Thread: Fixed wing to Boyd strip?

Remember the days of free fall airdrops ?
I twice as a young fella did a couple of 2 week walkabouts in the Kaweka's and getting to Boyds for a food drop.
They never needed to land, just buzzed me and biffed the sacks out the door.
That was mid to late 1970's.......no surprises, we're not allowed to do that anymore. Possibility of bad seed species in the straw packing was the excuse.

I think a mate and I are responsible for that hernia Arthur suffered from, due to conditions or whatever, he flew us from North Arm to Boyd without our gear and then went back for that gear, in amongst it was a dive bag of boned out venison which we had carried to the strip in several loads, never thinking anyone would ever have to move it on their own...he never said a word about it but I bet he blew his arse loading it into the plane, sure as hell he never went near it unloading back in Taupo.

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Remember the days of free fall airdrops ?
I twice as a young fella did a couple of 2 week walkabouts in the Kaweka's and getting to Boyds for a food drop.
They never needed to land, just buzzed me and biffed the sacks out the door.
That was mid to late 1970's.......no surprises, we're not allowed to do that anymore. Possibility of bad seed species in the straw packing was the excuse.

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Great photo, looks a bit high for a drop hahaha

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

I think a mate and I are responsible for that hernia Arthur suffered from, due to conditions or whatever, he flew us from North Arm to Boyd without our gear and then went back for that gear, in amongst it was a dive bag of boned out venison which we had carried to the strip in several loads, never thinking anyone would ever have to move it on their own...he never said a word about it but I bet he blew his arse loading it into the plane, sure as hell he never went near it unloading back in Taupo.

Only few out of the North arm strip once with Arthur, He dropped the two others and dog off at the Boyd and came back for me and the gear,
I don't think we got above 50 feet the whole way down the valley, real in the weeds type shit

Originally Posted by striker

Only few out of the North arm strip once with Arthur, He dropped the two others and dog off at the Boyd and came back for me and the gear,
I don't think we got above 50 feet the whole way down the valley, real in the weeds type shit

When we left the Boyd, Arthur just run the plane off the end of the runway to be airborne, I thought we were going to flatten a tent some campers had set up in the direct flightpath of any planes coming or going to the Boyd.

Originally Posted by Sika 8

Great photo, looks a bit high for a drop hahaha

Probably thanks to the quality of the Kodak instamatic cameras back then ......