SYNOPSIS John 'Hairy' Richards starts the aviation company in Papua New Guinea. Staff change, accidents happen but the company is successful. In a tale of PNG's aviation history, come on a journey of endeavour. The hits and misses happened, though the lives of one of the many intrepid families who rode the wave of Independence and carved out their own slice of history. In a brutal attack, highland warriors assault Hairy. Traditional men with clubs, bows and arrows. This was no chance robbery by raskals. Could it be James ...
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SYNOPSIS John 'Hairy' Richards starts the aviation company in Papua New Guinea. Staff change, accidents happen but the company is successful. In a tale of PNG's aviation history, come on a journey of endeavour. The hits and misses happened, though the lives of one of the many intrepid families who rode the wave of Independence and carved out their own slice of history. In a brutal attack, highland warriors assault Hairy. Traditional men with clubs, bows and arrows. This was no chance robbery by raskals. Could it be James Booker, wanting complete control? Or maybe the opposing airlines are fed-up with the competition. Hairy undergoes miraculous surgery and is then medivaced to Brisbane; doctors doubt he will survive. Booker offers plenty for the shares. Hairy is suspicious, should he sell and release control? Entwined in these pages are memories of Papua New Guinea's early, post-independence, aviation history and a memoir of actual events. PROLOGUE Nomad traces the fortunes of an aviation company conceived and established around the time of Papua New Guinea's independence in 1975. That period of the country's aviation history involved a struggle on the part of new operators to establish themselves alongside those already in existence, and the latter were experiencing major difficulties in the changed climate. There were no 'Queensberry Rules' - the gloves were off. Papua New Guinea's history has often been one of violent and cannibalistic tribal conflict, and in the immediate post-independence period, this element penetrated the business communities, both local and expatriate, to some degree. Indeed, the 'pay-back system' is as alive now as ever. Mountain flying requires considerable training, and nowhere is this more the case than in P.N.G. Tropical weather and commercial pressures place most pilots in very stressful situations at times. And because of P.N.G.'s remoteness, a free house, furniture and health-care were all parts of a normal employment contract in those days. So, a company manager often ended up as trainer, employer, parent, confidant and marriage counsellor to members of his or her staff, and to their respective families. This is the story of Independent Aviation Transport, the first one-hundred-percent locally-owned aviation company in Papua New Guinea. It was also the first commercial purchaser of the Australian-built, gas turbine-powered, Nomad aeroplane. The rapid development of the IAT Company created a lot of resentment and jealousy... and that is just a part of the story.
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Fine. 8vo. 289pp. Pictorial card. As new. A rolicking (true) tale of aviation in Papua New Guinea by ajournalist on secondment to NBC in the mid-1970s.
