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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
Also taken 1975.
Richard Leahy owned C185 P2-MJL for around 30 years. It pranged a month or two back with the loss of six lives. Richard was the only survivor with serious injuries and burns and is still recovering in hospital in Brisbane. (The registration letters are his father's initials.)
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P2-MJL
Strange how circles close...
Thank you for the information Torres.
Actually Tailwheel mentioned the registration on the RL thread, but I didn´t even think of that specific aircraft when I found the picture in my dad´s archives.
SP
Thank you for the information Torres.
Actually Tailwheel mentioned the registration on the RL thread, but I didn´t even think of that specific aircraft when I found the picture in my dad´s archives.
SP
Grandpa Aerotart
And 'that view' + the subsequent pics is Aseki.
When I went poking around the B17 in the Black Cat Gap she was fairly well stripped but there was still ammo belt links and ammo scattered around - that was true of wandering around the abandoned wartime parts of Nadzab too.
Captain Nomad up near the top of the ranges between Salamaua and the Wau/Bulolo valley there is an old battlefield I once went to care of Ed and his PH Llama chopper. I think it had only VERY rarely been visited since the end of the war. You could still see the fighting pits/dugouts and boxes of old grenades etc laying about.
In 1989 I was Santa for the Wau Golf Club kiddies xmas party - I arrived in the PH Lama care of Ed having departed from the PH compound at the bottom of the strip - except Ed hit a power line on approach to the grass outside the clubhouse and landed with power line wrapped all around the chopper and some damage to rotors etc - blacked out the whole town for Xmas
When I went poking around the B17 in the Black Cat Gap she was fairly well stripped but there was still ammo belt links and ammo scattered around - that was true of wandering around the abandoned wartime parts of Nadzab too.
Captain Nomad up near the top of the ranges between Salamaua and the Wau/Bulolo valley there is an old battlefield I once went to care of Ed and his PH Llama chopper. I think it had only VERY rarely been visited since the end of the war. You could still see the fighting pits/dugouts and boxes of old grenades etc laying about.
In 1989 I was Santa for the Wau Golf Club kiddies xmas party - I arrived in the PH Lama care of Ed having departed from the PH compound at the bottom of the strip - except Ed hit a power line on approach to the grass outside the clubhouse and landed with power line wrapped all around the chopper and some damage to rotors etc - blacked out the whole town for Xmas
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Love the PNG war history. There are many secrets still in the jungle out there. I'm envious of those experiences Chimbu and Storchpilot! Fantastic photos of the B-17. Can you imagine a school excursion like that in this day and age in the Western world - never happen...
Glad your Xmas 1989 went off with a 'bang' - I guess not the type everyone was expecting...
I was wondering why Santa doesn't turn up in choppers anymore - he probably can't afford to change his pants all the time after experiences like that! 
Glad your Xmas 1989 went off with a 'bang' - I guess not the type everyone was expecting...
I was wondering why Santa doesn't turn up in choppers anymore - he probably can't afford to change his pants all the time after experiences like that!
Silly Old Git
Memory hazy, anyone got the story of the famous Ben Young go -around at Aseki ?(Aztruck)?
Lots of Aseki - Wau coffee shuttles in the Porter.
Many dead ancestors stuck in caves/tree/ledges off the end of the strip
Wasn't there a bakery on the strip?
Lots of Aseki - Wau coffee shuttles in the Porter.
Many dead ancestors stuck in caves/tree/ledges off the end of the strip
Wasn't there a bakery on the strip?
Silly Old Git
Many dead Asekians stuck in caves/tree/ledges off the end of the strip
Was it on the right after T/O or in caves in that lump of rock on the left there?
Grandpa Aerotart
On the left - maybe a nm along that ridge - more than once tried to shake them loose with sundry Islanders or Twin Otters - even tried two Islanders in close formation
Deliverance
It seems PH often used to deliver Santas in that area.
Bulolo Golf Club has a great 9th/18th hole with a very high tee dropping down on to the floor of a gully and then a challenging ascent to the green just off the club verandah.
I recall MS in a PH Hughes 500 with Santa aboard dropping down from the tee - roaring along the floor of the gully then screaming up to the green.
Didn't half scare the assembled throng!
BB
Bulolo Golf Club has a great 9th/18th hole with a very high tee dropping down on to the floor of a gully and then a challenging ascent to the green just off the club verandah.
I recall MS in a PH Hughes 500 with Santa aboard dropping down from the tee - roaring along the floor of the gully then screaming up to the green.
Didn't half scare the assembled throng!
BB
Enough of those highland strips..........here are a couple of coastal ones.
This one is easy, especially for the older hands.
This one a little bit harder. Only went there a couple of times myself.
This one is easy, especially for the older hands.
This one a little bit harder. Only went there a couple of times myself.
Grandpa Aerotart
Arawa?
The second - out in the Carterets - what was the name of the place with the plantation way, WAY out east from Rabaul? I think I only went there maybe twice myself.
The second - out in the Carterets - what was the name of the place with the plantation way, WAY out east from Rabaul? I think I only went there maybe twice myself.
Silly Old Git
Ahhh..... the lifestyle on the Island plantations.
Breakfast staff meetings on the balcony every morning with a fresh bottle of gin....
"I say, lusim laplap old girl..."
Breakfast staff meetings on the balcony every morning with a fresh bottle of gin....
"I say, lusim laplap old girl..."