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Pat Pattle - The Commonwealth's Top WWII Ace
A young South African pilot has been credited with the honour of “The Commonwealth's Top WWII Ace” but is still relatively unknown as he...
Garth Calitz
Mar 18, 202412 min read


Operation Tidal Wave - Bloodiest Air Battle in History
Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries...
Garth Calitz
Mar 14, 202413 min read


Aérospatiale Alouette III Celebrates 65 Years of Flight
The Alouette III has its origins with an earlier helicopter design by French aircraft manufacturer Sud-Est, the SE 3120 Alouette, which,...
Garth Calitz
Mar 6, 20244 min read


The Lockheed TriStar – The Most Intelligent Aircraft Ever to Fly
By Rob Russell The 1970s saw the beginning of many wide-body designs. The jets almost came to the civil market by default – primarily as...
Garth Calitz
Feb 27, 20246 min read


Fairey Rotodyne The Largest Gyroplane To Ever Take To the Air
From the late 1930s onwards, considerable progress was made in an entirely new field of aeronautics in the form of rotary-wing aircraft....
Garth Calitz
Nov 8, 202312 min read


Edgar Schmued the Man responsible for the P-51 Mustang Design
Edgar Schmüd was born in Hornbach, Germany, on 30 December 1899. His father Heinrich Schmüd was an Austrian, so Edgar inherited Austrian...
Garth Calitz
Oct 10, 20234 min read


The Great Train Race 2023 – Heidelberg Airfield
By 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
Oct 3, 20232 min read


SAAF 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 min read


Convair F2Y Sea Dart – The First and Only Supersonic Seaplane
The 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 31, 20233 min read


History of the de Havilland Aircraft Company
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the founder of the de Havilland World Enterprise, one of the first global manufacturing companies, was one of...
Garth Calitz
Aug 16, 202317 min read
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