Garth Calitz Feb 225 minMartin-Baker Ejection Seats - Saving Lives for Over 80 YearsWith a history spanning over 80 years, Martin-Baker is still run by the late Sir James Martin’s descendants to this day. Originating as...
Garth Calitz Feb 153 minEmbraer Bandeirante Celebrates 50 Years of OperationAn icon of regional aviation and precursor of the modern Brazilian aeronautical industry, the EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft today...
Garth Calitz Feb 158 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 Jan 242 minFriendly Fire Incident that Almost Changed HistoryThe course of South Africa, and maybe even World history was almost changed on 31 October 1940. SAAF 2 Squadron Hawker Furies were...
Garth Calitz Jan 174 minBeechcraft Bonanza, Is the "Doctor killer" Tag Warranted The V-tail design gained a reputation as the "forked-tail doctor killer", due to crashes by overconfident wealthy amateur pilots, fatal...
Garth Calitz Jan 107 minERCO Ercoupe – The Worlds First Unspinable AircraftThe ERCO Ercoupe is an American low-wing monoplane aircraft that was first flown in 1937. It was originally manufactured by the...
Garth Calitz Jan 1010 minFlying Boats – The Giants of the SkiesThis history of world travellers will by no means be accurate if the giant flying boats were not mentioned prominently, before the Second...
Garth Calitz Dec 13, 20222 minGeorge Leonard 'Johnny' Johnson, the Last Member of the "Dambusters" Passes AwayThe last surviving member of the original “Dambusters”, Squadron Leader George Leonard ‘Johnny’ Johnson, passed away on 7 December 2022...
Garth Calitz Dec 8, 20226 minHistory of AirmailSpecific instances of a letter being delivered by air long predate the introduction of Airmail as a regularly scheduled service available...
Garth Calitz Nov 2, 20228 min50th Anniversary of the first flight of the Airbus A300On 28 October 1972, the world’s first twin-engined wide-body commercial aircraft, the A300B1 development aircraft, MSN 1, bearing the...
