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What happens when you lose track of a few extra boxes of some film cameras, and then find them again a few years later? You sell them, of course! And that's exactly what B&H is doing with a number of Fujifilm GF670 cameras that Fujifilm found in its American warehouse. It's still a fairly recently produced camera, but seeing as it was discontinued in 2014, this is likely the last chance you'll have to get a new one. B&H doesn't say how many will be in stock, but you can add one to your cart and check out for $1,799 $1,199 $2,199 and an estimated January 25 February (see update below) ship date.
The GF670 is a metered, rangefinder-style body reminiscent of the Polaroid 110-series cameras. It's Fujifilm's most recently produced body that shoots medium format film in a 6x7 frame; and its fold-up body means it's relatively compact for what it does. The fixed 80mm f/3.5 lens is coated with Fujifilm's EBC coating to reduce ghosting or flaring and it is relatively fast for a medium-format-system lens.
If you plan on getting in on this last chance for a brand new GF670, don't forget to add a few rolls of film so you can shoot as soon as it arrives (feel free to share a few shots with us, too!).
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that B&H found the GF670 stock in its warehouse, but this came from a misunderstanding. In fact, it was Fujifilm that found the cameras in one of its warehouses and that will be sending them to B&H for sale online. Thanks to Josh Rottman for pointing this out.
UPDATE: As of Tuesday, B&H changed the price to $1,999. It is unclear if this is some kind of correction or what the reasoning is, but it would make sense if this was in response to popular demand of the first planned batch for sale, as the estimated availability has now shifted to February.
UPDATE 2: B&H seems to keep raising the price (likely in response to demand), but it also seems to have settled now at $2,199.
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You made a whole lot a people jealous that's what happened.
It was $1800 yesterday, B&H just jacked it up another $200 overnight!
Hopefully they'll find a few (hundred) boxes of extra FP100C laying around in the future too.
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Firecracker shuts down Alexandria City High School football game
Vernon Miles September 27, 2021 at 3:35pm
The Alexandria Police Department confirmed that a firecracker, not gunshots, prematurely ended a football game Saturday between Herndon High School and Alexandria City High School (ACHS).
"The game was called with less than three minutes remaining," said Claire Going, a spokesperson for Alexandria City Public Schools. "Fans began self-evacuation. Once the source of the noise was determined, an announcement was made to let people in the stadium know what had caused it."
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The incident occurred less than a week after a shooting just a few blocks from the school. Police confirmed that the source of the sound was a firecracker, not gunshots.
"There was a loud bang which turned out to be a firecracker," said Senior Public Information Officer Amanda Paga. "The game was stopped and the stadium was evacuated."
The ACHS Titans won the game 41-7 over Herndon, according to the Alexandria City High School Football Boosters.
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Longford referee recruitment drive
Longford's drive to recruit up to twenty new referees has gathered momentum in recent weeks and this Friday, January 15, is the closing date for clubs to submit the names of personnel interested in taking up the whistle.
At County Board meetings and annual Convention recently, clubs were asked to prioritise the search for new referees and supply at least one new reiteoir for the 2016 season.
Chairperson of the Referees Administration Committee Joe O'Brien, in his report to convention, highlighted that there are only 31 trained and qualified referees in the county but most of the time, there are just 25 or 26 officials to work with.
He added, "To run a smooth and effective refereeing service it would require 45 referees."
Putting pressure on clubs to find new referees, Mr O'Brien said, "The time for lip service from clubs is over and they must make a serious effort to provide at least one new and young referee."
Longford County Board intends holding training courses for their new referee recruits, male and female, beginning on February 1.
Staying on the topic of referees, Cavan's Maggie Farrelly made GAA history last Wednesday by becoming the first female official to referee a senior men's inter-county game - the clash of Fermanagh and St Mary's in the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup.
In 2015, she became the first female to take charge of an inter-county game when she officiated at the Ulster minor Championship tie between Fermanagh and Antrim at Brewster Park.
A member of the Laragh United club, Maggie took up refereeing in 2008 - and she has revealed that she was approached to take up the whistle by her club chairperson Thomas McKenna in response to a shortage and recruitment drive similar to the one Longford is currently embarking upon.
Maggie joined the Ulster GAA Referee Academy in 2011 and the following year she refereed the Cavan All-County League decider.
In 2014, she refereed the county U-21 final, the All-Ireland Ladies' senior final, and was named Ulster GAA Referee of the Year. Alongside taking charge of an Ulster MFC encounter in 2015, she was also fourth official at the Kerry-Dublin league match in Croke Park.
Maggie says she derives a lot of enjoyment out of refereeing. "The opportunity is there for everyone to become involved and become a referee. You will be trained up. It is not based on gender. You are appointed and out there to do your job based on your knowledge of the rules. Everyone reacts differently to you but everything has been positive so far."
Her progress through the refereeing ranks has been steady and while it may not be too long before we see Maggie taking charge of a NFL, Ulster SFC or All-Ireland qualifier game, she is refusing to get carried away.
"Appointments are always made on merit so you just have to be patient and wait your turn as such, to be given your chance to officiate.
"I am just Maggie Farrelly and I am just a referee. I don't expect red carpets rolled out for me. I am treated like everybody else. I don't have high expectations of how I should be treated because I am no different to anybody else. Regardless of gender, I have the same fitness tests to do, the same written tests to do. I get the same support as any other referee."


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The Boot News Roundup: George Strait Adds Two More Shows to Las Vegas Residency + More
Amy McCarthy
Amy McCarthy Published: August 14, 2019
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Welcome to The Boot's News Roundup, a morning rundown of the news country music fans need to know. Read on to learn more about the latest goings-on in the country, Americana, bluegrass and folk genres.
George Strait has added two new dates to his long-running Strait to Vegas residency in 2020. The King of Country Music's new shows — set for Jan. 21 and Feb. 1 at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena — will feature rising country quartet Gone West as his support act. Tickets for both dates go on sale on Aug. 23 at 10AM local time at StraitToVegas.com.
To celebrate the release of his new album Heartache Medication, Jon Pardi will headline a concert at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. Pardi's new album is due out on Sept. 13, and he will bring a "one-of-a-kind" show to the Big Apple on Sept. 27, a press release reports, alongside special guest Tyler Rich. Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday (Aug. 16) at 10AM ET via JonPardi.com.
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Texas country artist Cody Jinks has announced plans to release a brand-new album. Titled After the Fire, the 10-track record will be the first project released on Jinks' own label, Late August Records, and is the follow-up to 2018's Lifers. After the Fire is set for release on Oct. 11.
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Approximately forty students attend school from 5 to 9 in the evening, and all day Saturday, at the Kwanobuhle Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as The Mormons). The school has been functioning now for over four weeks. Nine teachers have volunteered to teach ten classes. All but four of the teachers are members of the Church. The schedule is very demanding, but there has not been a shortage of students who want to take part in improving their education.
