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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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Last I heard of Bernie Flanagan was that he had a small acreage for horses at Dirranbandi, but he seems to have moved on.
The only clue that may help is that he has a LinkedIn profile here, from which you may be able to send him a message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernie-flanagan-32b8b172/
The only clue that may help is that he has a LinkedIn profile here, from which you may be able to send him a message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernie-flanagan-32b8b172/
BB-415 was P2-PNG when I flew I back in late 1981,and in those days a fine machine, sadly neglected these days rotting in the back of the Govt. Flying Unit hangar.
Terry Carter was B200 lead Captain. Amar Singh-Gill was the Gulfstream Captain,
Terry Carter was B200 lead Captain. Amar Singh-Gill was the Gulfstream Captain,
The next question.... Will he ever see the entitlements he is owed (?!). With over 40 years up he'd have to be owed a lot...
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Duck Pilot; Don't happen to know the reggo of what appears to be a very derelict Bongo Van, the nose of which is visible in your third photo?
There are 2 Bongos there, both ex Airlink. One is ALM, the other I’m not sure and there is also a derelict one left at Vanimo which I think was an old Airllink one as well. Different owners since Bubbles owned them though.
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Kagamuga; Those piccies are a bit depressing,but I guess that it was inevitable that the a/c depicted would wind up that way.
mendi63; Struth Mate, you couldn't do that! You'd probably disturb one of the airfield security bois sleeping in it!
P2-COC just needs a quick cut & polish
Poor old COC up...death by neglect in a 100 tropical seasons.
PNG witl be a grave yard of 'modern' aircraft, soon to outnumber WW2 relics in the country..
At least PYY is under cover in Oz.
Sad ending for the old dog.
PNG witl be a grave yard of 'modern' aircraft, soon to outnumber WW2 relics in the country..
At least PYY is under cover in Oz.
Sad ending for the old dog.
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Re the photos, can anyone advise the rego that is on the 185, and U206G P2-SDA was registered as P2-RNC, looks like never applied and Cessna 172 P2-SPF, the only record that I can find for SPF is a 182A back in 74/75, anyone know the origin of the 172. Unusual for a 152 to be there as well, any reason?
It's kinda sad that there are only an ever decreasing number of old timers that contribute to this thread. At the same time it's surprising that current pilots contribute little in the age of smart phones. Too busy on Facebook and Instagram?
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Certainly not an ‘old timer’ - was there from 1970-74 but had many adventures arriving as a 20 year old, including having the best ‘chief pilot’ in my ‘career’. Who can forget the variables of landing on a strip at dawn in the Morobe area, the smell of the cooking fires and the smoke they produced waffling along the strip, the headman presenting you with a sackfull of succulent oranges to landing at Tanga off New Ireland where the nuns would ply you with ‘Tang’ and a sack of lobsters...
The flying was great but the characters you worked with and the swashbucklers, Kiaps,plantation managers ex-‘Coast Watchers’ and others who had made PNG their home and sometimes their ‘hideaway’ made it a fascinating facet of my life which I have never forgotten. As I type this, visions of these people - most long gone, names that wouldn’t mean anything to most people now but all had the best interests of PNG at heart.
Memories indeed. Looking down at the clouds below at Yeva was surreal. Plate sized mud crabs at Kerema Market PGK1 each...they want FJD80 for a bundle of 6 small ones here. Empty fuel drums making alarming sounds as they expand in the back of the balus. Flying from Vanimo to Jayapura...two worlds apart... you could almost see a line in the landscape where PNG ended and Indonesia started. Planet Rock and Round house night clubs...the intoxicating smell of coconut oil and BO
I boast a late ‘coffin charter’ take off from Port Moresby to Tapini due to wailing grievers. I had to climb a little higher than normal due WX and the hermetically sealed coffin burst. BUMPF. Fun times. At least in the Islander one could cup ones hand out of the DV window and suck in the fresh air. I never got to the bottom of whether one should include the corpse as part of the POB as it would be dreadful if the rescuers would find the total number of flight planned POB including the stiff that was thrown clear and leave an incapacitated survivor unseen atop the jungle canopy. Anyway, I made an ’Circuit area call then an Ops. Normal by so-and-so’ and got back to the aircraft in time after landing and running away. Phew, the smell.
Was there 81 to the end of 88, not sure if those dates make me an old timer but I certainly recall these regos. My time was spent with Wirui Air Services, Central Air Services,CoAir and Talair.......All great memories. Sad pics of these great workhorses. The Pics of COC reminded me of a couple of Aztecs I flew SDM and EAC.
