Jannie Matthysen It’s been almost 15 years since my articles appeared in SA Flyer. While I’m astonished at how time flies, it does feel like change has been constant and relentless in my life. In both good and bad ways. The current chapter of my career started when I joinedRead More →
Hugh Pryor Dan joined us in Angola. He was tall, athletically built, with a boyish hair style which sported what we suspected were carefully applied sun tints. His hair also disguised quite successfully his age which was nudging fifty. The Red Cross girls fell for Dan in a big wayRead More →
Guy Leitch The Aviation AFRICA Summit and Exhibition for 2024 was themed “Bridging Skies and Leveraging Growth.” Held in Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre in September, it “exceeded expectations and set new milestones in aviation collaborations and innovation.” With participation from 34 African countries, 1,200 delegates, 92 airlines and operators, andRead More →
Text: Dr J Pons Amongst the many services it provides, White River based Mercy Air flies teams of optometrists to do sight saving cataract surgery across the other side of South Africa – in the Northern Cape. “The powerful Kodiak lifted us to the skies. As the wheels lift off,Read More →
The Nurse’s Congo Ordeal Laura McDermid continues her stories about Iris McCallum in Rwanda. There are certain years in a person’s life that remain emblazoned on one’s memory forever. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that they are imprinted on one’s soul. Those years define us andRead More →
September 11: Food for thought September the 11th, 2001. None of us will ever forget the deep dark horror which penetrated all of our souls as we watched, with an intimacy only made possible by television, ordinary people going through an experience which rivalled the worst brutalities of all-out war.Read More →
There are few greater recent success stories in military UAVs than Turkey’s rapid transformation over the past twenty years into one of the world’s key suppliers, mirroring a huge advancement in the rest of its indigenous defence industry. THE MAIN DRIVER of the success has been Baykar Defence, a well-connectedRead More →
I WAS ASKED THE OTHER DAY by a senior SACAA official why I call it the ‘Commission Against Aviation’. I tried to explain the joke; that one of the roles of the SACAA was to develop aviation. Yet the problem is that the excessive regulation and arbitrary enforcement, coupled withRead More →
