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Old August 17th 03, 02:52 PM
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"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


My first thought upon seeing that strip was a two-word exclamation. But
since you got the picture at church, I won't type it out. :-)

Wayne


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Old August 17th 03, 03:00 PM
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"Gerrie" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:02:40 GMT, (Gerrie)
wrote:


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.



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Old August 17th 03, 06:00 PM
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"Gerrie" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:00:04 -0400, "Larry Smith"
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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.


Don't know who's fibbing, but I will try and find out. I will contact
the missions agency on Monday and ask where they got the picture. It's
also shown on their website.

Nevertheless, Africa, Indonesia, who cares, I don't wanna land there!

Gerrie


Sorry, Gerrie. Poor choice of words on my part. I shouldn't suggest
someone is pulling one here. Look at the current P&P, though, and you will
see that wild looking strip said to be in Indonesia.

It looks to be a good candidate for Chris Heintz's CH 701 or the bigger CH
bushplane, both with eyebrows for STOL.


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Old August 17th 03, 06:34 PM
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"Gerrie" wrote ...
Nevertheless, Africa, Indonesia, who cares, I don't wanna land there!


One of the problems with photography is pictures taken at long range look
foreshortened. I'm sure that runway isn't what it seems to be in this
picture.

Rich


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Old August 17th 03, 06:37 PM
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"Larry Smith" wrote in message ...
"Gerrie" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:02:40 GMT, (Gerrie)
wrote:


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
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Old August 17th 03, 06:40 PM
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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
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Old August 18th 03, 02:38 PM
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"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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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe
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Old August 18th 03, 03:45 PM
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:00:02 -0400, "Larry Smith"
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"Gerrie" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:00:04 -0400, "Larry Smith"
wrote:


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.


Don't know who's fibbing, but I will try and find out. I will contact
the missions agency on Monday and ask where they got the picture. It's
also shown on their website.

Nevertheless, Africa, Indonesia, who cares, I don't wanna land there!


Hey Larry, you was right (and P&P). According to the missions agency
this nasty thing is near the village of Irianjira, Kalimantan
province, Indonesia.

It looks to be a good candidate for Chris Heintz's CH 701 or the bigger CH
bushplane, both with eyebrows for STOL.



Looks more like a candidate for a new roller coaster theme park or
something.
I still don't wanna land there! In fact, I don't even relish the idea
of being a passenger in a plane landing there.

 




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