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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
[B]VH-UNC Beagle 206 Airfast Charter ex Helicopter Utilities[B]
I was Airfast's weekend Aztec driver at the time, and was hanging out for an endorsement on the big Pom tank. Luckily, I didn't get near it !!
The Beagle suffered a blown pot on the LH (?) engine on t/o from 32L at Jacksons in about late 1968 or early 1969. It went off the end and through the cattle yards on the DASF animal research station which used to be there..Moitaka??
I think it was written off? No injuries that I remember - just wounded egos. PIC was much older than myself...he also flew choppers, and I think served with the RAAF on Mustangs in Korea.
happy days,
I was Airfast's weekend Aztec driver at the time, and was hanging out for an endorsement on the big Pom tank. Luckily, I didn't get near it !!
The Beagle suffered a blown pot on the LH (?) engine on t/o from 32L at Jacksons in about late 1968 or early 1969. It went off the end and through the cattle yards on the DASF animal research station which used to be there..Moitaka??
I think it was written off? No injuries that I remember - just wounded egos. PIC was much older than myself...he also flew choppers, and I think served with the RAAF on Mustangs in Korea.
happy days,
tin,
dunno...but i wish i had kept some of the gold I was buying of the locals in Wau and Bulolo...
oh yeah...observing a local buying a small amount of mercury in a trade store in bulolo one day...
salesman...sori tru, nogat liklik sumting for dispela
local...emi orait... (as he holds out his hand!)
I guess it was like selling them petrol/kero in a plastic shopping bag...they would be happy until they got half way down the road and the bag would melt or leak.
dunno...but i wish i had kept some of the gold I was buying of the locals in Wau and Bulolo...
oh yeah...observing a local buying a small amount of mercury in a trade store in bulolo one day...
salesman...sori tru, nogat liklik sumting for dispela
local...emi orait... (as he holds out his hand!)
I guess it was like selling them petrol/kero in a plastic shopping bag...they would be happy until they got half way down the road and the bag would melt or leak.
Grandpa Aerotart
Ahhh for the good old days when 1PNGK = USD1.05.
What is the south pacific peso worth now to the Oz$?
Must admit that Oz fuel prices are llttle more than acedemic though....53 cents a liter here for premium
Having said that $1.53 for avgas a few days ago in Brissy hurt
What is the south pacific peso worth now to the Oz$?
Must admit that Oz fuel prices are llttle more than acedemic though....53 cents a liter here for premium
Having said that $1.53 for avgas a few days ago in Brissy hurt
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Aus$ 1.00 = NGK 2.39 or NGK 1.00 = Aus$ 0.42. When I left in 1985 NGK 1 was worth Aus$ 1.35.
I guess even an SP Brownie must now be around K8 to K10 at the Temple of Aeros?
30 years ago I could buy SP and San Mig/Swan at staff prices - $4.50 per slab!!! Now it costs that for one stubbie??
No doubt inflation has hit prices in "the world's oldest profession"? I guess K2 would not even get a look in at Six Mile or the old Lae Airstrip (not rthat I would know!!)
I guess even an SP Brownie must now be around K8 to K10 at the Temple of Aeros?
30 years ago I could buy SP and San Mig/Swan at staff prices - $4.50 per slab!!! Now it costs that for one stubbie??
No doubt inflation has hit prices in "the world's oldest profession"? I guess K2 would not even get a look in at Six Mile or the old Lae Airstrip (not rthat I would know!!)
Grandpa Aerotart
Yup....how many speedy car tracks have their very own landing strip adjacent 
Woomera I would suggest K2.00 wouldn't even by a stamp at the Lae Post Office these days...let alone a mouth to lick it
Woomera I would suggest K2.00 wouldn't even by a stamp at the Lae Post Office these days...let alone a mouth to lick it
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Nogot K2 meri's
As part of, one of the new boys initiation to Lae the other week after a night at the yachty, I told him I knew a girl that wanted to meet him and while getting him to wind his window down, abruptly stopped infront of a girl at the post office. Talk about quick hands, they were all over him before the car even stopped................thou past rumours suggest the car is well known in that part of town (could account for some of those mystery stains on the back seat)
Anyways she was wanting something crazy like K20-30. Long gone are those K2 days i'm affraid. Thank god an SP can still be got for K4 at the yachty.
Anyways she was wanting something crazy like K20-30. Long gone are those K2 days i'm affraid. Thank god an SP can still be got for K4 at the yachty.
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If you're really silly, you can pay much more than that in Moresby, Bus driver. Rates start around K50 in some places, but that's often just a bargaining ploy... or so I'm told, anyway!
Grandpa Aerotart
Would you like AIDS with that MastaAnyone tempted by the jungle bunnies should wear two condoms...with a liberal application of dencorub between....that way if either one breaks you'll know
