Not giving away who this was...but a worthy piccy for the 1000th post


http://www.fototime.com/{B5FA2D30-64...5}/picture.JPG

Hey on an unrelated matter can anyone PM me with Brian McCooks contact details in Brissy?

Was hoping to see him at the Talair reunion but he didn't show:confused: :sad:

Oi Chuck,

Worthy indeed, but we all know this was how you told the missus to "put the kettle on I'll be home in a mo".:E

:}

It took me months to work out how to buzz my house in the C185 at Chimbu...without killing myself...it was over the river on the Goroka side and we needed to pipe in sunshine. The missus said it looked pretty cool:ok:

Anyone else remember the Dash 8 go pinis do at Dreamworld?

Any lower and a certain Cunnuck would have taken the bandit THROUGH the haus win not over it:D :E

AC just smiled indulgently and sipped on his beer...DS the CP just looked pained and said "Tell me that wasn't one of ours Chuck"

"But Drew that would be lieing!" :}

Chuck, check PM.

Thanks....check yours...just had a long chat with Brian.:ok:

Whadaya reckon shags.......

Hey Chuck, anyone can superimpose a pic of an Otter turning, on a quiet PNG beach scene!, ---is 'quiet PNG beach scene' an oximoron???.

Why would someone go to the trouble bluefly?

BTW This Woomera knows who was piloting said Twotter...the above picture was NOT one of his better efforts...just one of the more public, hence the picture. I have seen, first hand, one of his better efforts and believe me grabbing your camera was not the first thing that sprang to mind:E

Wasn't exactly serious, woomera, certainly no need to justify a 'turn onto final'.

Clive Steel Club Mendi
 

By the above club do we mean the new club that was built to replace the wooden hut that was the Mendi Valley Club?
The Army did that in 1971 and I helped pour the concrete for the foundations but never saw it finished.
(I had probably been banned from it anyway:} )
Does it still stand or is it a charred ruins?
Who was Clive Steel(e) ?

Back to the Swamp Ghost... Trevor Michie's PNG Gossip Newsletter provides the following URL

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-2446.html

Well having gotten her out of the swamp I hope to christ they get her out of Lae!!

She certainly looks in remarkable condition.

Used to be fun getting down really low over the swamp and looking for the yellow tail sticking up...it was about the only reliable way to find it...even when you knew approximately where in the swamp it was.

Interesting to read the history which dispelled the story I was told when in Talair in the 80s. We all thought it was one of the aircraft that flew in to Hawaii during the Pearl Harbour attack on December 7th...one the flight of B17s that had casued the approaching Japanese to be ignored when spotted by the radar unit. That, we are told, was the reason the Yanks were so keen to get her back.

There are copies of Balus III and Sepik Pilot advertised for sale on EBay. Use the EBay search function.

The copy of Balus III is not cheap.............

To those who knew him....
Sketchy details at present , but believe Martin Tyler just passed away in the U.K.
He was well known in PNG in the sixties and early seventies before moving on as Managing Director of FIJI AIR.
He had a liking for redheads , known as ' Tyler's Tokarara Tomatoes "
More recently he ran a restaurant in Fiji named ' War and Peas "
Sadly another of life great characters has passed on.

RIP Martin.

The Tyler of the "Adams and Tyler" Tabibuga trade store fame and later Traffic manager for M@cair in Lae before the Talair takeover

I went for beer about lunchtime after work on a Saturday in Lae.
He said hey, you finished those two loads of roofing iron pretty damn quick.
While he had been supervising from the boozer his new trafficboi had double loaded the Porter !
:uhoh:

Farewll Martin.
I'll have a few beers and maybe even toss a few darts im memory of those fun years in the late 1960's!

Martin of the 'Three BBB' guitarist fame. Loved a beer and rather accurate at the dart board.

I recall a time in the late 60's before HOVS returned to the scene as Port Manager- Mt Hagen, some 40 odd (may have been more) 44 gallon drums of avgas were unloaded outside the terminal late one night.

Later it was found that these drums contained kero and not avgas.

After some months without collection by the (rightful) owner, nor any quiries about them, the contents gradually evaporated.

I believe that many a village light was lit and kaukau kooked using a rather cheap product!

Harere ra.

Very sorry to hear about Martin.

I recall an incident when he came back from Spain with a replica flintlock pistol. We modified it to use toy pistol caps for percussion and packed it with powder from a shotgun cartridge and some miscellaneous aircraft hardware as shot. After many attempts in the Mac@ir workshop it went off, destroying the gun, damaging Martins hand and sending the hardware through the accounts office and embedding itself in the rear wall.

The women in the office were extremely angry!

The Porter flew just as well with a double load too!

R.I.P.Martin.

I remember the pistol thing! I was there at the time
The Porter double load I remember because I was the poor silly bugger that flew it.
Kianteba or somewhere close to Lae???

How old was Martin not that senior Im sure?

Anyone see his old flame Jo Bamber at all?

Tinpis, I had a feeling you were an ex Mac@irian:)

Martin would have been in his mid 60's.