Was the PC9 pic at Mount Isa?

Correct! YPPH
Aircraft C402

Here's a couple more photos from my recent trans-Oz crossing in the FTDK.

http://www.fototime.com/6DD6E3B9AC2682B/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/6DD6E3B9AC2682B/standard.jpg

Dr :8

PS: In the circumstances, that's the best I can do - my 'puter got nicked in a home invasion / break and enter on Tuesday night! Lost all my pics!

Good luck for Wiz too, I hear your expensive fuel pump got knocked off also, the one you thought might help pump out some of that free fuel he has on offer over there:ooh:

J

Just kidding..........Get them beers on ice Wiz....weera coming over!

I see you made that trip at night FTDK!:}

Having your home broken into was a bit of hard luck, it always makes me mad to hear of people doing that. :mad:

I can only hope they are brought to justice.:ok:

ABX

I think the offenders have been caught on film......thats the security camera shots not his flying pics!:}

Lucky for them they didn't smile then!:}:E:}

Clinton got it right. Alice Springs, Bicentennial Air Race, 20/09/88
GA trojan, 'twas the other end of the airport - in front of the old RFDS & Skyport hangars.

http://Pamuva1.smugmug.com/photos/208923643-L.jpg

Guess where!

Don't know where it is U.

But I do know that the only reason the ship's going anywhere under sail is because of the downwash from the helo.

I'm sure that's not the way they did it in the 'olden days'.

Perhaps there's a niche here for helo operators who like hovering a lot over water behind ageing sail craft ....

Corkey - West Coast of the South Island for starters...best I can do :confused:

What yellow beast are you flying there?

LP

Launchpad - Tis a C185 and it most definately is the west coast but where exactly ?

Hint: is about as far away from anywhere as you can get in NZ but a falla lives there at that strip

hmmm OK Corkey, from your hint I'm reckoning Puysegur Point, up around Cromarty about at the lodge... maybe Spit Island.

The yellow 185 has me thinking too... only one anywhere near the area I can think of would be NZWF based...

Am I close? Do I get the Chocolate Fish??? :}

Or perhaps on second viewing around the Haast/Arawata River mouth, South side -can't think of the name of the bay. Which on reflection makes better sense of the yellow 185! When was it? Was Paul flying?

Hmmmm.....I'd have a crack at;

1. Jacksons Bay

or

2. Martins Bay

I thought it was Paul's machine as well. I kow there are 2 other yellow 185s, one being a magnificent recent-rebuild owned by a syndicate up here, and another that I don't see or hear about much but based in the South Island.

LP

I found your airstrips but have no idea of their names.

First one, 44*11'05" 168*11'32"
second one 44*01'40" 168*22'12"

Also appears to be another strip in between these 2, at Barn Bay just NE of the river mouth (about 300m long).

Would you have beleived someone if they had have suggested to you 20 years ago about an idea such as Google Earth? For FREE?

Apparently $160 kiwis a kilo now? :uhoh: http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/fish2.gif
Ya dont ask for a hundred grams anymore more like "I'll have half a dozen thanks" :{

Sorry Launchpad neither of those 2 places or machines. There are about 8 or 9 in the country that I know of which could fit the description. And yip that rebuild you are talking about is something special :8 would be hard to find a more impressive job :D

Warbo you are correct with locations. Must have taken quite a while to find them.

Yes that would be this one at Barn Bay
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...i-P1030286.jpg

Come on guys still after some names, that second one should be simple, a 185 operates out of there for a few months of the year,- they used to have a 180 untill it went missing about 10 years ago - never to be found :sad:

OMG :eek: there are some awesome airstrips over there. Gonna have to come over and visit one day. The ol' Buffalo will feel right at home.

Cheers,

Tiger

Must be Big Bay, but where exactly in Big Bay cant pick.

nah Prospector Big Bay it ain't. Got me scratching ma head but...

AND I Should know it too... was always getting asked about Ryan when in WF.

Oh well then I better put an end to the head scratching. The first one is the strip ar Gorge River and the 2nd one is the mouth of the mighty Cascade or the Cascade whitebait camp. :ok:

Not a whitebaitin" outfit then?

oh....................snap !:hmm:

haha ya get that :}

Well,theres eff all else to do on the West Coast other than walk around in flash boots and hairy sox.

Mate if ya got a set of wings and a propeller there's plenty to do down there, prob some of the best flying in the country if I may say so :ok:

Early morning shot
 

ahhhh... there we go!

Couldn't agree more Corky! Used to be about this time of year that once the whitebaiters had been in for a wee while, I'd drop the Islander on Big Bay on the way to NZMF (pax loved it!) and drop them off a wee bottle, a couple of newspapers and a kilo or two of rump steak... always got a feed of the white gold whilst there and at least 4-5 1/2-kilo bags frozen to take home! Great days, miss 'em & the places/people...

Remember a big old hollowed out log bath tub on a strip down that way back in the sixties?
The Whitebaitin' technique in them days was falling in the river with ya mouth open.
Deer was like sandflies....

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...l/P4050271.jpg

The terrain in between
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...l/P4050257.jpg


http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...l/P3290194.jpg
Two locations are approximately 60nm apart.

Any takers?

AfBANGistan there IJ

Maybe K(getting the hell out of)ha where you passed the ORCA Willy on your way out. The other well I'll have a look, but it aint Poo Poo Pe Doo.

richo

Vaguely recall similar Tinpis... the Hollyford strip springs to mind for some reason?

Yup, when I was kid whitebait was chook tucker -literally. It wasn't unusual in those days to wake up on a Saturday morning to find someone had dropped off a 10 litre bucket-full!!! Eat what you wanted, until you were sick of it, then give the chooks the rest. There'll be more next week...

...as were the helicopters of the airstrips in the area!!! I believe the feral population is exploding again, due the lack of hunters out there keeping the numbers in check! Wonder if we'll see the sights we used to see dawn & dusk again... fling-wing staggering home grossly overloaded, pilots & shooters covered in blood and ****e, helicopters littering the ground in every available spot! Huge fun in the pubs of a night too :}

Where is this?
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/c...sPhotos129.jpg

Richo,
Willy arrived only about a week before I bugged out in Dec. Do you know if he's still there?

Yet another community in the middle of nowhere..... Tjirrkarli

Agreed! and correct!

Is that the same BSH that I took down the West Coast on June 5, 6. 7th June1960??? It was a PA22 piper tripacer, painted red and owned by the Rotorua Aero club in those days. If it is must have had a charmed life, have seen that machine land at Rotorua with a heavyweight family onboard, returning from Air Force Reserve training Wigram, after landing Rotorua it was running on the nose, mains and the tail skid, must have had very good rubber bungees!!!

One for the FTDK
 

FTDK, Knowing you are a Bo' fanatic - take a look at the Rego on the tail of this poor old bird! Hope it doen't upset you ;)

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...1/PA210183.jpg

And, My weekend activities:
Question, What are the (TWO) type of aircraft, and where are we? (bonus point - what is the event?)

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...1/PA210182.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...1/PA210154.jpg

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Dr :8

Islander Jock...

Kabul & Ghanzi

Or Kabul, and somewhere 60nm from Kabul :E