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Old 20th Jan 2009, 00:11
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Sundaun yes......

Why does Golf Oscar Rankin spring to mind?
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Old 20th Jan 2009, 10:46
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Cassius.

Yeah! I think that he got that nickname after giving his girlfriend a straight right to the jaw! leaving her lying in a Lae gutter.Tru tok?
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Old 21st Jan 2009, 12:39
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Pngdf C-47

Thanks for the responses to my request. I finally amassed enough pictures to enable me to produce the required "decals". I finished 2 models one in 1/72 and the other in 1/48 scales. Both have minor errors which I will correct eventually, herewith some pics:
in 1/48



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Old 21st Jan 2009, 22:06
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Sixtiesrelic is that a c207 behind the DC3?
Who operated 207s in PNG and where from?
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Old 21st Jan 2009, 22:10
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Gee up

Ask Tinpis re C207s, they aged him prematurely!!!
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Old 21st Jan 2009, 22:37
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That one looks like a Talair paint job.
There were a few C207s in PNG. I think one crashed at Goroka in the late seventies belonging to the SDA church ...
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I have 207 time and PNG time but hats off to anyone who has 207 time in PNG.. thats awesome
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Old 21st Jan 2009, 23:10
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Here ya go Geeup.


This is one of my cousin's collection.

Any of you old reprobates who were risking your life in them hills from 1935 to 1977 might like to PM me if you would like a copy of our DVDs of our uncle's 1935 to 1942 B&W photos (35 pictures) and colour 16mm movies of Guinea Airways, my father's B&W photos of Guinea Airways 1940 to 1942 (about 30), Hundreds of mine from Ansett PNG days in 1970 to 1973 and my cousin's 1975to 1977. Mostly life in camps and aircraft during the change over of colour schemes.
My cousin rescued our uncle's photos from the big heap to be set on fire, when our grand father died and disgruntled sons were sorting the massive lot of junk.
He was about ten and copped an earfull from his father and uncles when they caught him ratting about in the pile.
Dissobedient boy kept rummaging and stashed them in a gap in the fence for later.
The movies are pretty grainy because they're copied from a VHS tape (Lousy resolution) the originals are in the Commonwealth film archives awaiting digital copying.
He took lots of 2 to 20 second clips that I have strung together into some sort of sense. The movie of "A flight from Wau to Moresby" could be a collection of half a dozen flights over the two years bunged into the clip... you'll see a Junker wing in one shot and a Ford wing in the next if you look carefully. I made the sequences for his daughters who were born in Wau but have never been to PNG after they were evacuated.
My father's are a mix of pre-war life of newly weds and aircraft photos.
People tell me now, they're glad I didn't "put that bloody camera away" as they were always commanding. Mine are things I snapped at everywhere I went.
Cost ya the postage and the price of the disks and covers.
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 01:35
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VH-GKT TURBO 207 Mendi 1971 .Original TAL colours
What a shocker, the bloody thing would suddenly go silent on you in the crz (something that is an attention getter in PNG ) surge, fart and keep running.
Thing finally quit for good somewhere near Mendi ? I believe the prop is hanging in the Clive Klab at Mendi?
There was another based in Vanimo (EGR?) that was superbly plunked in a river somewhere by (Waddles?) after it stopped.

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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 05:04
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Talair 207's

Talair had 3 x 207's in my time (SEB, SEC & SED). I flew SEB & SED, and scared myself witless at Oksapmin in one (can't remember which). Never flew SEC, but believe it was the best of the three.

The prop off GKT did (in my time at least) hang in the Clive Steele club in Mendi. Gus Vanscolina had an engine failure in the Hum Gap in it.
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 05:18
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the dreaded 207

One of the very few selection errors made by RDB. a reasonable operator for coastal strips but certainly lacked performance in the highlands.

All my records are a few thou miles away, so I can not confirm , but did not Tal lose another(maybe not lost, maybe recovered and repaired) just north of Mendi, flown by the bag-snatcher Maurie???. could not outclimb terrain and plonked it into the kunai?
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 09:43
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Ah, Maurie Lean RIP, I dont recall that one?
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 11:58
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Crowleys/Panga had a 207 P2-DMS working the Huon pennisular hills out of Lae in the mid 70's - much hated by the crew there.

