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American “Top Gun” has a Distinct South African Influence
The United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as Top Gun, has become a success story and was revered as the programme that...
Garth Calitz
Dec 17, 20194 min read


Book Review "Camel Pilot Supreme" Author: Annette Carson
Camel Pilot Supreme Author: Annette Carson Publisher: Pen and Sword While attending the World Aerobatic Championships in France earlier...
Quintin Hawthorne
Dec 10, 20192 min read


Qantas - Third oldest Airline in the World Approaches 100 Years
While South African Airways stares into an uncertain future on the other side of the Indian Ocean Qantas Airlines, the Australian...
Garth Calitz
Nov 20, 201910 min read


Air-to-Air Refuelling – The History
Aerial refuelling, also referred to as air refuelling, in-flight refuelling, air-to-air refuelling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of...
Garth Calitz
Oct 30, 201913 min read


Flying Boats – The Giants of the Skies
This history of world traveller will by no means be accurate if the giant flying boats were not mentioned prominently, before the Second...
Garth Calitz
Oct 8, 201910 min read


The Silver Falcons - Pride, Passion, Precision
The 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
Sep 3, 20194 min read


MiG 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 28, 201911 min read


Woman in Aviation - Leading the Way
August, 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 20, 201910 min read


The B-29 Superfortress - Devastation from the Air
On 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
Aug 6, 20198 min read


The Apollo Programme - Manned Flight to the Moon
The Apollo programme, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National...
Garth Calitz
Jul 17, 20198 min read
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