The Home of Photos in Dunnunda! Mk I

[Jabawocky]

Any chance its in Alaska?

[By George]

Looks like Lake Hood, Anchorage.

[Jober.as.a.Sudge]

as you were boys

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Yes, it is Lake Hood, in Anchorage, Alaska. Will try to get some aerial shots - if it ever fines up! Hoping to get some Beaver () tomorrow.

Not a single V-tail to be seen anywhere! What do they use to kill Doctors up here? Fat-tyred Super Cubs!

Pretty amazing place! Ted Stevens International Airport, Lake Hood Floatplane base and the adjacent GA "bush" strip - all controlled by the one tower. Hard to imagine that happening in Oz.

Dr

[By George]

The Aviation Heritage Museum is worth a visit and some very rare aircraft around the place including the fuselage of a Sikorsky Clipper. A Grumman Duck, Goose and Widgeon were in the hangar. Helio Couriers on floats behind the 'K2' Aviation building and even a GA-8 Airvan or two lurking about (on wheels like sensible aeroplanes).

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

VFR - Alaskan style!
Clear of cloud and in sight of ......... other cloud, with enough visibility to see .....more cloud!



...followed by a bit of waterskiing!
YouTube - Kichatna R

My ride!

Back in civilization!


You get the feeling "Chuck" has done this a few times before!

Dr

[asw28-866]

Need some floats out here...

Lake Eyre continues to amaze this year even after 5 trips.



and of course the channel country that feeds it through Cooper Creek



Apologies for the quality I am a c**p photographer, it looks heaps better n real life!

'866'

[Alistair]

Early Turbo Porter Promo

A quick reference to floats in here (for continuity of Forkies theme)



I want one!

Anyone got any experience of operating one in Aus (besides the army) and would like to share. I've been in an ex-army one (VH-REL) years ago and it would be great to get one back in Aus dropping jumpers. I'm guessing the numbers probably don't compare to the PAC 750XL/C208 though.

Hmmm...it's not showing up when embedded...here's the link

Fixed - just put what comes after the = sign between the youtube brackets.

Much Ado

[nig&nog]

Got taught by the great BD of Nagambie fame how to fly MKT. Just had to remember to make sure the trim was set and stowed otherwise it could practically kill you by being out of trim and not enough flight control to recover or when it popped out and spun around, the handle could knock you out cold. Also quite exciting if you forgot to lock the tailwheel trying to stay straight. It was a true aircraft in the sense that you could load it up and as long as you could close the door it would fly. But otherwise an awesome machine which I would love to try with a bigger donk than the 500 shp dash 20 I think it was that it had.

Nog

[kingRB]

MKT used to live at Lower Light before then... Apparently its over in Europe now.. Austria or France? And it did get a bigger Dash number, and a 4 bladed prop... If only it was still around

[rioncentu]

More Oshkosh Plane Porn

Worth a watch. if you have 5 minutes to spare.

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[Alistair]

Nice pictures of MKT!

These are the Porters that I could find that made it onto the Australian civillian register. Plenty of others were with the Army including the pink porter from the Dropzone movie in the 90's (s/n 684).

VH-MKT PC-6 History s/n 689 Flying as F-GKIA in Austria

VH-REL PC-6 History s/n 693 Flying as ZK-JMP at Mercer NZ with a -34!

VH-ZCZ PC-6 History s/n 731 Flying as D-FREE with pullout skydive (Italy?)

VH-PNG PC-6 History s/n 584 Flying as F-GIDS in Cahor

VH-PNH PC-6 History s/n 615 Written Off Kanabea PNG

VH-FSB PC-6 History s/n 628 Damaged beyond repair at Mawson Base, Antartica

VH-FZB PC-6 History s/n 634 Flying as D-FSCB

VH-OWB PC-6 History s/n 652 Display in flying condition at Museum of Australian Army Flying

VH-SMA PC-6 History s/n 656 Flying as F-GFDC (Flew for the Snowy Mountain Authority in Aus)

VH-SMB PC-6 History s/n 657 Written off at Polo Flat NSW 1976

VH-UIC PC-6 History s/n 657 Damaged and used as spares by Talair PNG

ps. edit to say thanks Much Ado

[nig&nog]

Can the boys from across the ditch upload a couple of porter shots from Mount Cook Airlines. Thats where I saw my first porter and thought they all had skis as a young lad.

Nog

[frigatebird]

Long thin aircraft on long thin routes.. Sept '81



one way..



and the other..

[Section28- BE]

Frigate- 'Torres' will know as fact-

But, as I've been 'told'- 'I reckon', Br'y'an Gr'e'y may have bought that 'said' machine- with those 'F@@rkin Garrett's'.................

Rgds
S28- BE

Edit- Yeah- that one, ta

[Capt Fathom]

Would that be Brian Gray, or Bryan Grey?

[Stationair8]

Look a Metro with a galley, almost as handy as an ashtray on a motor-bike or an ass pocket in a singlet!

[Animalclub]

I sold that machine to a guy in Fresno. Dennis said that I had to sell it!! Bryan Smith flew it over to the US.

[AussieO2]

Then it went to germany as D-IESS

[frigatebird]

Must try and track the history of it over the last 20 or so, years, and if it is still going. Was our first turbine (and mine too). Delivered new mid November '80. Serial # TC 338. Don't have a note in the diary on the exact date, but see that I had an engine failure in an Islander after departing Ballalae over the border while going to Kieta on the 10th Nov. and landed there on one, picked it up on the 12th. and flew it for the next 3 days, then later did training circuits and a flight to Auki in the Metro on the 19th Nov., and a service to Kieta ICUS the next day. One of the few new ones flown - have put time on high time frames mostly - so the new Islander in Queensland previously, and the the two new ATR's S#'s 0109 and 0113 later, were all good equipment at the time..

Taxying in on the delivery - mid Nov.'80


The delivery pilot, Neil, brought his family for a holiday while he continued working checking us onto the type.



Air Pacific BAC 111 & Solair Metro transferring passengers to and from Kieta at Honiara