Got a chuckle out of that, Creamy.


DF,
Thanks. Keep us posted. :ok:

Ah yes, DF. I believe you used to apply ANO rule 22-250, if I remember correctly!:ooh::}

Actually, didn't I once recommend ANO rule 250-303?:confused::E

The second hand carpet hangar at YSBK possibly does have a GA significance...
Perhaps buy a few truck loads and make an artificial RWY on Lake Eyre for the Searey? :p

I have a feeling that it would end up the same as what happened on one of the stations up north years ago who used old conveyor belting to make an artificial runway! Although the SeaRey's prop is up high, unlike a PA-28.

DF.

seams like a recovery attempt of the said Searay aircraft failed, aircraft has been destroyed and is set to become yet another salt encrusted island.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...1442a1e5b48622

OMG - what a mess!

DF.

now to just find a way to get out there and get a nice rotax spare engine! opps, am i thinking out aloud again?

Would love to have a read of the insurance claim..:ouch::eek:

what if it was the insurance company effecting the recovery?

Looks like a bug that got swatted! :O

Sounds like it wasn't set up properly. It requires a very special preparation, like spoilers on the wings etc, so that the aircraft does not 'fly' while being slung, as well as slinging to keep it in line with the airflow and stop it spinning in the rotor wash. Wonder whose chopper it was?

DF.

No spoilers visible here; real shame.
http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/...psdn7sengh.jpg

Try slinging it by the tail

Whose chopper is it?

DF.

Blind man on a galloping horse could've seen that coming. Fling wing pilots not the ideal person to entrust a fix wing sling recovery.;)

Just before I started with Douglas Airways in PNG one of the Pilots had a mishap at a very steep strip in the Goilalas (Erume) which resulted in the aircraft, a Bongo van,:ugh: sliding backwards off the strip into a ditch.:eek:

It was eventually retrieved back to Port Moresby at the end of a sling by Helicopter and as I seem to remember it was 'towed' backwards!

Have a vague idea I have a photo of it arriving back at Moresby. I'll have a look in due course.

Seems that recovery wasn't well thought out. (Ahem)
After the red faces have paled a bit, it'll be interesting to hear what went on.


Pinky,
Who would go to the trouble and expense of recovering a Bongo van?
A number of people found out that they were best left at the bottom of the nearest convenient ditch.

Stanwell; The Bongo van was a 300hp model with a fairly low TTAF. Also, from memory, it wasn't actually owned by Douglas Airways but by Dennis Douglas himself! He 'cross hired' it to the company.....sort of.:hmm:

OK, thanks Pinky.
300hp in a Bongo van? :D

Now to become another monument it seems ....
Can't help but feel sorry for the owner.

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