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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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Vale Brian McCook
Bit late coming across this - about Brian. He was my mate and mentor in PNG in the early 70s and then for several years he and Betty were my next-door neighbors and beloved friends, they in 18, I in number 20 Hyde Park Gate at Seletar Air Base, in Singapore. Where Brian flew a PT-registered Goose for Conoco Indonesia. What a delightful, Good, man. Rest well Captain McCook! BA:.
If you want to read a few of Bryan's stories from his book 'Men and Metal Machines'
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-a...ml#post6503351
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-a...ml#post6503351
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Hi, I flew this for about 10 trips in early 1982 as P2 MHE, belonged to a coastal shipping company. I have a coup[le of good fotos.
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Where Brian flew a PT-registered Goose for Conoco Indonesia. What a delightful, Good, man. Rest well Captain McCook! BA:.
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Bob Bates B55
I have flown this Baron from Lae to Bensbach when I installed the home made NDB I built and designed about 1978!! It transmitted the letter s 3 times on 1655 khz. The only MF crystal i had!!! Worlked a charm for several years!
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skywagondriver:
Wasn't that the Airfast Aztec based at Rabaul?
I also spent many occasions in the Kavieng FSU building (the building in the background) whilst working for DCA in Rabaul in the early '70s
Wasn't that the Airfast Aztec based at Rabaul?
I also spent many occasions in the Kavieng FSU building (the building in the background) whilst working for DCA in Rabaul in the early '70s
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QSK
After Crowley's was bought by Airfast the fleet was promptly painted in the new yellow scheme. The one based in Rabaul [UNK] continued as a separate entity.
Crowley based an Aztec in Kavieng for a run down to Namatani then Rabaul on a daily basis plus any charter work.Pilots did a two week stint from Lae.
Crowley based an Aztec in Kavieng for a run down to Namatani then Rabaul on a daily basis plus any charter work.Pilots did a two week stint from Lae.
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CSF - Crowley C172 '72 ...Dunno where [didn't write on the back] but prob somewhere the POH said it was impossible to go 
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In 1962 I was taken by Ron Firns from Terapo to Kaipuri to pick up some Kukakuka to take them to prison farm. Kaipuri was an extreme strip with only Ron cleared to use it. Does anyone have knowledge of it.