Pilot Profiles

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Oct 30, 2019
5 min

Laurie Kay – The Man, The Legend

As we sit on the eve of yet another Springbok Rugby World Cup Final one can’t help but to cast your mind back 24 years to the iconic flyp...

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Garth Calitz

Oct 15, 2019
9 min

Chuck Yeager - Chasing the Demons for 72 Years

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager stepped inside the Bell X-1,72 years ago on the 14th October 1947, when he stepped out he carried the title...

1,103 views

Garth Calitz

Sep 11, 2019
9 min

Lydia Litvyak – First Female Fighter Ace

Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, affectionately known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians e...

1,053 views

Garth Calitz

Aug 20, 2019
10 min

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 d...

1,299 views

Garth Calitz

Jul 9, 2019
6 min

Bob Hoover – The Best Stick and Rudder man to have lived

Robert Anderson "Bob" Hoover was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 24, 1922. He like many other pilots did not have oodles of cash ...

1,241 views

Dennis Russell

May 21, 2019
3 min

Frederick Wendall Glover- Unsung Fighter Ace of WWII

Freddie “Needle Nose” Glover was born on 4 December1915, a native of Asheville, North Carolina. Shortly after his high school graduation ...

1,039 views

Mandy Whitecross

Apr 2, 2019
4 min

“Back to Life, Health and Flying” – Gary Whitecross’ Journey

Gary Whitecross has always been fascinated by flying and at the age of seven started flying model aircraft he quickly progressed to singl...

1,978 views

Garth Calitz

Feb 5, 2019
13 min

Charles Lindbergh Aviator, Adventurer and Innovator

Charles A. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902, and spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota, and ...

1,006 views

Neville Ferreira

Jul 24, 2018
3 min

Neville Ferreira and The Genpro- Reaching new Heights

3:45 in the morning and I am woken up by the sun shining through the hotel room window in the 45° roof above my bed. 9:40pm you are still...

1,440 views

Adam Lusher

Apr 23, 2018
8 min

Amelia Earhart, More than Just a Downed Aviator

In 1960 an old US coastguard told a curious reporter a tale he had heard some 14 years before on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro. Not lo...

733 views

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