Follow up Alright, All You Dashing, Swaggering Bush Pilots

"Larry Smith" wrote in message ...
"Gerrie" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:02:40 GMT, (Gerrie)
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http://www.baragwanath.netfirms.com/.../airstrip.htm/

Sorry, I screwed up, the correct URL is

http://www.baragwanath.netfirms.com/...s/airstrip.htm

without the forward slash at the end

Gerrie

Is someone fibbing here? In the _Plane and Pilot_ article I referred to in
the thread, this particularly nasty airstrip (but "cake" for Waldo, Urb, and
Packie) is shown as having been carved from the jungle in Kalimantan,
Indonesia, which is a damn fur piece from South Africa.

Lar,

Looks a lot like where I learned to fly if you take that center bump
out. Can't see the rest of the strip, but looks about like 100ft
elevation difference; notice that is a a c-206/207/208 probably a six
with a belly pod for cargo. If I can figure out how to hook up the
scanner, I'll post some similar stuff with me flying. Granted that
one's a little worse... if I owned it I'd hire those guys at the top
to get the village to remove that center hump before some lawyer like
latchless gets killed on it. Pretty standard stuff in the third
world. Looks like he broke ground in about 500ft; he must be loaded
down with misprinted bibles or something.

pacplyer

On 17 Aug 2003 10:37:23 -0700, (pac plyer) wrote:


... he must be loaded
down with misprinted bibles or something.

Just curious... why would it be misprinted bibles?

Gerrie

(Gerrie) wrote in message ...
On 17 Aug 2003 10:37:23 -0700, (pac plyer) wrote:


... he must be loaded
down with misprinted bibles or something.

Just curious... why would it be misprinted bibles?

Gerrie

O.K. you win. He's hauling drugs and automatic weapons for the backhaul.

pacplyer
bring in the leaves

"pac plyer" wrote in message
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"Larry Smith" wrote in message
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"Gerrie" wrote in message

one's a little worse... if I owned it I'd hire those guys at the
top
to get the village to remove that center hump before some lawyer
like
latchless gets killed on it. Pretty standard stuff in the third
world. Looks like he broke ground in about 500ft; he must be
loaded
down with misprinted bibles or something.


The hump in the middle is the only way you'll get that baby in the
air off that strip.:-)
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pacplyer

The hump in the middle is the only way you'll get that baby in the
air off that strip.:-)

I know a grass strip that's like that, though far FAR less so than the picture
under discussion here.

OTOH, once when I came back from a flight to a nearby strip and mentioned it to
the hangar-flyers sittin' around at my home airport, they asked, "Did you see
the dip in the middle of the runway?"

They didn't hook me with that one... :-)