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An early aviation pioneer, Paulis Appuhamy, who obtained his pilot's license in 1953.
Suvi Wijayaratna So in August that year when a middle-aged Ceylonese named Paulis Appuhamy turned up at the flying club at Ratmalana Airport south of Colombo, he was something of an anomaly. Dressed in traditional attire including a sarong, his hair long and bundled in a traditional knot called a konde he spoke no English - but he wanted to learn to fly. Something about Paulis must have caught the attention of the duty flying instructor, who took him for an introductory flight in a Tiger Moth before passing him on to two flying instructors who spoke Sinhalese, Captain C.H.S. Amarasekera, and Captain Susantha ('Sus') Jayasekera.
Paulis Appuhamy owned a business, a bus line inherited from his father that he had developed into a thriving operation. He may not have fitted the social clique of the flying club (which had doubts about a non-English speaking local learning to fly) but he had the passion, financial means, technical skills and determination to do so. On October 5, 1953 he earned his Private Pilot license.
Paulis flew for a further two years, maintaining his license until sometime in1955. His health later deteriorated and he passed away in 1973. He was perhaps the first pilot to learn to fly in a sarong and use bare feet on the rudder bar; the first to challenge through tenacity and personality the social prejudice about what constituted ‘a suitable member’ of a flying club in Sri Lanka at the time.Paulis learned to fly in a Tiger Moth but around 1953 the club also acquired a de Havilland DHC-1 ‘Chipmunk’ . Paulis took his son on pleasure flights in the club aircraft and once got lost in the Chipmunk, landing at the Puttalam (Palavi) airfield and causing some consternation when he was overdue at Ratmalana. This route heads up to Puttalam but as there is no landing strip there in FSX or FS9, I cut inland to land at Sigiraya airport. I used the default Cessna 172 rather than load another aircraft into my system, but there are Chipmunks available in the Flightsim library.Sashika Seneviratne මෙම මහත්මයාට "කොන්ඩ පයිලට්" කියල තමා කියන්නේ.. මොකද ලංකවේ පලවෙනි පුද්ගලයා, ගැටගැසූ කොණ්ඩයක් එක්ක ගුවන් යානයක් පදවනු ලැබුවේ. තම වැඩිමල් පුතුට රත්මලාන ගුවන් යානා ගොඩ බස්සනු පෙන්වීමට ගොස් ඇතිඋන ආසාවක් මත යමින් අවසානයේ ගුවන් නියමු බලපත්*රයක් ලබාගැනීමට සමත් විය. විනොදාන්ශයක් ලෙස ගුවන් යානා පදවනු ලැබූ ඔහු, එවකට ගමේ පන්සලේ තිබු නේත්*රා පින්කමට පවා ගුවනින් මල් හෙලීම ඔහු විසින් සිදු කරනු ලැබුහ.
ගම සහ පදිංචිය අත්තනගල්ල, සියනෑ කෝරළය, ගම්පහ දිස්ත්*රිකය. බක්කි කරත්තයක් පවා සුපොකබෝගී අයිතමයක් වූ කලක "සිරිමැදුර ඔමිනි බස්" සමාගමේ හිමිකරු මොහුයි. ව්*යාපාරික මෙන්ම කාර්මික දැනුම මැනවින් හිමි ඔහු එකල අත්තනගල්ල ප්*රදේශයේ සිටි ධනවත්ම පුද්ගලයන් අතර කෙනෙකු විය.
අවාසනාවකට එවකට සිටි අග්*රාමාත්*ය වරයාගේ ජනසතු කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවල යටතේ පෞලිස් අප්පුහාමි නැතිනම් සිරිමැදුරේ රාළහාමිට හිමි ඔහුගේ ප්*රධාන ආදායම් මාර්ගය වූ බස් සමාගම කිසිදු වන්දි මුදලක් නැතිව රජයට පවරා ගන්නා ලදී.....Last edited by 88gee; 07-07-2014, 05:20 AM.
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A VERY RARE IMAGE
Air Lanka Boeing 707 9Q-CBW
Boeing 707-329C
MSN 20200
Air Lanka (SCIBE Airlift Zaire)
December 1988.
MORE IMAGES : http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16244432
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Originally posted by 88gee View PostA VERY RARE IMAGE
Air Lanka Boeing 707 9Q-CBW
Boeing 707-329C
MSN 20200
Air Lanka (SCIBE Airlift Zaire)
December 1988.
MORE IMAGES : http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16244432
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Originally posted by 88gee View PostA VERY RARE IMAGE
Air Lanka Boeing 707 9Q-CBW
Boeing 707-329C
MSN 20200
Air Lanka (SCIBE Airlift Zaire)
December 1988.
MORE IMAGES : http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16244432
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