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 →
Pratt & Whitney Canada is celebrating the accumulation of a billion hours on its PT6A engine in the 60th year of the engine’s production. The company says more than 64,000 PT6s have been produced since 1963, accumulating more than half the hours flown by all the P&WC engines. The totalRead More →
February 2023 – The poor quality of African accident investigation reports is once again in the spotlight. THE FALLOUT FROM THE TWO Boeing Max crashes has been enormous – not just in the 346 lives lost, but in the inestimable damage to the once proud Boeing reputation for engineering excellence.Read More →
I am now 60 years old, so I am out of Part 135 operations. However, there is still some fire left in the hearth and so there may still be some sparks which I could offer to the Part 121 side of the aviation industry, if required. IT WOULD BERead More →
Aden in 1987 was like a crumbling museum of British Colonialism. The British Empire east of Suez had died some twenty years previously, with the arrival of the Russians, who had been invited by the ‘Front for the Liberation of Socialist South Yemen’, ‘FLOSSY’, for short, to fill the newly-vacatedRead More →
THE CHINA EASTERN BOEING 737-800 crash has prompted a mass of disinformation from the internet. These range from duplicitous videos which only at the end say that it was not another Boeing Max crash, to outright deceit with fake videos from other crashes – most notably the Silk Air 737-300Read More →
The financially embattled Air Tanzania has announced an order for four new Boeings: a 787-8, a 767-300 Freighter and two 737 MAXes. The order, valued at more than $726 million at list prices, was previously listed as unidentified on the Boeing Orders and Deliveries website, pending the announcement of theRead More →
Capt. Karl Jensen – To have flown the Boeing 747-400 is a privilege beyond description for any dedicated aviator and any report on this aircraft can only be a list of superlatives. I FLEW BOEING 747S of all marques (Classics 747/200 – 300 – SP and Combi) for 27 years,Read More →
Autoland – Hearing about it is one thing – seeing it work is awesome. Vision Jet AutolandRead More →
The DHC-5D Buffalo is a medium-weight, fixed-wing, two engined tactical transport aircraft. It can carry forty fully equipped paratroopers or a couple of 4x4s in the cabin and it can chuck them out of the back all in one go. THE BUFFALO HAS QUITE extraordinarily short takeoff and landing capabilityRead More →