Elder and Sister Van Sickle, full time missionaries for the Church, teach a Career Workshop in Kwanobuhle, and they found that the students were still not able to get good jobs. What they needed was to upgrade their Matric scores.
"We had a hard time getting the school started," said the Van Sickles, "but once the school was started we have had a steady stream of students who want to further their Matric so that can get into college and university." The Bishops and other leaders of the Church have been at the centre of making the school a success. They have recruited teachers from all over Kwanobuhle.
Many of books have been ordered for the school as far back as November, and as of now they still do not have all of the books. "With the help of our Heavenly Father, we were led in so many directions to get books and to get the school up and running," said the Van Sickles. As they started the school with no books, the teachers jumped right in as if they had been teaching for years and doing a great job, even with the handicap of not having the books they needed.
Not only have the students been blessed with increased knowledge, but the Lord has had a hand in many other blessings that have come about because of the school. Several less-active members of the Church have been fellowshipped; and other non-members are being taught the gospel. The school has been a hub of activity for the congregations of the Church. The teachers comment about the quality of the students and their great desire to learn.
"Neither of us are teachers," commented the Van Sickles, "so we have been required to do a lot of things we knew nothing about. We could not have done it without the help of a kind Heavenly Father." They originally started the school at the high schools, trying to get them to respond to the needs of these students. The high schools were having a lot of their own struggles, so the Bishop offered the church meetinghouse as a place for the school. The school board has been a great support, and are applauding the success of the students.


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«Drabadzi-drabada» — пятый студийный альбом белорусской поп-рок-группы «Крамбамбуля», вышедший 27 декабря 2011 года. Альбом посвящён европейским народным песням, которые исполняются как на белорусском языке, так и на языке оригинала. В общей сложности альбом записан на 10 языках.

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По словам лидера группы Лявона Вольского первоначальная идея состояла в том, чтобы записать альбом народных белорусских песен, но исполнить их не как фолк, а в каком-нибудь современном жанре. Позже Вольскому в руки попал сборник с народными песнями европейских стран и ему показалась интересной идея записать альбом европейских народных песен исполненных на белорусском языке.

29 ноября 2010 года в студии интернет-портала TUT.BY группа Крамбамбуля в своём часовом живом выступлении представила публике большинство песен из своего готовящегося альбома. 19 декабря в Белоруссии прошли президентские выборы, которые закончились акцией протеста и задержаниями. Через некоторое время в стране появился негласный «чёрный список» деятелей культуры, в который попали люди, так или иначе выразившие поддержку политическим заключённым. Из музыкантов в «списке» оказались: Ляпис Трубецкой, Палац, Крама, N.R.M., Нейро Дюбель, Naka, Змитер Войтюшкевич и Крамбамбуля. В связи с этим был отменён запланированный на 17 марта концерт Крамбамбули в минском ресторане «Госці». Там заявили, что концерт не состоится поскольку музыканты заболели. «Может быть, я не совсем здоровый на голову, как и все в этой стране. Однако на здоровье не жалуюсь и, наоборот, нахожусь в хорошей вокальной форме», — так прокомментировал эту ситуацию Лявон и в день отменённого концерта специально посетил этот ресторан. В то же время работа над новым альбомом затянулась, поскольку Вольский решил делать второй диск, на который записать те же песни, но уже на языке оригинала.

Новый альбом вышел в свет 27 декабря 2011 года в двух вариантах: на одном диске и на двух. Первый диск включает в себя 12 народных европейских песен исполненных на белорусском языке. На альбоме присутствуют песни Хорватии, Франции, Германии, Италии, Польши, Швеции, Словакии, Ирландии и Литвы, а также три белорусские песни. На втором диске эти же песни исполненные на языке оригинала. Незадолго до выхода альбома группа представила видеоклип на первую песню «Гэта ня ветразь». Концерт-презентация нового альбома должна была состояться 11 февраля в минском клубе «RE:Public», однако концерт был отменён. Крамбамбуля перенесла презентацию в Вильнюс, которая прошла в конце апреля. Одну песню вместе с Крамбамбулей исполнил литовский музыкант Андрюс Мамонтовас.

Ирландская народная песня «Whiskey in the Jar» широко известна не только в Ирландии, но и в мире. В разное время на неё было записано большое количество кавер-версии, в том числе такими группами, как Thin Lizzy и Metallica. По слова Лявона Вольского название альбома отсылает именно к этой песне. В её тексте есть выражение «dum a doo dum a da», которое никак не переводят, даже если песню исполняют на английском языке. Считается, что эти слова означают стукающиеся друг о друга стаканы. Таким образом, по версии Лявона «драбадзі-драбада» это как бы белорусская версия этого выражения (по аналогии также с «напіўся ў драбадан»).

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Участники записи
 Лявон Вольский — вокал
 Павел Третяк — гитара, мандолина, ситар, акустическая гитара, программинг
 Олег Гарус — гитара, бэк-вокал
 Алесь-Францишек Мышкевич — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал
 Сергей Штендер — ударные, перкуссия, бэк-вокал
 Константин Карпович — тромбон, бэк-вокал
 Родослав Сосновцев — труба, бэк-вокал
 Андрей Бобровко — запись, микширование, мастеринг
 Аранжировки — Крамбамбуля

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Альбом был хорошо встречен критиками. На сайте Experty.by его средний бал 8 из 10. Отмечалось, что этим альбомом группа выходит на новый уровень своего развития. При этом альбом критиковали за обилие гитар и слишком тяжёлый звук, что по мнению некоторых обозревателей плохо соотносится с народной музыкой. На euroradio.fm альбом назвали попыткой культурной интеграции с Европой, через знакомство с песнями друг друга.

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 Рецензии на альбом на сайте Experty.by
 Рецензия на альбом на euroradio.fm

Альбомы 2011 года
Альбомы Белоруссии
Альбомы на белорусском языке
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SYDNEY: Shattered Australian players comforted each other Friday as they considered how to move forward after the death of Phillip Hughes, with a decision on next week's Test with India on ice.
The cricket world was plunged into mourning when the talented left-hander died Thursday after being knocked unconscious by a ball in a domestic Sheffield Shield game in Sydney this week, sparking an outpouring of sympathy and support.
The entire Test team was summoned to the Sydney Cricket Ground and emotions were raw.
"I suppose the starting point is they are grieving, and they've lost someone that is incredibly close to them," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland told a media conference.
"I think there is enough that we understand about grieving processes to know that it's really important to give people time, and people will respond in different ways to what they're going through.
"Six or seven days is not a long time, but right now with where we all are, it seems like a million miles away," he added, referring to the opening Test in Brisbane which is due to start next Thursday.
There are growing fears that the game will be called off with the players in no fit state. It remains unclear when Hughes' funeral will take place.
Four of those named in the Test squad — David Warner, Brad Haddin, Shane Watson and Nathan Lyon — were on the field when Hughes collapsed after being hit at the base of the skull by a Sean Abbott delivery.
