LETTERS I AM THE CHAIRMAN (Old Bill) of the Moth (Memorial Order of the Tin Hat) Organization in Harrismith and more specifically, the Platberg Shellhole. We are a Charity Organization that focus on the wellbeing of old soldiers, including soldiers from World War 2, the Korean War and any otherRead More →
BOOK REVIEW – DAVE UNWIN As the editor of a number of UK aviation magazines Dave Unwin has flown an astonishing variety of planes. He is one of the world’s best-known aviation writers and an occasional contributor to SA Flyer’s fly tests. DAVE HAS BEEN FLYING since 1985 and hasRead More →
The relationship between pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC) is often fractious. Pilots hate being told what to do – and ATC often has more than enough reason to consider pilots to be idiots. A RECENT INCIDENT AT GEORGE AIRPORT where pilots and ATC blamed each other for an airlinerRead More →
It’s 1940 and scrawny young Sergeant Pilot Nick Carter can be seen in the rear cockpit of an open biplane. He is huddled down against the bitterly cold wind as he flies at 100’ over the freezing surface of the North Sea. He skims the bottom of the wispy cloudsRead More →
Prior to the world losing its marbles over a particular ‘flu strain, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had some interesting stats, that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) concurred with. IT WAS CALCULATED THAT by 2024 around 42% of the entire US Airline Transport Pilot workforce would have retired (pre-madness).Read More →
September 2021 I’D LIKE TO START THIS MONTH with a note that I got from the owner of one of the aircraft that I recorded as exported to the USA in last month’s review: Piper Super Cub ZS-DEH. He writes; “I just read the SA Flyer and saw you mentionedRead More →
A Guillow Jetfire, it was called – and at 69 cents, was about the only aeroplane I could afford at the time. I got it from a bin by the cash register at All Aircraft Parts. It was an attempt to cause my son’s childhood to resemble my own beforeRead More →
November 2021 – I was chatting to a professional pilot and was unsurprised when he said that he was finished with the CAA. HE SAID IS GOING TO MOVE his type certified aircraft onto the American N-register and just not bother screwing around with the increasingly dysfunctional ex-RASA component ofRead More →
(Part Two) In last month’s story, Hugh recounts how he came to be flying far out into the Libyan desert to set up a Magnavox, the forerunner of the GPS receiver. Now he had to get back to their remote camp – and a fearsome Gibli wind was beginning toRead More →
