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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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Descol,
Nice shot of the Bee Hives and the other of town. I understand its all changed since the big Guria. I was talking to a certain Conquest pilot the other day who was there during the eruption. It must have been scary!!! More pictures please?
Groggy
Nice shot of the Bee Hives and the other of town. I understand its all changed since the big Guria. I was talking to a certain Conquest pilot the other day who was there during the eruption. It must have been scary!!! More pictures please?
Groggy
Went thru Rabaul on a cruise in 2012 and the place looks nothing like the beautiful old town of taim bipoa.
Roads in parlous condition - took hours to get out to Bitapaka Cemetary - blewout tyre coming back. Rabaul and Kokopo towns looks like rubbish dumps - no more trees, rough old buildings, mess everywhere.
If you remember Rabaul as it was - be prepared for a disappointment if you visit now
happy days,
Roads in parlous condition - took hours to get out to Bitapaka Cemetary - blewout tyre coming back. Rabaul and Kokopo towns looks like rubbish dumps - no more trees, rough old buildings, mess everywhere.
If you remember Rabaul as it was - be prepared for a disappointment if you visit now
happy days,
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Bush flying in west Irian
Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua on Vimeo
Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua (Pt 2) on Vimeo
Here are some cool videos of Bushflying in West Irian with the mighty Porter
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Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua (Pt 2) on Vimeo
Here are some cool videos of Bushflying in West Irian with the mighty Porter
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Vale Captain James Keith Perry
Jim passed away quietly last Sun. evening.
His furneral is planned for Thu. 13, June.
He was a Senior Check Capt. with Ansett APNG, F-27 & DC-3,then an F-27 Capt. with Ansett in Bris.
He was a great guy to fly with.
RIP
Angry Ant
His furneral is planned for Thu. 13, June.
He was a Senior Check Capt. with Ansett APNG, F-27 & DC-3,then an F-27 Capt. with Ansett in Bris.
He was a great guy to fly with.
RIP
Angry Ant
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Jim Perry gone. That is sad. So many of the pilots that literally built PNG are now gone........
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The Angry Ant and I visited him a couple of years ago and he cooked cornedbeef for our lunch. We were going to take him out for a counter lunch, but he had other plans.
I only flew with him twice in the Three and both times were a ball of fun.
I was his safety FO when he did his first flight in the Mouse, when he started in Brisbane.
What a turn about aviation can be.
I asked him about the dreaded little black book he used to write things in, when flying in PNG.
Told him how we all thought he was noting our sins and omissions down. He said, "Nothing of the sort. I have a lousy memory and thought that's interesting I better write it down or I'll forget it".
I used the little black book trick in my turn and had the FO's worrying for a time, then I added a green book which had 'em really wondering, till the first game bloke asked what it was about.
"Black book is things I need to check up, green book is things I liked and want to remember".
There were other positive things Jim did that I emulated.
Great little bloke.
I only flew with him twice in the Three and both times were a ball of fun.
I was his safety FO when he did his first flight in the Mouse, when he started in Brisbane.
What a turn about aviation can be.
I asked him about the dreaded little black book he used to write things in, when flying in PNG.
Told him how we all thought he was noting our sins and omissions down. He said, "Nothing of the sort. I have a lousy memory and thought that's interesting I better write it down or I'll forget it".
I used the little black book trick in my turn and had the FO's worrying for a time, then I added a green book which had 'em really wondering, till the first game bloke asked what it was about.
"Black book is things I need to check up, green book is things I liked and want to remember".
There were other positive things Jim did that I emulated.
Great little bloke.
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Had an inquiry. Any one remember the details of the accident in which pilot Bob Davie was killed, maybe around 1984 or 1985?
I have a vague recollection he may have been flying the Bandit P2-RDS that pranged in the Goroka Valley 14 April 1992?
I have a vague recollection he may have been flying the Bandit P2-RDS that pranged in the Goroka Valley 14 April 1992?
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No... not P2-RDS I worked for Talair in Goroka from 1991 til Oct 1993. I knew Bob in New Zealand...he was a flight instructor at the Wellington Aero club years before, and I meet him in Masterton when he did some part time instructing.....a very nice guy and going to PNG was not kind to Bob he lost his Girl friend after she was hit by a propeller of a BN2 he was about to fly....and a few months later he got caught in a dead end valley in another BN2 and while trying to turn back his BN2 hit the hillside with the loss of Bob and his passengers...not sure of the date of this accident but it must have been before 1985 as that is when I left Masterton to go to Nelson.
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Thanks......
That was in Mt Hagen, aircraft departing to search for a missing Baron.
It all comes back to me now.
....he lost his Girl friend after she was hit by a propeller of a BN2....
It all comes back to me now.
Bob was killed in an Islander in January '84 near Omkalai (it was either ISG or ISH, I can't recall which).
It was not his girlfriend that walked into the propellor, but was Kerrie Foley, sister of one of Bob's good mates (Chris Foley, also now deceased), who was sitting in the RHS of the Islander when the accident occurred at Hagen. 20th July 1980, P2-ISF.
Tragedy was that they were about to launch and participate in the search for another Talair aircraft, Baron P2-GKN, which had pranged in the Tari Gap the previous day with the loss of all on board.
It was not his girlfriend that walked into the propellor, but was Kerrie Foley, sister of one of Bob's good mates (Chris Foley, also now deceased), who was sitting in the RHS of the Islander when the accident occurred at Hagen. 20th July 1980, P2-ISF.
Tragedy was that they were about to launch and participate in the search for another Talair aircraft, Baron P2-GKN, which had pranged in the Tari Gap the previous day with the loss of all on board.
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Capt. Bob Davies
My log book entry for "Fri.13TH" JAN 1984 states:"_ _ _ ISH lost,my very good friend Capt Bob Davies". I recall Bob was called in (he was based MD) to cover the CHM pilot who was crook.He had to do the 10:30 Simbu Prov. Govt chrtr to Bomai-Karimui.He turned right one valley too early,stalled in the turn(10 POB didn't help),fate is the hunter.I'm a bit vague,but seem to recall he was celebrating his birthday the night before,sad if true.Bob was a quietly spoken Gentleman.