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In honor of the Demise of the Latest US Airline with a mostly Yellow Paint scheme. How about this vintage publicity shot of Hughes Airwest announcing there new Paint scheme and Flight attendant uniforms. On the wing of an unidentified DC-9-30 (that I probably worked on 10 years later when it was flying for Republic then Northwest Airlines.
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Ford Trimotor being unloaded in Wau PNG in the 30s. Photo credit Geoff Goodall

Although the straight line distance from Lae to Wau is only 75km and from Lae to Bulolo only 65km everything was flown in as the terrain was such that there were no roads. The biggest loads were eight gold dredges each weighing some 7,000 Imp tons/tonnes or 7,700 US tons.

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Loading large pieces in both the Junkers and Fords involved parking the tail wheel on a set of scales, removing the roof, using the crane to position the load, remove the sling, position the roof, check the weight on the tail wheel and calculating the CoG. If the CoG was within limits then the roof was bolted down. If not the roof was removed, the load reslung and then moved fore or aft as required.

Unloading a Junkers G.31. Photo probably James Sinclair or Richard Leahy.
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One of the gold dredges. Photo AWM
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If you want more details look for a copy of James Sinclair's book Wings of Gold.
 
cammerjeff said:
In honor of the Demise of the Latest US Airline with a mostly Yellow Paint scheme. How about this vintage publicity shot of Hughes Airwest announcing there new Paint scheme and Flight attendant uniforms. On the wing of an unidentified DC-9-30 (that I probably worked on 10 years later when it was flying for Republic then Northwest Airlines.
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....no mellow yellow there! 😉😍🥰😆😂
 
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