Porter Nabire...
 

sixtiesrelic...
Great video...

The second generation is now flying there going into those strips in Papua...


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Nearly 42 years separate the 205 at Boana and his Porter at Hitadipa, Papua...

No kiap to organise the grass cutting or white cones...the 'last frontier' and he is loving it.

bob johns
 

Wan em Sumptin?ol pelamen na meri bilong Balus dai pinis o wanem?This thread has been dormant for too long anyone know where loopy is? what about John Reagan?Private pilots in country are Pain in the arse because one Het Kindam known to me didnt know the difference between Ihu and Ileg except on different side of the island ! Must of been my fault for inviting her to come up the hill for the sin sing! mi na save spak tumas tasol

bob johns
 

pisin bilong mi lik lik tasol ar phukit cant spel either

Mike Tse
 

Just been advised that Mike Tse of North Coast Aviation passed away at 2pm Monday 28 May 2012 in Madang. He had been sick for a while. RIP old friend.

Was Mike the one who was previously a long time Douglas man?

No. Talair Madang.

Just interested Gus, what was Avril Croft doing on board, she was a flight attendant with Pat Air and didn't fly on Stolair aircraft.? Further more, Avril's father was a quantity surveyor with the public works department, not a Chief Justice. You are correct about her sad demise though.

I also shared your experience at Kiunga and the Star Mountains it was quite a place.:ok:

Avril
 

I was going out with Avril at the time and invited her along. In 2000 I saw in my local paper that she was at Cronulla Marina having work done on her boat.So I went and visited her after 37 years.
Another story, STOL had a private strip at a village called maipa? that we called in, when lightly loaded, to pick up fruit and vegetables [3 pence a pound except betel nut 1 shilling a pound. Didn't do well as natives couldn't afford them at the Trade store at Lawes Road and expats didn't shop there.] On one occasion the 182 groaned and sat on its tail. I had the agent unload and reweigh the load 1,200 pounds not the 600 I expected.
I was doing multible airdrops from Tarpini to a village close by. Each load I allowed an extra bag of rice to make up for the fuel used. This was a bit to much, but I had no trouble till the last flight when the heavy owner of the trade store wanted to come. Instead of leaving the strip half way down the ski jump I ended up diving into the valley to get flying speed and had to find a place to do a circuit to gain enough height to cross the ridge.
New Guinea has changed, when I was the first aircraft into Baimuru in 8 weeks the tractor and trailer instead of taking me to the PO diverted into the town and had me waving to 3000+ smiling waving natives lining the streets.David's? wife had the kai boi make sweet and sour fish I supose Barra.

Anyone we know?

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IS he Sri Lankan? Looks a little like WK.

The Caribou was flown by a guy recently arrived in PNG (similar to civil pilots they were led gently into the various areas and of course the first was the milk run from Port Moresby to Lae to Wewak to Vanimo - come back the next day)

I was out of Port Moresby at first light that day and flew over the top of him around Bulolo. He asked about the weather and I told him it was bright blue sky all the way to Moresby on top. For some reason he chose to go under via the Kudgeru and got so far up the valley that his turning circle was greater than the valley width - result into the trees.

Three kids survived, 28 others, including the crew killed.

The long search had been called off when the aircraft could not be found but the 183 Squadron Army aircraft (2 Porters and 2 Bell 47 Sioux) were kept for another 2 days looking. We had the "assistance" of two RAAF Iroquois who arrived on site about 10.00 then left about 15.00 to stay in the air conditioned hotel in Lae. The rest of us including the civil pilots shared the floor of the rooms in the Wau hotel and flew from first to last light.

We were not happy about the coverage in the Kudgeru which everyone thought was the most likely spot so Terry Hayes took his Sioux out of his allotted area up the valley in a max effort hover down the creek line and saw a kid on the rocks waving.

He called me in the Porter and asked for the Iroquois which could hover at that altitude and had a winch cable. Unable to raise the RAAF I went to their area, found them both shut down in a village buying souvenirs! They eventually responded to my circling, went to the crash site and winched down rescuers. They brought the survivors back, one had died, loaded them in my Porter at Wau and I took them in the dark to the better hospital at Bulolo. Unfortunately another kid subsequently died.

