Odd question, but what type of seatbelt arrangment did the early 185s have? Just lap sash or did they have a shoulder inertial belts as well?

Cheers

Easy.Lap sash type

I'll bet this brings back some memories!!!



New function on PPRuNe, released a couple of hours ago! :ok:

Good, innit?

good stuff guys some real flying

Hats off to the bloke who flew and held the camera in the second movies.
Pity the bold and daring of today break their necks to get into somethin' with computers and seem to think that real AEROPLANES aren't worth wasting their time on.

Coupla "snaps" from the olden days of some of the steeds being mentioned.

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Chuckles idea or a real areoplane. Pod and no spats.


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Brian McCook was chuffin from Mendi to Hagen soon after he brought GKR into the country.
He was somewhat surprised to find a bloody great DC-3 zooming past his left hand side and across his bows by the old sinner below.
Brian made a transmission of a nature that the D.C. Publication No. 46 Section 2, paragraph 6 forbade.
He couldn't help the swearword or two because he was so chuffed at being in the place where we could get away with this sort of thing.
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Barrie Rogers

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That last photo brings back memories of my first flight within PNG - Port Morbid to Samarai on the "Sunbird Service" Catalina. Must have been around 1963 or 1964? The old girl sat at the amphibian base for a long time until sold to Bill Chapman's museum for a reputed one shilling.

I heard it ended up in New Zealand and is flying again?

Last I heard McChook moved from Queensland to Tasmania and is not well.

Torres.
Somewhere else in here (pprune) someone said the Cat is almost complete to static standards in N.Z.
When I found that picture lastnight, I was looking for a slide taken in 1977 (My cousin's) of the old girl wearing a sign saying she was off to N.Z.
I visited Mac a few years back in the Brisbane valley and he was'nt exactly jumpin' over fences then. I've heard he's crook too. I'll check with a bloke who knows these things later today.
I visited him, Jim Sinclair and a couple of old prewar people from N.G. trying to see if any could identify places on a bunch of home movies my uncle took in 1940 to 42. They're on Early Years - Papua New Guinea Aviation
Brian had a magic VHS tape of his adventures flying a Cat all over the world for a documentary. Bloody glorious thing painted white with red and blue that looked better than a painting when moored in the Amazon and amongst icebergs in the Arctic. It was something to do with Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes. Who remembers them?... "the most popular cigarettes in the world" the American voice told us from the black and white TV while there was the backdrop of sophistigated Noo Yorkers smokin' 'em like they were the only cigarette in the States. I had a yank visit me about 1970 and he asked how you pronounce it when he saw a billboard... Haa!
I asked Brian if I could get a copy of that tape, but his recorder was playing up and he was scared the tape could get eaten and it was the only one he had. He was also a bit wary of any recorders, so he wasn't keen on me bringing mine to his place and doing a copy.
He said it was hard work as the crew were working hard after and before flight while the cameramen and others sloped off to the accommodation ans settled down for a beer.
I am sucking the contents out of the brains of another old bloke, friend of me' father who went to Wau in 1935 and became the only engineer there with A,B,C and D licenses. He went on to own Muir Airways in Darwin and Perth.
He's the only living, Flight Engineer left from the Qantas Cat fleet, that flew the Indian ocean, Perth to Columbo.
Tells great stories which I taped and now I regularly ring him to get more bits.
They initially were so overloaded (Till dump valves were fitted) that they couldn't hold altitude on one engine for the first ten hours. No wonder they didn't go much above 1500 feet for the trip.

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AND don't forget this.

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I can remember watching some beaut home movies of that very Booboo in the Corney house in Madang sixtiesrelic. They should be kept for posterity as well mate :ok:

Great news Mr Fantome :ok:
There may be some early copies of Windsock still about? :rolleyes:

I either didn't know or forgot about them Tinny.
I'll get onto him. He gave me the photos of the Boo.

Fantome, see if you can get a copy of the Catelina tape he has. Mentioned it here of on one of the other threads.

Its been a while, but is the Boo posed on Omkali?

Aircraft Pics
 

Does anyone out there have more pics of the Ansett Mal Caribou and Sunbird Cessnas that can be used for model aeroplane references?
Thanks in advance

cheers
wal

An interesting pic of old crates at Kainantu 1953
I never applied to Laurie for a job. I dont think I had the right stuff to handle his "fleet" :uhoh:

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Photo: Harry West Ex Kiap - past Papua New Guinea Patrol Officers - PNG Past and Present

Historic photo tinpis. I remember Harry West as DC somewhere, but can't recall where. May have been Eastern Highlands before Jim Sinclair?

sixtiesrelic, does McChook mention his beer glass eating trick? :}

Went to Danny Leahy's funeral a few weeks ago. All the old timers were there - Peter Howard, Neil Latimer, Jim Sinclair, Brian Costello, Paul Bolger, Bob Oatley and a plethora of others whose names I forget now.

There was an "A Nesbit" listed in the Queensland Whitepages and a few months ago I tried to call the number a few times but got no answer. Checked this morning and the number is gone from the Whitepages. I wonder if GHOC is also gone?

Torres, I'm pretty sure GHOC's surname was spelt Nisbet.

Last heard of in Cairns.

:)

Torres.
No, I only visited him once, but Fantome is in contact with him and is sucking out his memories,

FWIW amazed this old bugger still exists :uhoh:

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