American Airlines in August announced that it had agreed to buy up to 20 jets from Boom Supersonic, with an option to purchase 40 more. BOOM’S OVERTURE JETS promise speeds of up to Mach 1.7 over water – twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft, are expected to rollRead 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 →
The Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition is taking place between 21 to 25 September 2022, and will once again bring together aviation suppliers from across the world to South Africa to exhibit the latest technological innovations in the aviation and defence sectors. AAD IS THE LARGEST GATHERING of theRead More →
September 2022 – WHILE THE REST OF AFRICA tries to rebuild its airline route networks following Covid, the Western Cape is succeeding in getting European and US Based airlines to prioritise the Cape Town route – even while they are cancelling other global routes due to airport congestion. The CapeRead More →
By the time this issue is published the South African Air Force (SAAF) will have been without an air combat capability for more than a year. Its fleet of Gripens, the sole fighter aircraft in operation with the service, have been grounded since mid-August 2021 when budget cuts and disagreementsRead More →
Look at me Mummy, I’m up here. That’s where it all started…up there with my head stuck out of the top of a Beech tree. High enough to be beyond reach and low enough to be seen by Mummy and other jealous members of the congregation. A hint of danger..aRead More →
I arguably write an inordinate amount about SAA. The reason is because this once world-class airline provides the spectacle of a Technicolor slow-motion train smash that has cost taxpayers billions. This train smash carries the hopes and dreams of so many of today’s youth, who have the sky in theirRead More →
Kenya Airways (KQ) has agreed to fly cargo for South African Airways (SAA). THE CARGO DEAL COMES at a time the two carriers are in talks to jointly expedite the implementation of common business plans to gain a competitive edge over rivals. The cargo agreement has KQ carry cargo onRead 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 →
SAA looks poised to return to its bad old days of fatal crashes. OVER ITS 88-YEAR HISTORY, SAA has been one of the more dangerous airlines in the world. Compared to Qantas with its famous (but spurious) claim never to have written off an airliner, let alone killed a passenger,Read More →
