By Garth Calitz South Africa’s recreational aviation community once again converged on Middelburg Airfield in Mpumalanga as the Aero Club of South Africa hosted its annual Airweek gathering, normally one of the country’s largest fly-ins in the country. This year, the weather had other plans, a combination of tropical moisture and an unstable low-pressure system over the interior created ideal conditions for severe thunderstorms and iclemnet rain, and rain it did. My original

By Garth Calitz On 5 March 2026, one of aviation’s most celebrated aircraft reached a remarkable milestone. The legendary Supermarine Spitfire marked 90 years since its first flight, a moment that helped shape both aviation history and the outcome of the Second World War. Few aircraft have captured the imagination of pilots and aviation enthusiasts quite like the Spitfire. With its elegant elliptical wings, distinctive engine note and superb performance, the aircraft quickly

More than a decade after one of aviation’s greatest mysteries unfolded, the latest deep-sea search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has concluded without success. Despite sophisticated underwater technology and renewed determination, the wreckage of the aircraft and definitive answers for the families of the 239 people on board remain elusive. Flight MH370, operated by a Boeing 777-200ER, disappeared on 8 March 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. C