Captain Michael Clarke was a close friend of the stylish left-hander and was at his bedside almost continuously, supporting the player's family.


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Kara laughed again–quietly, but still loud enough that several people turned to look at her.
Talulah's deep, black eyes narrowed suspiciously at that, but she continued talking anyway.
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Edge Hill University have withdrawn from the Carnegie Challenge Cup ahead of their Preliminary Round tie against Pennine League champions Sharlston Rovers, who now have a bye to the First Round of the competition.
The Student Rugby League Super 8 side were due to play Sharlston on February 4 but have cited difficulties fielding a team and Sharlston will now face the winners of the tie between Elland and Castleford Lock Lane away on February 18.
Sharlston officials moved quickly to request a league fixture and have been given a home tie vs Queens. League From this week onwards league kick offs are now 2.30pm.


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Mark A. Roth, Ph.D. - Class of 1975
During his four years at Fenton, Dr. Roth was a member of the Glee Club, Choir, and the National Honor Society.
After graduating from Fenton in 1975, Dr. Roth went to the Illinois Institute of Technology where he received his bachelor's degree in computer science. He continued on to the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. There he was a distinguished graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps and earned his masters degree in computer systems. After receiving his master's degree, Dr. Roth's first assignment was as a programmer and analyst on the Theater War Exercise, a computer-assisted theater-level wargame. Dr. Roth completed his doctorate in computer science from the University of Texas.
Dr. Roth's computer science career has spanned over 25 years. He is the author of 20 professional publications and 12 technical reports.
During his free time, Dr. Roth volunteers at his church in various positions such as Choir Director and Youth Group Counselor. Dr. Roth resides in Nebraska with his wife Cheryl, who is also a Fenton class of 1975 graduate, and their three children David, Gary, and Julie.
Dr. Audrey Wagner - Class of 1945
Dr. Audrey Wagner graduated from Bensenville Community High School in 1945. While in high school Audrey was a member of the Student Council, the Girls Athletic Association, the Glee Club, and the bowling league.
At age 15, while still attending high school, Dr. Wagner was chosen to play in the All American Girls Baseball League. This is the same league that was immortalized in the movie "A League of Their Own." Dr. Wagner won the batting crown, set a new league record, and earned the title of Player of the Year. She went on to play in the National Girls Baseball League.
While playing baseball, Dr. Wagner attended Elmhurst College where she received her bachelor's degree in pre-medicine. She then went on to the University of Illinois where she earned her Doctor of Medicine degree.
Some of Dr. Wagner's hobbies included earning her private pilots license, photography, serving on the Crescent City Council in California. She was also a professional auctioneer and enjoyed scuba diving.
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Already a major player in the mobile market due to its Android software, Google is looking to ruffle Apple's feathers further by releasing its own-branded smartphone.
According to The Telegraph, the Silicon Valley behemoth is currently in discussions over designing and manafacturing a Google phone that will be released by the end of the year.
The company's Android operating system is already installed in four out of five smartphones worldwide, but so far brands like LG and Samsung have been building the models that run Google's software.
Apple still dominate the majority of the smartphone market - having sold more than 200 million iPhones in 2015 - but Google's hope is that by producing of their own phones, they can close the gap and offer more consistency for consumers.
Speaking to The Telegraph Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight said, "They are concerned that Android is fragmenting, that it needs to become a more controlled platform.
"I think they'll seek to control it more, more like Apple."
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare the incidence and predictive factors of complete atrioventricular block (AVB) and permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) versus surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). BACKGROUND: No data exist on the need for PPI after TAVI versus SAVR in patients with similar baseline electrocardiographic (ECG) findings. METHODS: A total of 411 patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and no prior pacemaker who underwent TAVI with the balloon-expandable Edwards valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California) were matched (1:1) with 411 elderly patients with severe AS who underwent isolated SAVR on the basis of baseline ECG findings. The incidence, reasons, and predictive factors for PPI within 30 days after the procedure were compared between groups. RESULTS: Mean age was similar in both groups (p = 0.11), and the TAVI group had a higher Society of Thoracic Surgeons score (p < 0.001). The rate of new PPI was higher after TAVI (7.3%) compared with SAVR (3.4%), p = 0.014. Complete AVB and severe symptomatic bradycardia, respectively, were the reasons for PPI in the TAVI (5.6% and 1.7%, respectively) and SAVR (2.7% and 0.7%, respectively) groups (p = 0.039 for complete AVB, p = NS for symptomatic bradycardia). The presence of baseline right bundle branch block was the only variable associated with PPI in the TAVI group (odds ratio: 8.61, 95% confidence interval: 3.14 to 23.67, p < 0.0001), whereas no variable was found in the SAVR group. CONCLUSIONS: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation was associated with a higher rate of complete AVB and PPI compared with SAVR in elderly patients with severe AS and similar baseline ECG findings. The presence of baseline right bundle branch block correlated with the need for PPI in the TAVI group.


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Trabelsi, 56, who faced charges of organized money laundering and has paid 100,000 euros ($112,000) in bail, must remain in France and report regularly to a local police station. (File photo: AFP)
France releases in-law of Tunisia's Ben Ali on bail
Published: 12 May ,2019: 12:00 AM GST Updated: 20 May ,2020: 10:52 AM GST
France has released Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, on bail while it considers an extradition request from Tunisia, sources said Sunday.
Lawyers Xavier Nogueras and Marcel Ceccaldi said they had obtained Trabelsi's conditional release "owing to procedural problems", confirming news initially announced by the Tunisian justice ministry.
Trabelsi, 56, who faced charges of organized money laundering and has paid 100,000 euros ($112,000) in bail, must remain in France and report regularly to a local police station, they added.
It was the second time that an appeals court in Aix-en-Provence, southeastern France, had ordered his release from jail in Marseille.
The first time was on March 28, but before Trabelsi walked free, the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor arrested him again based on a February 2017 warrant issued by a Tunisian magistrate.
Tunisia's extradition request refers to a series of convictions in absentia and three 10-year sentences handed down between February 2017 and June 2018 for financial crimes.
A Tunisian prosecutor has accused Trabelsi of "pillaging Tunisian businesses" alongside Ben Ali.
Trabelsi, whose holdings included hotels and an airline, has denied the allegations against him, saying he accumulated his wealth legally.
A leaked US diplomatic cable in 2008 described Trabelsi and his family as a "quasi-mafia" involved in a series of suspect businesses and deals.
The millionaire businessman and brother of Ben Ali's wife Leila Trabelsi left Tunisia in January 2011 when the Arab Spring uprising forced the veteran leader to flee to Saudi Arabia.
Trabelsi and his family flew in a private jet to Montreal to seek Canadian political asylum, a request that was denied twice.
He disappeared in June 2016 just days before he was to be expelled from Canada, and was arrested in southern France in March 2019.
