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    Minuteman III: Celebrating a half-century of continuous alert
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Minuteman III: Celebrating a half-century of continuous alert

    By Josh Roth and Eric Fetters-Walp For 50 years and counting, the Boeing-built Minuteman III ICBM has been on the clock in hardened underground silos across the Great Plains — serving with rare distinction and longevity as the ultimate deterrent to an attack on the nation and its allies. For 50 years and counting, the Boeing-built Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, has been on the clock in hardened underground silos across the Great Plains — serving wi
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    Airport Navigational Instrument Calibration Moving ahead at Pace
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Airport Navigational Instrument Calibration Moving ahead at Pace

    Three down and on to the next! SA Civil Aviation Authority gratified with calibration work done to date. With two of the key South African airports’ navigational instruments successfully calibrated to date, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) is pleased with the progress achieved thus far. In total, three sites have been calibrated, and these comprise OR Tambo International Airport’s two instrument landing systems (ILS’s), Standerton’s very High-Frequency Omni
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    Bombardier Global 7500 now with dual HUD
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bombardier Global 7500 now with dual HUD

    Bombardier recently delivered the first Global 7500 aircraft equipped with a dual head-up display (HUD). This first-in-class capability provides additional safety and redundancy to what is already the most advanced and pilot-friendly cockpit in business aviation. “The delivery of the first Global 7500 aircraft with a dual HUD showcases our outstanding commitment to safety,” said Michel Ouellette, Senior Vice President, Program Management and Engineering, Bombardier Aviation.
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    Breezing in a Breezer, One Sexy Little Aircraft
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    Breezing in a Breezer, One Sexy Little Aircraft

    Breezer Aircraft, located in the North of Germany, was officially established in 2006 although they were manufacturing aircraft form 1999. Breezer have always believed in creating aluminium aircraft to the highest possible German engineering standards. The Breezer Stable currently consists of five different variants all specifically designed to cater to a specific requirement. The flagship “Breezer Sport” is one of the best-looking aircraft in its class. The design complement
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    South African Helicopter Operator Manages Locust Swarms in Kenya
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    South African Helicopter Operator Manages Locust Swarms in Kenya

    During March 2020, as the global Covid-19 pandemic began building momentum and South Africa went into Level 5 Lock-down, BAC Helicopters was requested by an NGO to send two Bell 206L-4 Long Ranger helicopters to Kenya to carry out an Emergency Desert Locust Survey. East Africa has recently been plagued by a Desert Locust invasion, wreaking havoc to food security in the region. With the uncertainty brought about by the virus, as well as related travel restrictions, particularl
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    EASA awards Type Certificate for Continental’s fuel-efficient CD-170 engine
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    EASA awards Type Certificate for Continental’s fuel-efficient CD-170 engine

    Continental Aerospace Technologies received the EASA Type Certificate validation for the Jet-A CD-170 engine. The CD-170 engine is a part of Continental’s CD-100 series of engines that have accumulated over 7.1 million flight hours worldwide since its inception. The newly certified Jet-A engine is included in the current type certificate for the already proven and reliable CD-100 engine series. The TC is the first of many certification milestones as Continental plans to apply
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    Leonardo opens new service centre in South Africa
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Leonardo opens new service centre in South Africa

    Leonardo is strengthening the level of support and maintenance services offered to its customer base in South Africa with a new service centre following the recent acquisition of Precision Aviation Services (Pty) Ltd, located at Wonderboom Airport in Pretoria. The new service centre comprises 2275 m² of floor space, 450 m² of workshop/store and an equivalent amount of office space. The site had been operating as an Authorized Service Centre for Leonardo’s helicopters in the c
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    ARJ21 completes special flight test at the highest civil airport in the world
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 1 min

    ARJ21 completes special flight test at the highest civil airport in the world

    The COMAC ARJ21 AC103 completed a maximum take-off/landing height expansion flight test at Daocheng Yading Airport (14,472 ft), the highest civil airport in the world, and returned to Shanghai on July 30th, 2020. After half a month of flight test, the take-off and landing capabilities of ARJ21 aircraft in the environment of a high plateau airport were fully verified, which marks that the operating range of ARJ21 aircraft can cover all the high plateau airports, laying a solid
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    SAPFA Air Navigation Rally– Brakpan
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    SAPFA Air Navigation Rally– Brakpan

    Brakpan Airfield once again came to life after a six-month quiet spell due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the government imposed lock-down that left aviators in South Africa grounded. It came as no surprise that all the available spaces for this Air Navigation Rally were filled within hours of opening. The weather once again threatened to derail plans as the ANR coincided with the arrival of a nasty cold front causing windy conditions when the competitors realised the 20 knot
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    USAF C-130J delivers COVID aid to South Africa
    Garth Calitz
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    USAF C-130J delivers COVID aid to South Africa

    By Trevor Cohen South Africa at the moment is fighting the Corona virus, like many countries around the world. The leadership has taken an opportunity to lead and grow on bold decisions made to completely lose the plot. With corruption at the heart of the pandemic leading the decisions made and those on the front line not having protection while their brothers and sisters are driving fancy German and Italian cars. The United States representatives in South Africa took the ini
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