flying instructor. He was the first PNG national

first PNG national to fly a mili tary aircraft solo. Married with two young children, he is from the village of Dagua, 48 km west of Wewak.

Equipment developed by

Chandra Nair, of Nadi, to cool overheated brakes on Boeing 747 aircraft is being introduced at Qantas bases in many parts of the world. Mr Nair is an air craft maintenance engineer at the Qantas Nadi base. The equipment developed by him more efficiently cools brakes which have become heated to

high temperatures during re

jected take-offs by distributing chilled air across the brake discs from a mobile air condi tioner. The brakes must be cool before the aircraft can take off.

He has been awarded the maxi mum SAIOOO in the Qantas staff suggestion scheme, a re cord. His cooling plant has also been placed on the Boeing company’s register of approved

equipment.

An Australian woman, Dilys Condell, has been appointed by the International Labour Or ganisation as a design expert in Fiji and the Pacific Islands. Her duties will be to provide guid ance and run workshops in bas ketry, weaving and other crafts with the aim of fostering the re vival and heightening the tech nical quality of the indigenous culture in each Island country.

One of the main points she will be stressing is that each object must have appeal both for internal and export marketing.

Ms Condell has embroidered a History of Melbourne incor

porating Aboriginal designs

and twining techniques, and

held an exhibition of her soft

rugged sculpture.

In Australia for a public relations course sponsored by the Aus tralian Government, Miss Marie Hebei, from the PNG Office of Information, and Isileli Kloa, of the Tonga Visitors Bureau.

This is Ms Condell with one of her ‘soft rugged’ sculptures an unusual giant emu’s leg that dwarfed its originator at a recent exhibition In Sydney. Her next objective is to assist Islands crafts.