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Children’s Flight 2020 – More “G’s” Less Cheese
Very few people in the aviation community would have thought that anther Children’s Flight would be on the cards for 2020. Not after the...
Garth Calitz
Nov 11, 20206 min read


Paramount pioneers Robotics and Engineering learning for South African Air Force youth development
Paramount Labs, the research and innovation division of the Africa-based global aerospace and technology company, Paramount Group, in...
Garth Calitz
Nov 10, 20203 min read


Breakfast Fly-in at Jack Taylor Airfield
The members of Krugersdorp Flying Club must have woken with heavy hearts on Saturday morning when they saw the nasty weather that had...
Garth Calitz
Nov 3, 20202 min read


Scully Levin flies “The Best Kept Secret”
On a sweltering Wednesday morning, Scully Levin accepted a long-standing offer from Hilton Wolff’s to fly his PAC MFI-17 Mushshak at...
Garth Calitz
Nov 3, 20203 min read


Young Blood for the EAA leadership
President Benjamin Franklin once stated, “If you want a job done properly, give it to a busy man”. The EAA South Africa National body...
Garth Calitz
Nov 3, 20203 min read


AIFA to close Oudshoorn Base
The Global COVID-19 Pandemic has claimed yet another aviation victim and sadly this will have a major impact on the small Karoo town of...
Garth Calitz
Oct 27, 20202 min read


FlyGear - Make an Aviators Year
As the festive season looms in what was a year most would like to forget its time to start looking around for those gifts that will end...
Garth Calitz
Oct 27, 20204 min read


Celebrating 25 years of RV-8 Magic
Way back in 1970 Richard “Van” van Grunsven had the vision to create an aircraft that was not only affordable but could be built and...
Garth Calitz
Oct 13, 20203 min read


Aero Club Celebrates a Centenary of Recreational Flight
By Rob Jonkers There is a sense of achievement on reaching a Century, on all manner of occasions it calls for a celebration, subject for...
Garth Calitz
Oct 13, 20203 min read


Gauteng Regional Gliding Championships 2020
Magalies Gliding Club based at Orient Airfield played host to the Gauteng Regional Gliding Championships from 19 to 26 September. The...
Garth Calitz
Sep 29, 20203 min read
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