Garth Calitz Nov 20, 201910 minQantas - Third oldest Airline in the World Approaches 100 YearsWhile South African Airways stares into an uncertain future on the other side of the Indian Ocean Qantas Airlines, the Australian...
Garth Calitz Oct 30, 201913 minAir-to-Air Refuelling – The HistoryAerial refuelling, also referred to as air refuelling, in-flight refuelling, air-to-air refuelling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of...
Garth Calitz Oct 8, 201910 minFlying Boats – The Giants of the SkiesThis history of world traveller will by no means be accurate if the giant flying boats were not mentioned prominently, before the Second...
Garth Calitz Sep 3, 20194 minThe Silver Falcons - Pride, Passion, PrecisionThe Silver Falcons proud heritage dates back to 1946, at the time the team was named the “Bumbling Bees” and were flying a four ship...
Garth Calitz Aug 28, 201911 minMiG Alley - The Birth of Jet on Jet Dog Fighting"MiG Alley" was the name given by United Nations (UN) pilots to the north-western portion of North Korea, where the Yalu River empties...
Garth Calitz Aug 20, 201910 minWoman in Aviation - Leading the WayAugust, being woman’s month, we decided to pay homage to some of the Ladies that led the way for others to follow in the generally male...
Garth Calitz Aug 6, 20198 minThe B-29 Superfortress - Devastation from the AirOn August 6, 1945, 74 years ago today, an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of...
Garth Calitz Jul 17, 20198 minThe Apollo Programme - Manned Flight to the MoonThe Apollo programme, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National...
Garth Calitz Jul 9, 20193 minA Brief History of Continental EnginesContinental is as much part of the general aviation community’s vocabulary as wings or propellers, Continental have been supplying...
Garth Calitz Jul 2, 20193 minFriendly Fire Incident that Almost Changed HistoryThe course of South African, and maybe even World history was almost changed on the 31 October 1940. SAAF 2 Squadron Hawker Furies were...
