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GYROCOPTERS FROM 1923 TO THE PRESENT
Gyrocopters have become a regular sight at all airfields around the country and at fly-ins, in recent years they have even made their way...
Garth Calitz
Dec 18, 20176 min read


PITTS SPECIAL 70 YEARS AND COUNTING
The Pitts biplanes, designed and originally built in 1944 by Curtis Pitts, dominated all world aerobatic competition in the 1960s and...
Garth Calitz
Dec 4, 20174 min read


PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT
The first head of state or government to receive official and dedicated air transport was the British Monarch. In 1928, two Westland...
Garth Calitz
Nov 27, 20172 min read


VANS RV ……WHICH ONE TO CHOOSE?
You’ve been hiring Cessna 172 or Piper Cherokee for a while. Hire and fly is inconvenient and expensive, and the hire and fly aircraft...
Garth Calitz
Nov 20, 20179 min read


THE 777, BOEING'S BEST SELLING WIDE BODY
The Boeing 777 is a family of long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliners developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes....
Garth Calitz
Nov 20, 20172 min read


THE LAST TWO DOUGLAS DC-6B's
Although there are many DC-6A and C-118 cargo versions in operation around the world, the DC-6B passenger liners were mostly "mothballed"...
Garth Calitz
Oct 30, 20173 min read


De Havilland Dragon Rapide
In late 1933, a team at de Havilland, led by aircraft designer Arthur Ernest Hagg, began working on a new design, intended to be a faster...
Garth Calitz
Oct 23, 20177 min read


Airbus A330-900 successful maiden test flight
The A330-900 first flight on 19 October 2017 debuts the 1,400 hours flight test campaign involving three prototypes plus the first...
Garth Calitz
Oct 23, 20176 min read


The Zlin 50 aerobatics aircraft
The Z-50L is a cantilever low-winged single-engine monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Unlike the Zlín Z 26 series which it...
Garth Calitz
Oct 2, 20174 min read


The Titanium Auto Gyro Explorer
The Titanium Explorer is the first new generation gyro to be manufactured in Australia and a world first using titanium. The idea was...
Garth Calitz
Sep 10, 20175 min read
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