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A Brief History of Agricultural Aviation
By Garth Calitz Anyone who has spent time in central Free State or any other agriculturally active region in South Africa has likely...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20253 min read


Operation Manna-Chowhound: The First Airborne Humanitarian Airdrop
By Garth Calitz As the war wound down in Europe, the Allied combined bomber offensive launched a mission of salvation for starving...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20253 min read


NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground
NASA's X-59 has recently completed a significant and pivotal round of tests. These tests are an essential part of the development...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20254 min read


Qatar Airways' Historic Order for up to 210 Boeing Widebody Aircraft
Qatar Airways and Boeing have announced an agreement for the airline to acquire up to 210 widebody aircraft, marking a new milestone as...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20253 min read


Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen3 Second Test Aircraft Takes Flight
Textron Aviation recently announced a significant milestone in the Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen3 flight test program with the successful...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20252 min read


Robinson Unveils New R66 Army Training Helicopter
Robinson Helicopter Company introduced the R66 Army Training helicopter at the 2025 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit (Quad A) in...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20252 min read


RAAF Links F-35 Simulators on Lockheed Martin Network
The Australian Department of Defence, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, has successfully linked F-35 simulators at the Royal...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20252 min read


Bell Announces MOU for US Army’s Flight School Next Industry Collaborators
Bell Textron has entered into Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with V2X, DigiFlight, Delaware Resource Group (DRG), and TRU Simulation,...
Garth Calitz
May 20, 20251 min read


Mpumalanga Airshow Tourism and Parks Agency Airshow 2025
Text Garth Calitz Photos by Trevor Cohen, Dries Beetge and Garth Calitz The Lowveld Airshow has always been a massive draw card for...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20255 min read


Helicopter Fire Fighting on the Night Shift
In addition to search and rescue, marine pilot transfers, and a variety of other charter work, when there are fires to be fought in the...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20253 min read


SAA Admits to Being Attacked by Cyber Criminals
Last week, South African Airways shared that they got hit by a big cyber incident starting on Saturday, May 3, 2025. This breach...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20252 min read


The History of UAC Tupolev: A Russian Success Story
UAC Tupolev is the successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, with the design office prefix Tu), established in 1922 by the...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20254 min read


Bell Celebrates 6000 Commercial Aircraft Built at Bell Textron Canada Centre
Bell Textron Canada Limited proudly announces the completion of its 6,000th commercial aircraft at the Commercial Delivery and Assembly...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20252 min read


Russia Adjudged Responsible for MH17 Downing
The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has said Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20252 min read


Greece Orders Eight Airbus H215 Helicopters to Combat Forest Fires
Airbus Helicopters has entered into a contract with the Hellenic Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection for the acquisition of...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20253 min read


Rolls-Royce to Maintain RAF’s Typhoon Fleet EJ200 Engines
Rolls-Royce has secured a five-year support contract with the UK Ministry of Defence for the maintenance and servicing of the EJ200...
Garth Calitz
May 14, 20251 min read


SAAFM Airshow 2025 – Exposing the Sad Truth
By Garth Calitz Photos by Garth Calitz and Esias Riecket Anyone living in Pretoria will know that the week before the annual SAAF Museum...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20258 min read


Bateleurs Fly Secretary Bird to Safety
A juvenile secretary bird, found starving in the Karoo and rescued in a desperate bid to save its life, has now been safely transported...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20251 min read


Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter Tests Advanced Aerial Firefighting Technologies
Sikorsky, a division of Lockheed Martin, collaborated with Rain, a prominent entity in the fire technology sector, to evaluate innovative...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20253 min read


Qantas Celebrates 90 Years of International Flying
Qantas celebrated 90 years of international flying last month, marking an incredible milestone in the evolution of the aviation industry...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20252 min read


Joby Achieves Testing Landmark with Piloted Aircraft
Joby Aviation recently announced a significant milestone in its aircraft testing program. The company successfully conducted flights that...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20253 min read


Embraer Highlights the KC-390 Millennium at SOF Week
The Special Operations Forces Week (SOF Week) annual conference, scheduled from May 5-7 in Tampa, Florida, marks the third stop of the...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20253 min read


Cirrus SR Series G7+ Featuring Safe Return Emergency Autoland
Cirrus recently announced the new SR Series G7+ featuring Safe Return Emergency Autoland by Garmin, the world’s first FAA-approved...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20254 min read


Garmin Unveils Pilot Web - Free Online Flight Planning Tool
With Garmin's ecosystem now on the web, pilots get some cool flight planning tools and free maps, including the Map tab. This includes...
Garth Calitz
May 8, 20252 min read
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