As said, okay from sea level strips but ground hugging in the hot and high.

I had it briefly in Hoskins but refused to do the Bali/Witu sectors! Perhaps that's why they took it back........

A 207 by that rego was in Tasmania in the 80's so perhaps it did survive the PNG experience.
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 18:27
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You may be thinking of D--e (Gumis) Morr-s C185 accident a mile or so nth of Mendi. Don't think Maurie ever flew, went South to Newcastle and bought a concrete agitator truck. George Leahy was running a C207 based Hagen a few months back!
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 22:48
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I may have even had a hand in naming him "Gumis"
Certainly there when it was thunk up.
Went on to an illustrious career in ATC after the 185?
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Old 22nd Jan 2009, 23:01
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I have a feeling that EGR and one of the SE..s ended up in the Fifilippinas?
Torres may know..
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Old 23rd Jan 2009, 00:25
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Hey, any of you guys want the two stories Tri pela liklik pik and liklik redpela hat with English and Tok Pisin translations, drop me a PM.
I found the CD's I had and hadf a couple of copies that were supposed to go to someone that never left here for some reason.
My kids learned Tok pisin with them.
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Old 23rd Jan 2009, 01:20
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Exclamation

From today's Post Guria.......

Cow on runway

By PORENI UMAU

A STRAY cow wandering on the runway at Nadzab airport in Morobe Province forced an Air Niugini Fokker 100 flight to pull out of a landing
attempt, it was revealed yesterday.
According to reports, the Air Niugini flight into Nadzab at 8 on Wednesday night, carrying 80 passengers including Morobe Governor Luther
Wenge and Menyamya MP Benjamin Philip, had to abort landing on the runway as the pilot feared hitting the cow.
Mr Wenge spoke about the incident, which was also confirmed by his protocol officer Roy Miringke last night.
They said it was getting dark but everyone in the plane felt it was fortunate that the pilot of the jet plane had seen the cow and aborted
landing at the last minute, although it had already committed his plane to land.
The Nadzab airport is on the Markham plains and is surrounded by ranches that hold hundreds of cows and horses.
Mr Wenge complained that such stray animals wandering on the airport runway at any time was a “risky business” for the Civil Aviation
Authority (CAA), Air Niugini and any other airlines using the Nadzab airport.
“Had the pilot not seen the cow, there would have been a crash which could have resulted in the death of about 80 people on that flight,” Mr
Wenge said.
He challenged the CAA at Nadzab to build proper fencing around the airport premises to prevent stray animals getting onto the runway.
Mr Miringke said the plane had to abort landing and took off into the air again and came back to land after 10 to 20 minutes of circling in
the air. PNG Airports Limited Operations manager Mark Sahin said he had not received any report of the incident but said there were local farmers who were not careful with their livestock and often let them roam near the airport grounds.
Mr Sahin said the airport had secure fences to prevent stray animals from getting onto the runway.
“To go into the runway, there are small fences in place so I do not think any stray animal could get in there,” he said.
He said the pilot had not reported the incident. PNG Airports Limited is a private company owned by CAA and manages the Nadzab airport. Air Niugini’s chief executive officer Wasantha Kumarasiri said last night he was not aware of the incident.
“It (report) should come into the system but I was not briefed by the management.
“Air Niugini faces many challenges and one of them is stray animals including dogs, cows, pigs and the management is aware of such risks,” Mr Kumarasiri said.
He said there should be a proper and secure fencing at all airports and appreciated the comment made by Governor Wenge.
“I am sure CAA would acknowledge this,” Mr Kumarasiri said. He immediately called for a report on the matter from his staff.
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Old 23rd Jan 2009, 01:49
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The fencing (or lack of it) applies to just about every airport in PNG.

I wrote at least a dozen audit reports last year that included findings regarding fencing/tarmac/runway security.

Wasi can't say he didn't know.

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Old 23rd Jan 2009, 05:59
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I'm glad there was always someone entertaining to get on the piss with in my time up there
Career? Yer kidding, WTF was that?
Woulda left otherwise.
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