kiriwina and reckoned I smelt sulphur at that time. Couldna could I?
I was in Kiriwina and reckoned I smelt sulphur at that time. Couldna could I?
Silly Old Git
I was there fer that one as well.
Nightime, got out of bed but couldnt get across the room. Dogs all going nuts and when it was over everyones water tank had buggered up remember?
I think some Tatas girls in town had damage to their flat the shopping centre was a mess
Nightime, got out of bed but couldnt get across the room. Dogs all going nuts and when it was over everyones water tank had buggered up remember?
I think some Tatas girls in town had damage to their flat the shopping centre was a mess
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Nightime, got out of bed but couldnt get across the room.
I think the one in 1972 was when Kar Kar Island erupted (?). I flew the DC and a couple of other bods out to the island in a Baron to take a look. What a sight! A brand new volcano in the middle of crater lake, spewing ash and lava and clouds of steam as the hot material hit the water. We did several orbits over it at a safe height and that's when I realised I'd forgotten my bloody camera....
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Lapun Tru, this one is for you. Remember the green painted 206.
Thanks also for the pic of Goroka on final - the Lutheran hangar where I was based is left mid field. Our house was near the hospital, somewhere near the end of the line of trees in the left middle of the pic.
As for the mission strip - that's a tricky one. Might be Tauta, between Dumpu and Madang and above Shaggy Ridge, but I'm not sure. (Tauta was the strip Ray Jensch speared in from).
Them GB strips are all the same, just long enough to get in a couple of rattles of the Rosary beads before take off.
) view of the Bena Gap, taken across the Goroka Valley from the top of Mt. Michael.
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Captain Nomad Storchpilot, not confident with this guess, but would that strip be Tawa?
no sorry Captain, this time you were wrong. The two last mission strip pictures are from Mindik.But Iīll give you another chance for revenge. This place I have never heard of before I found the picture in my dadīs slides. And I really donīt have a clue where it is, but the name is.......
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Mission Strip
Great !!! I found Derim on a map, so I now at least know where it is.Here is the next one. The original mission station was moved in the late 50īs or early 60īs to a different location, due to a major landside down Mt.............no, that would make it to easy
Silly Old Git
Nasty looking over shoot on the last bugger the last one. Thanks for sharing.
Didn't Laurie's 172 operate into Derim?
I'm pretty sure its the place I once took a double load of building material into with the Porter
Come to think of it.. a book could be written on the exploits of those two Porters alone
Didn't Laurie's 172 operate into Derim?
I'm pretty sure its the place I once took a double load of building material into with the Porter
Come to think of it.. a book could be written on the exploits of those two Porters alone
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VH-AMS registered 22.07.1969, to P2-AMS on 09.05.1974, crashed at Garaina, 31.07.1974. Think was owned by Lutheran Mission and flown by MAF crews, correct?