The RAAF pilot got an AFC for doing what he did every day, lowering someone on a cable. Terry Hayes did not even get a mention in despatches.

I stumbled upon THIS - Wikipedia in Pigin! :eek:

it looks like Jackson's has had a bit of work done to it then? :}

Can't be Jaksons... too clean . No Buai stains on the tarmac.

G'day Gusatstol, where exactly was Maipa? My logbook shows several entries,(SBU,CMO,DJU), during 1967 where I called in there. Was it between Terapo, or Malalau, and Moresby. Maybe between Bereina and Terapo? Identifier was MPA?

Another strip we used, when Kerema was u/s, was Murua on the DASF station. Must have been 'drier' there?

happy days,

Emi no ples balus long PNG. Kapshun long piksa emi toktok:

i was taking the piss

I would never have guessed! Of course the photo looks very much like Jacksons and most people could be easily confused.

:}

Police in remote Papua New Guinea have arrested members of an alleged cannibal cult :ooh: accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises :yuk:, a report said Friday. The 29 people were part of a 1,000-strong group formed to combat errant sorcerers :D who The National newspaper said had begun charging exorbitant fees. The cost of a witch doctor revealing a cause of death or casting out an evil spirit was usually 1000 kina ($472) cash, plus a pig :ok: and a bag of rice, but some were also demanding sex as payment :}. "It's against our traditional ethics and morals for a sorcerer to have intercourse with a man's wife or teenage daughter :=," said one local cult leader in the Tangi area, inland from Madang province on PNG's northeast coast. "That was the main cause of frustration that led to the forming of a group to hunt down sorcerers. "Over time, as suspects were released to carry on as sorcerers, we got tired and fed up." There is a widespread belief in sorcery in PNG where many people do not accept natural causes as an explanation for misfortune, illness, accidents or death. Locals determined to get revenge on the profiteering witch doctors sought their own supernatural training from village chiefs, using their "possessed" :suspect:bush knives to hunt down and kill seven people since April, the report said. "We ate their brains raw and took body parts such as livers, hearts, penis :rolleyes:and others back to the hausman (traditional men's houses) for our chief trainers to create other powers for the members to use," one of those arrested said. The killings saw police raid Biamb village last week and arrest 29 people, eight of them women. A local expert in the supernatural cited by the newspaper said the way the group operated was different from traditional PNG hausman practice, which would normally see specific people trained to hunt a sanguma (sorcerer). "But these people never kill sorcerers in broad daylight, mutilate and eat sorcerers' flesh, livers, and hearts or make soup from the penis of sorcerers," he said. "This is insane and the cannibalism (of this group) goes beyond the local culture." Madang provincial police commander Anthony Wagambie urged other followers of the group, believed to number more than 1,000, to surrender. "It is the tip of the iceberg and more needs to be done to educate locals to eradicate the movement," he told The National. "Police cannot do it alone. It requires collective effort from government, responsible agencies, non-governmental organisations and the churches to work together." AFP

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Poterroo
I still have my charts with aeronautical information 1958 that doesn't have many airfields.This meant when I was given the days flying by yvonne with landing notes by Ron,[I would put a copy here if I was allowed to put jpgs.] I went to the tower to have pencil marks put on my chart where I was flying to for the first time. The 1968 chart does have Maipa marked between Bereina and Terapo 10 miles inland of track. In my log book I think py-mip-py 1.20 hrs.
When overnighting at Bereina we played cards and gave the boi in charge of the generator a bottle of beer to not turn it off at 2000, but to leave it on all night. Also I remember a story about a patair pig that landed with the wheels up. Very little damage and the pilot had a plan, get the natives to dig holes for the gear to drop in and drive it up and out. Unfortunately he was spooked by an overflying aircraft and lowered them early and broke them.
Bill Baldwin had a heavy landing at Efogi and I flew the c180 all the next day [practicing tail down wheelers] until Herbie Ray found the seam was torn one third of the way around the fuselage.
Does any one remember swimming the flume to the top of the turbine at Rouna Falls. It sound dangerous but Ron Firns had his children with us.
My first instuctor Brian Wetless has died in the last year, Keith Robey was at his funeral.