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A little detour, outbound


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Sometimes the remote villages in Papua New Guinea urgently require supplies. And not always fancy, modern transport vehicles are available. So we had to take one of Air Niugini´s experienced planes.

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I could read the fear in the passengers faces. If they only knew my own doubts...

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Well, it was easy to start at Kokoda and follow the road to Girua.

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It got interesting when we turned right towards the valley...

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... of Emo River. You can see flaps and wheels were already extended in order to reduce speed...

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... and still we missed the waterfall slightly, ...

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... which brought us a bit offset to the runway of Emo Mission.

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But since we were slow enough it worked. And we could deliver the requested stuff into the freight hall.

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1 hour ago, Sniper31 said:

Way to get the DC-3 down onto the ground in that rough area Gerold. Delivering supplies into the back country is no easy milk run ;) 

Cheers!

Landon

Thank you Landon. Indeed not easy to fly there. But carrying the stuff by feet isn´t better either :o... (especially for us simmers)

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On 1/5/2022 at 10:33 PM, BradB said:

Looking mighty fine Sir !! .

Thank you John!

 

9 hours ago, bernd1151 said:

Oh how I love these adventure tours. I assume that freight hall at your destination is fully air-conditioned :D:D

You´re welcome Bernd.

I fear the a/c in the freight hall does not have the capacity for all that beer that was unloaded. The stock needed to be reduced urgently :P!

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