France's hearing of the Tunisian extradition request is expected to be held in June.
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Safeway, TIM Participacoes Among Stocks falling to Annual Lows Thursday
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Nine stocks dropped to 52-week lows:
The share price of Safeway (NYSE:SWY) declined today, reaching and then dropping even further past its previous 52-week low of $15.71 to $14.73. The stock was trading on above-average volume. While trading at a volume of 14.3 million, the stock price has fallen 6.9%. The stock has lost momentum over the last three months, losing $6.31 (-29.2%) from $21.66 on April 23, 2012. The stock is trading at 87% of its 50-day moving average and 77.8% of its 200-day moving average.
While trading on above-average volume, TIM Participacoes (NYSE:TSU) dropped today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low of $22.05 to $21.38. Shares have fallen 9%, trading at a volume of 5.5 million. Over the last three months, the stock has lost $8.14 (-27.4%) from a price of $29.73 on April 23, 2012. The stock is trading at 83.8% of its 50-day moving average and 78.4% of its 200-day moving average.
The share price of Whiting USA Trust I (NYSE:WHX) fell today, reaching and then dropping even further past its previous 52-week low of $10.50 to $8.81. The stock was trading on above-average volume. The stock price is down 15.2% with a volume of 1.6 million. The stock is trading at 52.6% of its 50-day moving average and 52.3% of its 200-day moving average.
While trading on above-average volume, 51job (NASDAQ:JOBS) sunk today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low to $36.11. The stock price has fallen 1.1% with a volume of 152,724. The stock is trading at 81.7% of its 50-day moving average and 73.9% of its 200-day moving average.
The share price of TAL Education Group (NYSE:XRS) decreased today, reaching and then dropping even further past its previous 52-week low of $8.41 to $7.15. The stock was trading on above-average volume. On volume of 621,264 shares, the stock price is down 11.4%. The stock is down over the last three months, having fallen $3.75 (-32.4%) from $11.56 on April 23, 2012. The stock is trading at 76.1% of its 50-day moving average and 72.8% of its 200-day moving average.
While trading on above-average volume, Overseas Shipholding Group (NYSE:OSG) declined today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low to $7.01. Shares have fallen 9.8%, trading at a volume of 590,508. The stock has been going in a negative direction over the last month, dropping $3.53 (-33.4%) from a price of $10.58 on June 19, 2012. The stock is trading at 70.7% of its 50-day moving average and 65.9% of its 200-day moving average.
While trading on below-average volume, Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ:LMNX) slipped today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low to $17.47. While trading at a volume of 131,896, the stock price has fallen 2.2%. The share price has dropped $7.74 (-30.7%) from $25.24 on June 19, 2012. The stock is trading at 78.8% of its 50-day moving average and 78.1% of its 200-day moving average.
The share price of Cellcom Israel (NYSE:CEL) dropped today, reaching and then falling even farther past its previous 52-week low of $5.80 to $5.55. The stock was trading on below-average volume. Shares are down 4.2% and trading at a volume of 388,931. The stock is trading at 83.2% of its 50-day moving average and 50% of its 200-day moving average.
While trading on below-average volume, Ceradyne (NASDAQ:CRDN) fell today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low to $22.90. Trading at a volume of 61,256, the stock price is down 4.3%. The stock has fallen over the last three months, dropping $7.79 (-25%) from $31.13 on April 23, 2012. The stock is trading at 93.2% of its 50-day moving average and 83.3% of its 200-day moving average.


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Book of the Week: Volt, by Alan Heathcock
by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Each week Fiction Writers Review gives away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Michael David Lukas's debut novel The Oracle of Stamboul, and we're pleased to announce the winners: Robinson Stowell, Mary Westbrook, and Suzanne Hebert. Congratulations! Each will receive a signed copy of this novel.
This week we're pleased to feature Alan Heathcock's debut collection Volt (Graywolf, 2011). Stories in this book have appeared in such places as Zoetrope: All-Story, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Storyville, and The Harvard Review. His work has also received a National Magazine Award in fiction, and has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories anthology. Heathcock is currently the Writer-in-Residence for the city of Boise, and a Literature Fellow for the state of Idaho. A Native of Chicago, he teaches fiction writing at Boise State University.
In his forthcoming review of Heathcock's collection, contributor Tyler McMahon writes:
The best collections, for my money, are the ones that work the form to its full advantage, turn its weaknesses into strengths, and make the stories inseparable from one another—greater even than the sum of their parts.
Alan Heathcock's Volt is one such collection.
These stories are not merely chronological episodes adding up to a larger narrative. Nor does a common protagonist neatly stitch them together. Several characters do recur, but the main link between these pieces is Krafton. This fictional town is only a setting in so much as a church is a building—it's better described as a group of people, a community.
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Jeremiah Chamberlin teaches courses on Contemporary American Literature, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Literary Journalism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is also a Contributing Editor for Poets & Writers Magazine. His fiction, criticism, literary interviews, and essays have appeared in such places as Absinthe, Flyway, Glimmer Train, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Vagabond, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the co-author with Eileen Pollack and Natalie Bakopoulos of Creative Composition. Most recently, he is the recipient of a 2016-2017 Fulbright Research Scholarship.
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Tactical Airlift- Caribou Operations: The End of an Era
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This paper is an edited transcript of a seminar that was presented on behalf of the Air Power Development Centre on Wednesday 27 June, 2012.
Good morning all. What I thought I'd do today is give a condensed version of the burst on Vietnam that we gave to the Joint Staff College a week ago, and a condensed version of the Kashmir presentation which we also give out there, and then talk about some of the other Caribou operations of which very few people are aware unless they've actually been involved in those activities. I'll try and cover as quickly as I can the span of the 45 years of Caribou operations.
Following a request from South Vietnamese and American governments, Cabinet resolved on 29 May 1964 to send a flight of six Caribou aircraft to South Vietnam in support of Vietnamese and American forces fighting against the Viet Cong. At this time the RAAF was accepting the delivery of the De Havilland DHC-4 Caribou aircraft and only three had arrived in Australia so far. The next ferry flight was to be terminated in Butterworth, Malaysia, and a newly formed RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam (RTFV) would deploy from there to Vung Tau, which was on the coast south-east of Saigon. Vung Tau would be home for the Caribous for the next seven and a half years.
The unit was formed on 21 July 1964, and the first couple of weeks involved crew familiarization in tactical operations in Malaysia—mainly just the style and configuration of the aircraft. The second ferry flight deployed to Vietnam with three aircraft on 8 August, under the command of Squadron Leader Chris Sugden. A second batch of three aircraft ferried directly from Canada on 29 August, and a further single aircraft in May the following year. That brought up the total complement to seven aircraft and that number was maintained for the duration of the deployment to Vietnam. After a brief settling in period and country familiarization, the first operational missions were flown on 14 August. Two aircraft, one flown by the CO and the other by Flight Lieutenant Lancaster, went from Vung Tau to Tan Son Nhut in Saigon, then flew on to Pleiku in the north and returned. These missions were without incident.
