Garth Calitz Nov 8, 202312 minFairey Rotodyne The Largest Gyroplane To Ever Take To the AirFrom the late 1930s onwards, considerable progress was made in an entirely new field of aeronautics in the form of rotary-wing aircraft....
Garth Calitz Oct 10, 20234 minEdgar Schmued the Man responsible for the P-51 Mustang DesignEdgar Schmüd was born in Hornbach, Germany, on 30 December 1899. His father Heinrich Schmüd was an Austrian, so Edgar inherited Austrian...
Garth Calitz Oct 3, 20232 minThe Great Train Race 2023 – Heidelberg AirfieldBy Garth Calitz In 1930, a Bentley Sportsman Coupé beat France's Famous Blue Train in a race from Cannes to Calais. This great feat is...
Garth Calitz Aug 31, 20233 minSAAF Celebrates 75 Years of Helicopter Operations By Duncan Gillespie Photos by Andre Venter This past Saturday, 26 August 2023, saw the annual gathering of surviving members of the South...
Garth Calitz Aug 31, 20233 minConvair F2Y Sea Dart – The First and Only Supersonic SeaplaneThe Sea Dart began as Convair's entry in a 1948 U.S. Navy contest for a supersonic interceptor aircraft. During the time, there was much...
Garth Calitz Aug 16, 202317 minHistory of the de Havilland Aircraft CompanySir Geoffrey de Havilland, the founder of the de Havilland World Enterprise, one of the first global manufacturing companies, was one of...
Garth Calitz Aug 9, 20232 minSAAF Museum Monthly Flying Training DayBy Dian Townsend It's hard to believe that we've reached August already, but with a new month also comes another flight training day at...
Garth Calitz Aug 9, 20235 minWWII Ladies of the Air - Air Transport AuxiliaryThe Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up during the Second World War and headquartered at White...
Garth Calitz Jul 12, 20236 minAir Battle Over Niš – The Only Documented Military Battle Between Russia and The USAIn one of several dozen documented episodes of World War II classified as friendly fire, American troops mistakenly attacked a Soviet...
Garth Calitz Jul 5, 20239 minTupolev Tu-144 - The Most Successful Failure in Aviation HistoryIt is December 1968, and a truly ground-breaking airliner is about to take its first flight. It resembles a giant white dart, as...
