Elon Musk’s timeline for SpaceX landing humans on Mars has wavered over the years. On Sunday, he said 2026 will be the year to send a crewed mission to Mars. In 2017, he said 2024. Space industry experts believe SpaceX will reach Mars, but not as soon as it hopes.Read More →
Tuesday, 3rd of February, 1959 (62 years ago) A Beechcraft 35 Bonanza, operated by Dwyer Flying Service, Inc, registration N3794N, flying from Mason City Municipal Airport, Iowa, to Hector Airport, North Dakota, impacted cornfield terrain while on initial climb in bad weather conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, USA. The aircraftRead More →
Text Garth Calitz. Images Trevor Cohen and Garth Calitz) Very few people in the aviation community would have dared imagine that even the indomitable Felix Gosher could pull off his extraordinary the Children’s Flight in 2020. Nonetheless, Felix inspired his team to once again share the joy and thrill ofRead More →
(BOOK REVIEW by PETER GARRISON) From time to time I find myself in the study of some aficionado of aviation – former Flying Magazine editor Stephan Wilkinson, for example – admiring the cargo of his bookshelves. Many a volume that I would like to sit down with on a rainyRead More →
(Book Review). A long-awaited book that has been released in time for Christmas reading and as a treasured gift is Scully Levin’s biography: Punching Holes in the Sky. Scully is a living legend in South African aviation. His achievements would fill a book – and so he has. As a bright-eyed kid fromRead More →
“The Greatest Pilot Of The Greatest Generation“ (February 13th,1923 – December 7th, 2020) Seventy-nine years to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbour, famed test pilot, World War II ace, and the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, died atRead More →
South African National Parks (SANParks) celebrates Captain David Simelane “Blackhawk”, South Africa’s first black game capture rated pilot. On 2 December 2020, Simelane completed his game capture rating, as an endorsement on his helicopter pilot license. Simelane has been a helicopter pilot for 16 years and has flown all overRead More →
Vincent Reffet 1984-2020.French extreme sports athlete Vince Reffet has died after a jet suit training incident in the desert near Dubai. The 36-year-old was the second person on the planet to fly Yves Rossi’s Jetman flight suit. The Jetman team announced Reffet’s passing today with a short FaceBook post; “ItRead More →
We at SAFlyer and FlightCom magazines now have a Doctor as an editor. A huge congratulations to our editor and publisher Guy Leitch on graduating today as a Doctor of Philosophy in Management of Technology and Innovation – Thesis: Air connectivity conceptual models to address the allocation of resources toRead More →
Top Gun was released in 1986, and cemented Tom Cruise’s status as a movie star, while wowing audiences with its thrilling jet fighter real-life action scenes. The movie spotlighted military aerial combat in a way that no movie ever had before. It’s no wonder that even over three decades later peopleRead More →