Wallaby Airlines Caribou preparing for take-off past 9 Squadron Iroquois, Nui Dat
The unit was initially billeted on the airfield at Vung Tau, but the conditions there were considered so poor, with noisy equipment operating 24 hours a day, an open sewage ditch running through the middle of camp, and the troops were being quartered in buildings without walls. The entire unit picked up and moved into town, selecting a villa which they rented. As the unit grew in size, other villas were taken over for accommodation. The initial villa that was used by 35 Squadron (at first still known as RTFV), was 'Villa Anna' and that became quite notorious, particularly with the rumours that came back to 38 Squadron at Richmond. The villas were nothing special. Some of them were rat infested and some needed a fair bit of work to get up and running, but at least the unit's members had a roof over their heads, they had walls around, there was no open sewage ditch—and the unit was together.
At first the unit was placed under the command of the senior US officer in Vietnam and this was delegated to the 315th Air Commando Wing. Later, command arrangements changed, so that RTFV came under the 834th Air Division of the US 7th Air Force. Even using the word 'command' here is a little bit confusing, because it was really operational control. We were tasked through the American Air Transport tasking agencies, but Australian officers maintained command of the unit in the true sense throughout its time in Vietnam.
The call sign adopted was 'Wallaby', followed by a mission number. That led to the RTFV being referred to as "Wallaby Airlines" and it quickly established an excellent reputation. It had to develop tactics to minimize the danger from small arms and ground fire. There were quite serious dangers, particularly in the northern regions up in I Corps (said as 'Eye Core') and the northern part of II Corps. The tactics involved transiting at above 3500 feet wherever possible, and remaining at that height until very close to the destination airfield. Only at that stage would the pilot initiate a steep spiral descent and fly a short, fairly steep, final approach to land. The aim of the game was, of course, to avoid providing a no-deflection shot to someone sitting on the ground who wanted to have a go at you.
The aircraft were also most vulnerable on the ground, and so, quick offload tactics were developed to minimize spending time where we were exposed like that. Many of the little airfields into which we operated did not have any gear for loading and unloading aeroplanes. If we were carrying ammunition, food or fuel, or anything else that was palletized, we had the option of breaking the pallet down and unloading it or else speed offloading it. Breaking the pallet down would take considerable time on the ground, making aircraft very vulnerable.
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The fellows developed the technique where they would undo all the straps, put the ramp level, back the aeroplane up at a reasonable pace (with the loadmaster calling the distance to go), then drop it out of reverse into forward thrust and put a bit of power on, and virtually drive the aeroplane out from under the pallet. It sounds a bit tricky and a bit dangerous, but really it was the safest way to do it. The pallets stayed fairly horizontal all the way to the ground and fell flat. The Americans didn't adopt this, but used to just push the pallet over the ramp. It invariably landed on an edge and rolled back, damaging the ramp. And if it didn't damage the ramp, it damaged the load that was attached to the pallet, because it was not being supported by the honeycomb structures that were under the load.
With fuel drums it was a simple case of using a similar technique, but with the ramp down at about 45 degrees. With a bit of practice we could neatly stack 13 fuel drums in a nice line right in the middle of the fuel farm and save any ground handling as well. So these were the techniques that were developed, and they were maintained throughout the whole of the deployment. As a result of that, we suffered very little damage compared to some of the other tactical transport units.
The operations soon settled into a fairly routine basis. Two aircraft operated from Vung Tau into the Delta and Saigon area. One aircraft was deployed to Nha Trang in the lower half of II Corps area, from where it fed the Central Highlands, and the other aircraft deployed to Da Nang, in about the middle on the coast of I Corps. Da Nang essentially serviced I Corps and the aircraft met all the requirements of the airfields in that area, and more in II Corps. In the early days some air delivery activities carried out by RTFV were to areas that were possibly the most demanding and dangerous imaginable, especially up towards the Demilitarized Zone that separated North and South Vietnam—places like Dong Ha, Khe Sanh, Quang Tri and the ancient capital of Hue. In II Corps we operated into all the airfields in the most contested area, from Dak Pek, Dak Seang, Ben Het, Dak To, Kontum, Pleiku, Phu My, Phu Cat, etc.
The detachments at Nha Trang and Da Nang operated on a weekly basis, with a change over from Monday to Saturday. Later in the unit's operations these northern detachments stopped and by 1969 all aircraft operated out of Vung Tau. Four aircraft were tasked Monday to Saturday inclusive, and one aircraft was tasked on Sunday. A standard week for the air crew would be five days of flying, one day of operations officer, and one day off. That rotated, so that there were always crews and aircraft available should a last minute task develop. By 1969 the longest missions that we flew were into the Delta region. These would begin with a 0630 take off and often we wouldn't get back to Vung Tau until after dark, so they were long busy days.
The average sortie length in the Delta (once you got there) could range anything from ten minutes up to about 30 minutes. The transit time was typically about an hour to an hour 20, depending on where you were operating. One particular mission was always most enjoyable as far as we were concerned, and that was the 05 Mission. The reason for that was because we would leave Vung Tau for the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat and then head across to Saigon. From Saigon it was back to Nui Dat, and then to a place called Ham Tan before proceeding up north to support the RAAF's No 2 Squadron, which was based at Phan Rang. The airfield at Ham Tan was next door to an American fire support base where they had 175mm howitzers. The American Army Major who ran the fire support base would meet us with freshly brewed coffee and freshly cooked doughnuts when we took in his mail and passengers each morning. It would have been churlish not to stop for morning tea, so of course we did.
Map of Kashmir
We then proceeded on further north past Cam Ranh Bay and then across from Nha Trang to Dalat, another little airfield in between Dalat and Bao Loc, and then Bao Loc back to Saigon, back to Nui Dat and then home to Vung Tau. In that trip of a morning and evening, from Saigon to Nui Dat and vice versa, we were carrying Australian Army personnel either leaving the country or arriving in. Every afternoon we'd also pick up a bunch of fresh vegetables and things to take to the task force strip which was called Luscombe Field. That was about the only support that we provided to the Australian Task Force while we were there, as we were tactically and operationally part of the US 7th Air Force and not part of the Task Force as were the choppers at 9 Squadron.
Early on in the peace, only two operations were conducted in support of the Australian forces at Nui Dat—Operation Kingston involving 5RAR, and then shortly afterwards Operation Kings Cross. Very few operations were done in support of our own Army. As I said, we did fly the 03 Mission, which was the one that went twice a day from Vung Tau to Nui Dat to Saigon, then back to Vung Tau. There was also the 07 mission, which went directly from Vung Tau to Saigon and back at midday, filling in before the 03 mission flew again in the afternoon. The 02 mission and the 01 mission were flown into the Delta and the 01 was a special that was flown if they needed some extra shuttling done.
