Articles from July 2009



Tales of the South-West Pacific

Port Moresby (Jackson’s) International Airport, Papua New Guinea Part one of an essay series by Mike Feeney of Hamilton, New Zealand (Nota Bene and Caveat Emptor: This essay is intentionally lengthy, meandering and, at times, digressive. It covers a vast sweep of time from the 1930s to the present day. It reflects on people both [...]

Madang…the Pearl of the Bismarck Sea

A reflective nostalgic item from Mike Feeney, now retired in his birthplace of Hamilton, who recalls aspects of his time in PNG during the 1960s and earlier ’70s. Mike returned to PNG where he spent most of the 1990s engaged in air accident investigation and then airline management. *********************************************************** A background preamble note: The area [...]