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1960
1960 - 0017.PDF
January 1960 17 . . . and the dJOOOtt gravel runway at Bulolo is at 2,240ft. The Bulolo strip, like that at Wau, was prepared in 1927, when New Guinea Gold began air transport between the coast and the goldfields with a D.H. 9 and a D.H. 37 The DC-3 in which I flew from Port Moresby had a mixed configuration of hard and semi-soft seating and would obviously have proved attractive to the gentleman seen sitting on the p.s.p. Ten minutes after leaving Bulolo we were making our approach to Wau, which has a ifilOH grass strip said to be at an elevation of 3/(75ft—in fact, one end is about 300ft higher than the other Having landed uphill, we parked ways-on to the slope. Lying at the bottom of the hill was an aircraft that had NOT been parked sideways Soon after / arrived the Otter "Kerowagi" came in from Lae and I joined it tor the next stage of my trip—Lae via Bulolo. The floor of the Qantas building on the right is actually level! Seen from the Otter is the Bulolo River, where the finding of gold in 1925 brought into being the first air transport in New Guinea. The heavy equipment was flown from the coast in Junkers G-31s—remember? [Continued overleaf
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