Jim Davis Don’t you hate disclaimers? Those notes, in seven languages, that say, “WARNING. Servicing this device in the bath may lead to injury or death.” The word device covers anything from an electric lawn-mower to a vibrator. However, I regret that I must now issue one. Low flying canRead More →
Guy Leitch In strong contrast to the South African Civil Aviation Authority’s obstructionism, aviation history was made when veteran South African airshow performer Milne “CC” Pocock received FAA-approval for the first-ever laser show from an aircraft. CC Pocock was driven out of South Africa by overzealous and overreaching CAA inspectorsRead More →
Ron Wheeldon owns not one, but two, Hunters a single seat J-4059 and the subject of this review, his his two seater, ZU-HUN, an ex-Swiss Air Force T.68, number J-4202. J-4202 was originally built as an F.4 for the RAF and served with 3 and 111 Squadrons plus 229 OCURead More →
Laura McDermid Whenever the annual calendar of events is put together at the beginning of the year, October always seems like a million miles away. And so inevitably the EAA Sun ‘n Fun fly-in arrives far sooner than anticipated. The Spar up the road from where I live is alreadyRead More →
Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McCallum’s early years in East Africa. When the Kenyan Police Air Wing could not fulfil a mission, they would charter Air Kenya. As a result I had the great fortune of discovering remote places like Garissa, Wajir, El Wak and Mandera. El WakRead More →
Jeffery Kempson I stepped out of the Affretair sanctions busting cargo DC-8 at Schipol airport in Amsterdam. It had been a good night flight on the jump seat from Salisbury, with cargo stops at Nairobi, Cairo, and a mid-morning stop at Zurich. I had sent some cargo business Affretair’s way,Read More →
In 1945, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, precursor of NASA and source of much of our knowledge about practical aerodynamics, published a hefty compendium of aerofoil data, NACA Technical Report 824, which later appeared in book form under the title Theory of Wing Sections. The names of the authors,Read More →
Guy Leitch There is a hoary old adage – that you can fool most of the people most of the time. And that’s enough to raise lots of money for screwball ideas. The Pegasus, a VTOL business jet that is nothing more than a computer graphic comes to mind. AnotherRead More →
Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McDermott in East Africa. On the 26 August 1980 I was asked to fly charter clients in the Aztec: 5Y-ARN. This aircraft had a 12-volt battery which often caused me to have serious heart flutters when trying to start the engines. All theRead More →
Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McDermott in East Africa. I resigned from my role as a commercial pilot at Air Kenya at the close of 1979 and in April the following year joined a company called Sunbird Aviation based out of Wilson Airport in Nairobi. The fledgling airlineRead More →
