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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Jan 2017, 04:22
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Fris B Fairing GOOGLE "Pacific Wrecks P2 002"....

Fris B Fairing
GOOGLE "Pacific Wrecks P2 002". You will find a picture of P2 002 mounted outside the Airways Hotel.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
17th Jun 2016, 04:09
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

PNG BORDER MARKS-NORTH COAST

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st Jul 2015, 06:19
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Mt.Yule Cross. Post #3686.

There is another cross on Mt.Albert Edward, erected in the 1930's, by by the French missionaries from the Catholic Mission at Ononge. A Google search indicated that it was still there recently.
...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
17th Jun 2015, 23:52
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

P2-MFR

A search of the PNG CASA Aircraft Registration Data Base shows that, as of 13th. May 2015, P2-MFR was still registered to MAF Mt.Hagen. My man in Hagen is trying to find out more.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
17th Jun 2015, 00:03
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

MAF FLIGHT TRAINING

Duck Pilot,
My man in Mt.Hagen tells me that MAF's flying school instructor, Rick Velvin, has gone south and MAF no longer provides flying training in PNG. It would appear that there...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th May 2015, 07:26
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

MORE OLD NEW GUINEA PHOTOS 1966-1972

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th May 2015, 06:49
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

MORE OLD NEW GUINEA PHOTOS 1966-1972

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th May 2015, 06:21
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

MORE OLD NEW GUINEA PHOTOS 1966-1972

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th May 2015, 05:58
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

OLD NEW GUINEA PHOTOS 1966-1972

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
11th Mar 2015, 04:27
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

PNG PIGS

Remember the Piaggio P166?

I had a flight Hagen to Moresby in one in the Sixties. I think the pilot was Eric Larson or such. Do any of you old timers remember the name? I don't think that TAA had...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
10th Sep 2014, 02:37
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

MT. TAVURVUR ERUPTION

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Eruption of Mt.Tavurvur on 1st. September 2014....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
16th Apr 2014, 07:49
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Those Magnificent Man In Their Flying Machine

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
16th Apr 2014, 07:43
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Mackine

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Jan 2014, 00:16
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

CARGO CULT

Standby Scum if you Google "Papua New Guinea Cargo Cult" there are a fair few articles on various Cargo Cults throughout the Pacific Islands including our old mate Yali from Madang.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Nov 2013, 23:54
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Liklik balus. Your post#3935

Bob Bates of Trans Niugini Tours, Mt.Hagen, flies his tourists from Hagen to Madang on an irregular basis in his PAC 750. You may be able to come to an arrangement with him to drop you off at Goroka...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Oct 2013, 06:37
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

SELBANG AIRSTRIP

I have a page of PNG AIP dated, 29th. August 1985, which shows the same strip details as provided by firethelaser's post. It also gives strip coordinates of 05 19'S, 141 45'E. If you look up these...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st Jul 2013, 01:50
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Post #3910 C206 Beach Landing

Waghi Warrior,
Received the attached information from John Cheung of Island Air, Madang.

News Wednesday 17th July 2013

Plane crashes
By ARMSTRONG SAIYAMA

A LIGHT...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Apr 2013, 00:54
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

NUGIDU

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Does anyone remember Nugidu airstrip about 8k North of Finchhafen? I landed there in July 1972 in a 260hp Bonanza. The strip was...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st Dec 2012, 05:03
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

The Balus Books

I have the first two of James Sinclair's Balus books and have recently unearthed a a copy of Sepik Pilot signed by Bobby Gibbes. You don't realise at at the time you get them what collector's items...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
17th Aug 2012, 03:24
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Mission Pilots at Aitape

The pilot third from the left is indeed Gordon Campbell. He owned a C205, P2-KNC. I see from my log book that I ferried it from Moresby to Vanimo 3/9/1975 for Gordon. Stayed overnight at his pub and...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
22nd Jul 2012, 05:26
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Aircobra

an3 bolt,
Yes that,s the one. Have also found a website of PNG airstrips which gives a few details of the two P-400's recovered from Bulldog in 1984. Also noted that walking tours of the Wau-Bulldog...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Jul 2012, 22:26
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

BELL P-39 AIRCOBRA

Two Aircobras (P-400, the export version) were recovered by an American, Jack Taft, (now deceased), from Bulldog, for restoration, on the condition that the best one stayed in PNG. One, P400 AP-347,...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Jul 2012, 06:47
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

MAIPA

Gusatstol,
My old WAC is probably a bit more recent than yours but it doesn't show a strip at Maipa either. However if you open Google Earth and go to
8 20'18"S,146 32'25"E, there is a...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
6th May 2012, 00:02
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Stolen Railway/Caribou Prangs

The story of Keith Tetley "stealing" the Sogeri-Bootless Bay railway was always a topic of conversation, from time to time, in the SPAC bar in the Sixties and Seventies. As to the truth of the...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
1st May 2012, 06:21
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Bill Johns

Sorry to hear of Bill's passing. Spent many a happy hour with Bill in the SPAC bar. He gave me my first hour of dual instruction in P2-CTM, John Close's Tiger Moth.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Apr 2012, 09:41
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Ray Thurecht

Torres,
Re your query about Ray Thurecht. As of November last year Ray was still in Moresby and still involved with the Port Moresby Yacht Club.
...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Apr 2012, 08:34
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Vince Sanders

Those who knew Vince Sanders will recall that, among other things, he was a PNG amateur historian. The following is one of his original historical articles. It's now nearly forty years old so excuse...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
18th Apr 2012, 04:28
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Airniugini Funny Business?

From the Post Courier, Friday 13th. April 2012.

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Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Feb 2012, 23:10
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Lightie in Vitiaz Strait

Aussie02,
I stand corrected. Wrong decade/failing memory.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
18th Feb 2012, 03:52
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Tinpis, your post #3588

Re that lighie that came apart in the Vitiaz Strait. It happened in the mid sixties. I was in Hagen at the time when a police inspector based in Hagen was transferred to New Britain (Rabaul/Kimbe?)....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
21st Dec 2011, 21:19
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

TWO WEEKS IN "PARADISE" CONTINUED.

See previous post #3563

With full fuel, departed Hagen for Rabaul (Tokua) with a proposed overnight in Madang. However on arrival Madang found there was no Avgas available in town and probably...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Dec 2011, 22:14
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

TWO WEEKS IN "PARADISE"

Went back to PNG October/November this year, for the first time in five years, with the intention of grabbing my old Comanche (which now lives in Mt.Hagen) and flying to Rabaul to see the post...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
10th Oct 2011, 07:27
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

P2 BOB

Last P2 BOB I saw was owned by Bob Bates Trans Niugini Tours at HGU.

It is indeed Bob Bates 55 Baron originally painted brown. My man in Hagen thinks it was painted in it's present colours about...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Sep 2011, 08:19
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Stowaways.

Many years ago at a fuel stop at Cooktown, on the way to POM, saw this bunch of bees trying to hitch a ride to somewhere on a C172. The photo is a bit faded-a bit like the photographer these days....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Sep 2011, 07:41
Replies: 4,639
Views: 2,063,789
Posted By P2 WDL

Bird Strike

When the ADF would do their PNG familiarisation flights they would sometimes manage an overnight at the Bensbach Lodge.

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Whilst I was...
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