What used to be the hangar…
OBS! Click the icons on the map!
The tiny little air-conditioned house
where “Don Alberto”/ OCX29 sat and
maintained radio contact with all the
planes, and all the SIL missionaries
that were out in their tribes. He had
check-in at 7:00 AM every morning
on the radio; on frequency 5.340
MHz!
He was an artist, and during the day,
when things quieted down on the HF
radio, he used to paint. Thus the
distinct “oil-painting” smell in this
little shack! Now it was just ruins left!
In a way sad, but on the other hand it
is yet a reminder that “we can’t live
in the past.” It was grate, but now it
is history. And that is OK.
The most nostalgic place of the entire visit!
I think this place on the surface of earth must be the most significant in my life! At least my life
between age 6 and 19. It represented my main interests then and now; aviation and radio. So much
so, that this is exactly what I do today. I fly at work, and have ham-radio as my hobby.
I found it very satisfying that the place (on the outside) looks very much like it did 30 and 50 years
ago. I could vividly for my inner eye see the Evangel, the Helios parked, and the cool and fast looking
Cessna 210R. I have spent countless hours and days hanging around this place as a kid and young
man. Today the main hangar building appears to be used for housing. The runway is dug up into
pools for fish farming by the university on site. As a kid I was finally told that “Kids are not allowed at
the hangar.” Well, I did not take a no for a no, and ended up sitting by the lake-side ALL DAY,
dangling my feet and watching “over the fence.” This did not go un-noticed. So finally they realized
that “that there is no cure for my aviation bug,” and they let me inn again! Wohoooo! :-) It was
really grate to be there again now, after all those years. Fun to show it to my dear wife too!
Interested in the plane Evangel? Read up on it here:
What used to be the hangar…
OK… So you are looking at my web page using a mobile device?
Well, that is perfectly fine. BUT, my intentions with this web site was to
share what I saw through pictures. Click-able pictures and icons that open
up large pictures.
So with your tiny little thing, you are really not going to see nothing!
Sorry!
Please fire up your home / office computer, and visit my page again. It will
be very different. Below, as a teaser, I show some of the pictures that you
can see in “real size” on the desktop version. TNX’s