We carried everything from fuel to ammo, ice cream and vegetables, and people. A lot of the people we carried were, in fact, Vietnamese, and as the authorization for them to travel on the aircraft was approved at the local level, we really didn't know whether or not any of those on board could have been Viet Cong—we just carried the passengers. Luckily, no one we carried had suicidal tendencies, so we survived. The unit kept going along this way until in June 1966 its name was changed from RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam to 35 Squadron. That number in the RAAF originally belonged to a transport squadron which flew C47s during the Second World War.
At least twice in the history of RTFV and 35 Squadron, we were visited by USAF efficiency experts who wanted to observe our maintenance and operational procedures. This came about because although we were flying only 1.7 percent of the tactical transport missions while having only 1.4 percent of the tactical transport aircraft, we were carrying something like 7 percent of the total passengers and freight being lifted by air within South Vietnam. So we became of considerable interest, particularly the way we operated. In fact, General Westmoreland at one stage asked Australia for another squadron of 12 Caribous, but of course, we didn't have them. We only had 38 Squadron in Australia and 35 Squadron in Vietnam, and the role of 38 Squadron was to feed 35 as well as do all the tactical operations within Australia and New Guinea.
To us, the answers to the questions the Americans posed were fairly obvious. First of all, a squadron's ground crew formed the heart of the unit. They did a fantastic job to provide five aircraft per day, four needed for tasking and one spare should the need arise. Many a time they would start work on a damaged aircraft as soon as we got back and they'd work all night to make sure that it was serviceable the next day. Only then would they go back to their quarters and get a well-deserved rest. As I said, it was those troops who were the heart of the squadron. The aircrew looked for work. Whenever we'd finish the normal 'frag' (the tasking order), we would call up the tasking agency, callsign Hilda in Saigon, and ask if there were any additional tasks on the way home. We rarely flew anywhere empty. We would only refuel to the minimum required to do the mission, plus reserves, which meant that we could maximize our payload for every mission. Teamwork within the unit was what I would consider to be exceptional, and that was from the CO all the way down to the most junior airman working on the hangar floor. Everyone helped out everybody else. Everyone looked after each other and everyone contributed as best they could to the unit effort.
The other thing that worked in our favour was that our aircrew were much more experienced than most American Caribou aircrew in country. All of us there in 1969-70 would have had at least a year or 18 months experience on the Caribou. We were all C Category Captains and we all had flying experience in tactical operations gained in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. That experience accounted for a hell of a lot when it came to operating the aircraft efficiently, knowing the aircraft's capabilities, and how to get the job done. The other thing was that everyone in the squadron was focused on simply getting the job done.
One of the smallest strips was Ha Tien South, right down at the bottom tip of the country, just west of Hai Yen. It was a Special Forces camp and the strip there was less than a thousand feet long and had a 50 foot hill on the threshold. On landing, you had about 50 feet clearance from the jungle on each wingtip. At the end of the strip, you had to do a three-point turn to get around and backtrack. It was strictly one-way operations only, because of the narrowness of the strip at the slow end. Again, we'd carry anything into there, from ammo to ice cream.
In the period that the Wallabies spent in Vietnam, three aircraft were lost and several were damaged through accidents, ground or mortar fire, but were repaired. Only one aircraft was lost totally to enemy action, at a place called That Son up the back of the Delta and only about six or seven kilometres from the Cambodian border. As A4-193 went to land there, the airfield came under mortar fire. As they approached the fuel farm one mortar round went through the left wing, slightly injuring the pilot with a small bit of shrapnel in the cheek. The crew quickly abandoned the aircraft, and the fuel farm and aircraft were destroyed totally. The pilots on that one were choppered out, and Joe Wilson and myself went down the next day and picked them up and brought them home.
One aircraft was lost on approach to An Thoi, which is the airfield on Phu Quoc island just off the South coast, close to Cambodia. The crew was trying to get down in exceptionally bad weather, misjudged their approach and hit the water. The aircraft had to be later destroyed with charges to get rid of it so that it was no longer a hazard. The only injury in that case was the loadmaster when the crash axe dislodged and hit him in the shoulder. There was another aircraft, A4-185, that was lost when it struck a ditch on what was a DZ (drop zone) at a place called A Ro in I Corps. Although it was a DZ, a lot of the airfields we went into were not much better than that. In actual fact, a lot of that aircraft was salvaged and the forward part of the fuselage ended up being used as a bunker by the Americans in the area.
Also, on 19 January 1969 A4-208 came under mortar fire while on the ground at Katum, which was a US Special Forces camp near the Cambodian border in III Corps, just above Saigon. One mortar round landed about 25 feet in front of the aircraft, taking out the main tyres and hydraulics, and peppering the aircraft in over a hundred places. The pilots quickly offloaded the aircraft, along with the loadmaster, and although both pilots had been slightly wounded they managed to limp into the air on flat tyres. Despite having no hydraulics and a few other things, they got the aircraft back to Bien Hoa, which was a major US base just to the east-north-east of Saigon. The aircraft was eventually repaired and returned to the unit.
All the aircraft lost during Vietnam were in fact replaced from 38 Squadron. In that time we lost none of our personnel, although some of them had minor wounds from shrapnel. One of them was down in the Delta where a bullet penetrated the aircraft, shattered on the nosewheel steering wheel on the left-hand side, and peppered the aircraft Captain with small shrapnel to the face. He was replaced by the co-pilot and the aircraft flown back to Vung Tau where he received attention.
Initially, the tour in Vietnam was for six months but it quickly settled down to a tour length of 12 months in duration, and very few personnel did not serve out the full time. Typically during 12 months each of the aircrew would fly approximately 1200 hours. They would complete approximately 2000 operational sorties, with the maximum being 1400 hours and 2500 operational sorties. That's a fairly heavy workload when you look at peacetime workloads back in Australia. From 1971 there was a progressive scaling down of operations in line with the staged withdrawal of American and Australian forces. In June 1971, 44 personnel and three Caribous of 35 Squadron left Vung Tau for Australia. Flying ceased on 13 February 1972 and on 19 February, under the command of Squadron Leader Smithies, the last Wallabies left Vung Tau for Australia after seven and a half years of active service in country. The Caribous were the first in, and they were the last out except for the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) people who were scattered around with the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) forces before that.
Some of the statistics from the period are of interest. A total of 790 personnel served in the unit; 586 of them ground crew and 204 aircrew. During that time the Wallabies flew 81 500 operational sorties, carried 42 000 tons of freight and 679 000 passengers—which is not bad going for the Caribou when you consider its normal load was 30 passengers or 28 paratroopers. That covers the burst on Vietnam.
I now look at some of the other Caribou operations that were carried out. The one in particular that I served on was with the United Nations Military Observer Group India-Pakistan (UNMOGIP). Shortly after partition, the Kashmiris decided that, due to political and religious reasons, they were going to come in on the side of the Pakistanis and take back Kashmir, which the British had allocated under the Indian side of the partition—or that's how it eventually turned out. They managed to push back a fair way until there was a new line of control formed, and UNMOGIP's mission was to patrol the line of control and to observe on that for ceasefire violations etc.
