I don’t get all the concern about this coronavirus. We should be drinking Aussie beer, not stuff from Mexico
Of course, isn't this obvious to everyone?
I don’t get all the concern about this coronavirus. We should be drinking Aussie beer, not stuff from Mexico
Nope, but I do hear stories about him a fair bit. Sometimes I train with a guy named George Valines who works for him.
I spent a large amount of my working life in choppers (only occasionally these days). Back when working in the jungles of PNG, nearly all of our pilots were ex-deer recovery drivers from the NZ deer wars of the 1970-80’s, and they are / were amazeballs. First flight of the day, standard practice was to hover near a tree and trim the branches with the rotor to get the eyeball / rotor tip distance calibrated, as they could almost guarantee to be hitting trees during the day’s flying.Apparently only two people died in that helicopter crash.
Unfortunately, most crashes are pilot error....
I spent a large amount of my working life in choppers (only occasionally these days). Back when working in the jungles of PNG, nearly all of our pilots were ex-deer recovery drivers from the NZ deer wars of the 1970-80’s, and they are / were amazeballs. First flight of the day, standard practice was to hover near a tree and trim the branches with the rotor to get the eyeball / rotor tip distance calibrated, as they could almost guarantee to be hitting trees during the day’s flying.
Me heading out to the hills with 100kg of placcy explosive...
A022 by Eoin Christie, on Flickr
B015 by Eoin Christie, on Flickr
Yes, it’s a Twotter. We used to use them to fly kit between airstrips, and then chopper in from there.Is that plane a Twin Otter?
And do you blow stuff up for a living or was that cargo on the flight anyway?
Yep, it’s a great read. I spent a fair bit of time up in the Highlands, and on the Sepik on the North side, and down in the Gulf in the South.Have you read “throim way leg” by Tim Flannery Eoin?
Good read. Looking for new species in PNG and West Papua in the 80’s
Hopefully some of the missionaries.Yes, it’s a Twotter. We used to use them to fly kit between airstrips, and then chopper in from there.
The Powergel is for seismic, but we had free reign for blowing things up, too.
Faark me. Not sure who's madder - the pilot or the shooter.This is why we used ex-Tim Wallis deer recovery pilots - Mad skilz...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKWvsS-z9PU
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