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[Splitpin]

Great work Nick ....thanks for sharing.
Take care ...between the locals, terrain, weather, and all those critters ...you have a lot to deal with

[chopper_nut]

Another batch.


Volcanoes running down ENB.


The constant threat to Rabaul.


Remains of a KI-21 Sally on the old Rabaul airstrip.


KI-43 Oscar wing, New Guinea Club Rabaul.


P-38? windscreen.


More Oscar. Complete with original markings.


Major earthquake in ENB so we were tasked to go off and look at the villages.




Flying politicians around. Parked up in Mt Hagan waiting for fuel.


Flying supplies to remote villages. This one at least had an airstrip.




Another first time for a helicopter visit to a village.


Airlifting a snake bite victim out of Menyamya.


Back in Mt Hagan.


Spent a couple of days operating out of Tari. Watching MAF do their thing...


The Chateaux la Tari. Chinese construction camp.




Just parked the helicopter in the camp.


This ended up in my room somehow. It sounded like a Hughes 500 flying toward me and when it ran into something, it sounded like somebody hit it with a hammer...

More soon.

[Splitpin]

Great shots Nick ...what a wild place.
What is the probe like thing sticking out the front of your chopper ?

I would love to get up close to some of that WW2 wreckage .....

[emfrat]

I would love to get up close to some of that WW2 wreckage .....

Cheers, Marty. Some bedtime reading for you
https://www.ozatwar.com/usaaf/atiu.htm

http://www.hangar7.org.au/ataiu.htm

ATB, Mike

[chopper_nut]

It is interesting being in places where all of this stuff happened during the war. There's a B17 on the side of a hill near here but I've never seen it. It's very complete though. Marty, the probe is an HF radio antenna... pain in the rear end as a means of communication let me tell you

[Splitpin]

Cheers Mike

[Splitpin]

It is interesting being in places where all of this stuff happened during the war. There's a B17 on the side of a hill near here but I've never seen it. It's very complete though. Marty, the probe is an HF radio antenna... pain in the rear end as a means of communication let me tell you

I thought it may have been for comms ...thanks for the info.
That B-17 would be fascinating ...are those sites protected at all ...ie war graves etc.

[chopper_nut]

They are actually. Surprisingly, the locals are mostly very respectful of such sites. Obviously things of use get taken away to be recycled into building materials etc.

On another note, we were on the news the other night

Watch on youtube.com

[Naki]

Enjoying these posts!

[chopper_nut]

Just a few more from the last couple of days.


Boss came and gave me a hand in Tari with the Bell


Flying back towards Mt Hagan


On the wall in the Lae International Hotel... my kind of place!


MEDEVAC into the mountains in some pretty rubbish weather. Another mother with birthing complications so we sort of had to really try to get in...




Village was JUST open... and kind of wet


Luckily there aren't many wires around... I don't know how keen I'd be to do this sort of thing in NZ.

[chopper_nut]

It's been a while since I posted anything on this thread. Just been ticking along in PNG. A few notable jobs and I'm now allowed to take the BK117 out by myself.


Kabwum district


Racing the weather home


Menyamia district


Picking up patient at high altitude


Social workers in the jungle


Bell 222 first run out of heavy maintenance


Trip to Bougainville carrying the body of a pastor that had died in PI


Picking up fuel on site as the airport was closed due to security concerns


The world is my helipad


Outside the Air Nuigini offices in Port Moresby


MEDEVAC on my birthday


High level cruise


Loooong trip to Bougainville again


Northern tip of Bougainville


Picking up body of a Geologist who'd been murdered


Came in through a hole in the bush that left me very few escape options


Picking up the injured parties just down the river


No suitable place to land in the village so....


Taking some important people into a village at 6000ft in the BK


Weather wanting to turn bad


No helipad so we used the villages basketball court


Christian missionaries stopping in for fuel


Very diverse fleet on the line. Bell 206L, Bell 222, BO105, AS350, BK117. The Bell 430 is hidden.


Last ICUS job before I was turned loose by myself in the BK. Dropping technicians at a Digicel tower.


Typical bush clearing

[Splitpin]

Nick ...great post. My goodness you are in the thick of it there mate ...... well-done mate

[Charl]

Cool series... a reminder to us living our sheltered lives that there is a Big world out there, and quite different!