The mission started in 1948 and was still going in 1978 when I was up there. Australians were serving on this mission right from the beginning, with Australian Regular Army observers being involved, and then—during Vietnam and other conflicts—the regulars were replaced with reservists. Air support was provided by the Canadians, but in 1974 they were trying to extricate themselves and in 1975 the role of providing air support to the UN mission fell to the RAAF. The first detachment commander, Squadron Leader Baillie McKenny, was effectively given a bucket of money as an impress and told to go and set it up. Luckily we got a fair bit of information out of liaising with the Canadians, and from that, we ended up with three houses in Islamabad, which is the capital of Pakistan, and four houseboats on Nagin Lake just north of Srinagar in Kashmir. There are actually two main lakes at Srinagar, Dal and Nagin. Dal is actually closer, but Nagin was chosen because it was much cleaner. It was fed by a spring, and although the water around the edges was too polluted to use for drinking or bathing purposes, the water out in the centre was quite suitable for swimming and provided a bit of a distraction during summer.
Let me give you an idea of the area in which we operated. The map of the Kashmir region shows the original border of Kashmir in red. The dotted line which runs around inside the red line marks the line of control or the ceasefire line. The area north and west of the dotted line was known by the Pakistanis as Azad Kashmir, which means 'Free Kashmir'. To the north was a disputed area with China. The triangle represents a disputed borderless area, while out to the right (between the red and the dotted line) is another area which was at that stage under dispute with the Chinese. A more detailed map shows the sort of areas we operated into. Srinagar is located in the centre of the map horizontally, but about a third of the way from the left-hand edge. That's where we were based in summer. During winter we were based at Chaklala airfield at Rawalpindi, just south of the Pakistani capital. To the north of both of these places is Abbottabad, which was in the news not long ago under circumstances which caused a bit of a stir.
Essentially we would fly a milk run each day. If we were operating from the Pakistani side, we would go from Rawalpindi to Kotli, and then across to Punch, down to Rajauri and occasionally down to Sialkot, recover to Srinagar, and then back to Islamabad. If we were operating from Srinagar, it meant going west through the Haji Pir Pass across to Rawalpindi, fly the milk run, back to Rawalpindi and then back to Srinagar. There were two stations. Right up in the Northern Areas is a place called Gilgit, and south-east of there, well down the Indus River valley is a place called Skardu. Still further down the Indus valley is a place called Leh, which we reached by passing over high country around Ladakh and Kargil. The density of the altitude in those areas is extremely high, up around 8500 feet altitude density in summer and the Caribou didn't perform that well in takeoff mode at those density altitudes. We generally reserved those airfields for when an observer up there got sick and we had to go and get them out in a hurry, or there was some other emergency that meant we had to go and support the observers on the ground. We did, however, go into Gilgit and Skardu in the summer months, and I've got some shots later on that will show what it was like flying up through there. Going back to the map for a moment, shown just to the right of centre at the top is K2—the second highest mountain in the world. This gives an idea of what the terrain is like.
While in Srinagar we stayed in houseboats on Nagin Lake. It was very pleasant sitting on the balcony there of an afternoon, Gin and Tonic in hand, looking across the lake to the mountains beyond. On the first range of hills was a fort straight out of the area's rich past. History in this part of the world goes way back to Humayun, Babur and Akbar, the Mughal emperors who claimed descent from the Mongols, and who came into what was then India down through Afghanistan. They were Muslim and they brought with them their Islamic faith, but they were also very tolerant rulers for their times. As a result, there was a blending of Hindu and Islam that can be seen, even now, in the fantastic architecture of old buildings, primarily the shapes and size of pillars, arches and other features.
The main reason we didn't stay and operate from the airfield at Srinagar all year round was because that place could get up to two or three metres of snow in winter. Everyone, including the Indian Air Force's Gnats that were based there, used to pull out during the cold months and head south. We used to winter in Rawalpindi, and quite often we could not get into Srinagar because of the weather. It meant we had to be fairly careful about the met briefs and what we did of a morning. There was nowhere to hangar our Caribou on the airfield, so we were just parked out in the open and the troops worked there to try to clean it up and get it ready.
Haji Pir Pass from the air
I mentioned going through Haji Pir Pass from Srinagar across to Rawalpindi. The photograph above provides an indication of the terrain as seen from the aircraft. We used to sneak through here just above the tree tops at about 11 500 feet. The mountain on the right-hand side went up to over 18 000 feet and the safety height going through there in bad weather is 21 500. Now, the Caribou didn't like that altitude very much, and because we were carrying passengers the aircraft had to be specially fitted out with passenger oxygen. We used to test fly them back to make sure they were all okay to handle the job.
Just to the north of Haji Pir we would be looking down towards a place called Gulmarg, and a little further on was a place called Badamore. Whenever we were flying in this area we were under the eyes of Northern Radar, which was an air defence radar based up in the hills. The controllers there often called us up and asked us what we were doing, and we would tell them we were diverting due to weather etc. We'd fly across and come out over a place called Baramulla, which was interesting because when we broke out of the weather we'd see surface-to-air missiles tracking us, just … keeping in practice. The controllers at Srinagar Metal were fantastic to us, in fact, because if the weather was bad we'd call them up and ask them for a radar fix as we went across Haji Pir and across the border into Pakistan, and vice versa coming back. We'd tune one radio onto them and we could call them up before we got there and ask for a fix. If we followed the direct route and the weather was socked in so that we had to come through at height, 21 500 feet, then we'd call up Srinagar and get them to give us a radar descent down to the airfield. The elevation of Srinagar airfield is about 6500 feet.
Overnight snowfalls had the potential to disrupt flight operations
Rajauri was one of the airfields we used to go into along the line of control. One of the problems with flying into these little strips was that, at low level and low speed, we could get some pretty nasty standing wave effects as a result of the strength of the wind and the height of the hills. We had one aircraft go into Rajauri flown by Grahame Carroll and Johnnie Benjamin, who were the two other pilots up there with me. The Caribou was hit by a standing wave and the G meter went off the clock, causing the skin of the aircraft to go all wrinkly down around the tail. They aborted the mission, went straight back to Rawalpindi and had the aircraft thoroughly checked out. It proved to be okay, but the loadmaster on board wasn't. Because he was getting ready for the landing he wasn't strapped in, and he got bounced around the cargo compartment quite heavily and was severely bruised. That was one of the problems we had. Another interesting place we went to was called Kotli. If you overshot the runway, even just by a little bit, you ended up in a buffalo pond that was situated right at the end of it. In fact, there was an interesting photograph the Canadians had of one of their aircraft sitting in the pond and in need of a gentle tow out.
