From about 1956/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKdpFcFabnk
This is the last aviation themed snippet I have for posting, following earlier ones under the “Canberra over my garden” thread.
Hope they were interesting. Sorry about the cheesy sounds, they come with the editing software,and the river plane take off sound was a DC3. I shall be doing some other uploads but they are of places and travel (persia in 1953) more on Papua, and the Persian Gulf in about 1957/8. So I won’t link, but the account is CJE49.
Christopher Elsom
By: Martti Kujansuu - 19th February 2007 at 15:41
Finnish Mörkö-Morane. The fastest (?) propeller-driven Morane-Saulnier with fuselage from MS 406, Klimov M-105P engine, VISh-61 propeller and 20 mm Mauser MG 151 cannon.
Martti
By: Ron Cuskelly - 19th February 2007 at 03:36
Anyone indentify the Yellow/Brown painted Cat in one of the slides?
Hi Feather #3
That would be PBY-5A VH-WWC registered to Australian Petroleum/World Wide Air Services of Port Moresby on 28AUG57. It was sold to TAA in 1961. On 26APR62 it struck an object and sank off Daru. It was replaced by the more familiar VH-SBV.
By: ChristopherE - 18th February 2007 at 22:33
PS
The note on the slide of the Catalina shows the place as Barakewa ,also the croc catch was there. I think from the slide listings the Beaver and rig blowout were at Kuru, perhaps a smaller river . I should have listened more when my Dad
had his slideshows!!!!
PPS as for the elder young man in shorts… you should see him now.:diablo:
By: ChristopherE - 18th February 2007 at 21:26
Did you mean elder young man in “shorts”.?
‘Twas my brother Tony , to and from the Uk to a prep school in Yorkshire. At the time England was barely out of rationing. I was living the life at Ela Beach primary school…
By: Feather #3 - 18th February 2007 at 20:35
Certainly gives photographic evidence of the fact that QF operated DC-4’s!:p
The elder young man in the shots would certainly have been on the school trips to and from boarding school in Qld.
Anyone indentify the Yellow/Brown painted Cat in one of the slides?
G’day 😉
By: ChristopherE - 18th February 2007 at 07:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbeUDnxdRco
Short slide show of Port Morseby including a few of the Beaver and some Catalinas in the harbour and upriver.
By: ChristopherE - 16th February 2007 at 18:36
Glad to know the shots of seaplanes in PNG were interesting. I have often thought these old family cine films should have an outlet. Glad to use utube!
I also transferred by way of a handheld slide viewer and a video camera a batch of 35mm slides. (I had just bought an ultra slim cannon scanner with no slide adaptor facility) and proper slide scanners are still pricey…so the image is fairly poor… anyway. I have some other views of the Beaver and the Catalina which I will post as a slide show. And Jackson’s Strip too.
This is still aviation themed.
Any takers for “anthropoligacal” utubes . Lakatois,Koki, Kurdistan, Buiks,etc????
By: Feather #3 - 14th February 2007 at 10:16
Thanks so much!!:D
The Beaver alone is worth the footage [and the engine does sound like an -1830 not a -985], but it’s great to see the Cat in action.
Bring on the rest, please.
G’day 😉
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