Born in the Lowveld of South Africa, Julian apparently started his love of aircraft before he could walk. If he was not talking about aircraft, he was either building them or drawing them. During his compulsory military training, while training on gliders, he helped start the Defense Force Gliding Club at Tempe, Bloemfontain. He moved to Durban and worked in numerous fields of Finance, Real Estate and Construction.
Shortly after the birth of his son, he attained his Private Pilots License.
After moving to in Port Elizabeth, he attained his twin rating.
Julian has written numerous articles for SAflyer and FlightCom magazine since 2012, also while doing reporting on flying events and aircraft.
Presently he is a director in a Metal Recycling and Demolition company, and writes articles and posts for SAFlyer and FlightCom magazines on FaceBook and their Web pages.
The Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is the world’s premier rotary-wing unit. Since the unit’s founding in the early 1980s, the Night Stalkers have participated in almost all of the US military’s special-operations missions and campaigns. The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) is a special operations force ofRead More →
South African Air Force airshow at Ysterplaat AFB, Cape Town photographed back in 1969. The Lockheed Hercules C-130B shown here was operated by 28 Squadron SAAF. The public were allowed inside the aircraft. Notice the four military personnel on top of the ‘Hercules’. C130’s in SAAF service The SAAF C-130Read More →
Smirnykh, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’, Russia The original airfield was built in the early 20th century for the Imperial Japanese Army and was called Keton. It consisted of a 1200 m long concrete runway, gravel taxiways and about 20 equipped aircraft parking lots. ⠀After the Soviet Union regained control over Sakhalin inRead More →
The Cessna SkyCourier turboprop development program has achieved another significant milestone. WICHITA, Kan. (Sept. 29, 2020). The third and final flight test aircraft (P2) successfully completed its first flight on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. This maiden flight for the high-wing, large utility aircraft comes on the heels of the second test articleRead More →
The Lockheed Martin CATBird is a highly modified Boeing 737-300. Designed as an avionics flight testbed aircraft, the name is an adaptive acronym, from Cooperative Avionics Test Bed; coincidentally, CATBIRD is Lockheed’s ICAO-designated company call sign. The aircraft was modified in order to provide an economic means of developing and flight testing the avionics suite for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. Read More →
Boeing has not had it easy for the last couple of months, with the grounding of the 737 MAX, the latest 787 Dreamliner manufacturing faults and the COVID-19 pandemic slowing aircraft sales to a trickle compared to former years, late 2019 and 2020 to date, have not been memorable. However,Read More →
It is a known fact you can improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft by reducing drag. Have you ever looked at birds in flight and wondered why their wings bend up at the tips, or the feathers flair out. The intended effect is to reduce drag by partial recovery of the tipRead More →
There’s nothing nice about being branded the ‘world’s most useless airport,’ and after four years of successful operations and barely a cancellation, Saint Helena Airport still struggles to shake the label. The world’s most useless airport? After 500 years of isolation, four years ago, Saint Helena finally got its veryRead More →
Over a hundred years ago, Captain Carlo Piazza climbed onto his spindly Blériot XI and made military history. On October 23, 1911, Captain Carlo Piazza climbed onto his spindly Blériot XI and made military history by spying on the enemy below. At the start of the Italo-Turkish War, the ItalianRead More →