The missions going up to Gilgit and Skardu flew due north out of Islamabad to pick up the Indus River and follow its easterly course past Sazin, Chilas, Bunji and Silbu, and then on to Gilgit. The ridge lines up there are typically 18 000 feet high and we would be flying at 8500, so weather was a major concern and we had to be very cautious about what we were doing. Just near Bunji is a mountain called Nanga Parbat, which rises 14 000 feet—virtually sheer—out of the valley floor, then tapers off to just short of 27 000 feet. We would fly past that a couple of miles off, sticking to the centre of the valley. We would fly up the valley, with Nanga Parbat virtually in front of us; we would turn left just in front of that to go to Gilgit.
Kargil was another place we used to go to further up the Indus valley, although I didn't fly any missions into there. I did, however, decide to go there by road one day, during the regular changeover of observers at the UN compound there, simply to have a look around. We drove up from Srinagar through a place called Sonamarg, which would have to be one of the most picturesque little spots imaginable. You felt that you could be anywhere in the world—Scandinavia perhaps, or Central Europe. There were beautiful glacial valleys, pine trees, and lovely green grass everywhere. It was a holiday spot for a lot of people coming from southern parts of India during the summer. Going further up towards Kargil we had to pass through a thing called the Zoji La Glacier and the photo below shows the beginnings of it. Each year a bulldozer would be put through to cut a hole across the middle of it and travellers drove on the gravel and the dirt, with water flowing below their vehicle the whole time.
The author standing within the bulldozed section of the glacier
While we were there, we also used to go down to Lahore once a month, to top up with dry breathing oxygen which we needed for our sojourns across Haji Pir and other places. We also used to go down to Delhi once a month, to talk to the High Commission there, and also for message and signal traffic. The only contact we really had with our squadron back at Richmond, on a regular basis, was a phone patch which we used to conduct on the High Frequency radio on the milk run each week. We would get a phone patch from our HF link in Perth, and they'd patch us through to the CO's office so we could have a chat with him. We could let him know how things were going and chase up any extra spares and stuff we needed.
All the logistics were done through Rawalpindi and we had a pretty good working relationship with the Customs there. One of the things I would like to emphasise is that at the working level we had a fantastic relationship with both the Pakistanis and the Indians. We never wanted for support. If I needed anything at all out of Kashmir, I just contacted the base commander at Srinagar and he would make it available, and we had the same co-operation on the Pakistani side of the fence. Politically there was a little bit of a difference, but at the working level (which was all that interested me) it was fine. That concludes the Kashmir bit, but it is only part of the Caribou story.
From 1965 to 1975 No 38 Squadron also had a Detachment A of three aircraft based at Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The crews used to rotate through for a two or three month period, depending on how it went, and some of the crews actually stayed there for a lot longer. One individual stayed for seven months. Eventually, there was a permanent detachment commander, a bloke called Ron Raymond, who was there for several years. The detachment finally finished in 1975, when an Air Transport Squadron was formed within the PNG Defence Force on the granting of independence in that year. The first Commanding Officer of that unit was Stewart McAlister who retired as a Group Captain.
Air Transport Squadron was originally based at Moresby and then moved across to Lae at a later date. In the final years of my stay up there, the squadron was being prepared to move back to Moresby because the airfield at Lae was closed, and they wanted us to operate from Nadzab, which was up the Markham Valley. To operate there would have been horrendously expensive, particularly as they had to build complete facilities on the airfield for us, including refrigerated stores for perishables and all sorts of things.
The detachment in Port Moresby flew all over Papua New Guinea. We had a lot of experience going into some very tight, tricky little airfields, in particular, one called Tapini. There was a col, which you'd descend into, do all your checks and drop the undercarriage gear down, set your flap at 15, then you would come out of the col and fly up the valley. On your right-hand side there was a goat track—it was actually a track that people used to have to use, but it looked like a goat track to us. So you followed the goat track until it turned right. At that point you turned left, and there in front of you was the strip.
Checking an engine of a Caribou during a humanitarian mission in the highlands of Irian Jaya
At Tapini you came in over a cliff and actually landed on the downslope. It was one or two percent away from you, which made it a bit tricky, particularly if you had a bit too much speed onboard. You had to make sure your speed was spot on. You then didn't use reverse but went back to climb power (which was about a bit over half of the maximum power available on the Caribou), because if you didn't you couldn't get up the 14 per cent hill in the middle of the runway. Then you'd get to the top and park across the strip so that the aircraft wouldn't roll back down if the brake slipped. There were many other little airfields that had their own challenges all over PNG, and also in the surrounding islands. The rule was that you had to be up there for at least one detachment before you could operate as an aircraft Captain. There was a particular book we used to carry with us on the aircraft which specified every airfield that we were going into, the technique of getting in, the dangers, the hazards and the technique for getting out.
There were also several survey missions run up there where 38 Squadron's Caribous supported Army Survey while they were doing a lot of remapping of the Papua New Guinean mainland. The maps up there were notoriously bad and even when we were up there in 68-69 we used to have maps which we would amend by hand. As well as PNG, we had another aircraft providing support for a survey mission remapping of West Irian and Sumatra. The aircraft actually operated out of West Irian, and later out of Palembang close to the southern coast of Sumatra. There were other missions flown in PNG to provide relief after drought, famine, floods, tsunamis, etc. It was invariably 38 Squadron deployed there, and it was invariably the Caribou that provided the tactical transport support.
As well as that we supported every Army battalion during its workup period before going across to Vietnam, and that took up a fair bit of time. The deployment rates were quite horrendous. In my own particular case, out of the first 18 months, I was on Caribous I spent just under 14 months deployed in Papua New Guinea, at Rockhampton supporting battalion workups, or at Leigh Creek supporting other exercises or with Army survey of the Northern Territory. We had an aircraft based at a place called Daly River Mission and previously across in Arnhem Land and we were providing tactical transport support to the Army survey who were remapping those areas.
So, all in all, the Caribous had a rather fantastic history. The technology they represented was essentially not much more than Second World War, and their engines became very hard to maintain in the end, because of the lack of availability of spares. Yet when you look at the range of operations that were conducted with this aircraft type over its 45 year life with the RAAF, the Caribou really did a fantastic job. We gave it a good send off up at Townsville when it was finally retired in 2009. That concludes what I have to say this morning. I haven't covered every aspect of Caribou operations, but I've tried to give you a broad brush picture of probably two of our most demanding deployments, plus another which was probably equally as demanding so far as the dangers of flying were concerned. So, thank you all very much.
End of an era. The Caribou served the RAAF for 45 years
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Author: Connor, R. J.
Title: Tactical airlift [electronic resource] : Caribou operations : the end of an era / Group Captain R. J.'Chuck' Connor.
ISBN: 9781920800697 (ebook : pdf, epub, kindle)
Subjects: Australia. Royal Australian Air Force.–History.
Caribou (Transport plane)–History.
Airplanes, Military–Australia–History.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975–Participation, Australian.
Dewey Number: 358.4430994
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