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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
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Brisbane
Age: 72
Posts: 11
Graham really has an outstanding collection of photos - and experiences. He is certainly one of the legends.
Aussie02
You could well be absolutely right about the Nadzab Nomad prang date. I just had a look at my logbook and see I last flew 012 at the end of September 78. Broke my leg trail bike riding near Boana the next week. Spent the next 8 weeks in plaster and crutches running the Squadron while the RAAF OC (mixed Army/RAAF personel) was in Melbourne getting the radar put in one of the other Nomads.
I was in Hong Kong on the date you indicate so would not have been there for the flurry of excitement. I am sure that I would have noticed we were short an aircraft and there was one on stands in the hangar when I came back - I have absolutely no memory of it - I think I must be losing the plot!
Next 012 flight was when I took it for a test flight (post-repair check?) on 20 July 79
Thanks for the reminder.
Aussie02
You could well be absolutely right about the Nadzab Nomad prang date. I just had a look at my logbook and see I last flew 012 at the end of September 78. Broke my leg trail bike riding near Boana the next week. Spent the next 8 weeks in plaster and crutches running the Squadron while the RAAF OC (mixed Army/RAAF personel) was in Melbourne getting the radar put in one of the other Nomads.
I was in Hong Kong on the date you indicate so would not have been there for the flurry of excitement. I am sure that I would have noticed we were short an aircraft and there was one on stands in the hangar when I came back - I have absolutely no memory of it - I think I must be losing the plot!
Next 012 flight was when I took it for a test flight (post-repair check?) on 20 July 79
Thanks for the reminder.
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: GOLD COAST
Age: 78
Posts: 62
MAF FLIGHT TRAINING
Duck Pilot,
My man in Mt.Hagen tells me that MAF's flying school instructor, Rick Velvin, has gone south and MAF no longer provides flying training in PNG. It would appear that there are no flying schools operating anywhere in the country.
My man in Mt.Hagen tells me that MAF's flying school instructor, Rick Velvin, has gone south and MAF no longer provides flying training in PNG. It would appear that there are no flying schools operating anywhere in the country.
Big E
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: GOLD COAST
Age: 78
Posts: 62
Mt.Yule Cross. Post #3686.
There is another cross on Mt.Albert Edward, erected in the 1930's, by by the French missionaries from the Catholic Mission at Ononge. A Google search indicated that it was still there recently.
Man Bilong Balus long PNG
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: And once again, the fun and good times having come to an end for yet another year, back in the cold, cruel real world and continuing the seemingly never ending search for that bad bottle of Red
Age: 65
Posts: 2,562
pawsforeffect; I have copies of the words in both English and Tok Pisin somewhere.
PM me an snail mail addy and I'll post a photocopy....when I find them.
Also have a spare CD of the recording. Someone once asked me for a copy but never replied to any further PMs.
PM me an snail mail addy and I'll post a photocopy....when I find them.
Also have a spare CD of the recording. Someone once asked me for a copy but never replied to any further PMs.
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Aus
Posts: 706
Here is the recording http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200709/r184705_686227.mp3
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Herberton Qld Australia
Posts: 2
(Descoll, Chimbu Warrior: Page 184 of this thread) That is definitely Gordon Campbell, I worked for him for most of 1971 in his Narimo hotel at Vanimo
Last edited by sketch1946; 9th Jun 2016 at 08:20.
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Herberton Qld Australia
Posts: 2
(P2 WDL: Page 185 of this thread) Are you sure about the 1975 date? I worked for Gordon Campbell at the Narimo Hotel in 1970, and I thought then that his days of flying were in the past...
Last edited by sketch1946; 9th Jun 2016 at 08:17.
