Spoke101

Hey Stretch, the town store closed a few years ago.

You were spot on: Aviation: The Group owns and operates a fleet of aircraft for private and charter use, and employs an in-house crew of 10 people. The Aviation Department contracts services from Execujet for aircraft management and maintenance with oversight from Josie van Niekerk (Head of Aviation) and Dean Smith (Chief Pilot). The fleet consists of: Bombardier Challenger 850 – ZS-ZORBombardier Challenger 601 – ZS-SGCHawker Beechcraft Premier 1 – ZS-SRUAgusta 119 Koala – ZS-ZAMBell 430 – ZS-RTZ

Defiantly should get my eyes checked. The missing winglets should have been a dead giveaway the it wasn't a Honda. Impressive sleuth work by the way.

Yip, defiantly a Honda. I tried to find the tail number but to no avail.

I flew out of King Shaka on Thursday night and as we arrived a Maybach was leaving so I took a little walk down the terminal and came across this. I could not make out the tail number but defiantly ZS-.....

Firefox

Baby sitting this little guy.

Optical illusion as the center spoke goes to the oposit side of the hub as the two outer spokes. I'll second Morph and say originals.

I found the flight levels a little odd, on the A380 we were at FL410 but on the 777-300er only FL360 I did check service ceiling and both are FL430. Any reason why the 777 would be flying so low?

I'm sure I read about that somewhere. We felt nothing, but then it was also an amazing day over the alps and the sky looked like a chess board with all the contrails hanging around, so it could have been there for a few mins before we went through it.

A few months ago on a A380 from DXB to CDG we flew slap bang through the contrails of another jet at 90° it was quite something to see vortex coming off the wing. We also had a little drag race with a private jet (I couldn't make out exactly what) but we lost.

and a terrible job of it.

Reports are that it was in fact the water tanks on the roof that broke and not the pool.

10 were brought into SA USN have 2/3 if memory serves and one is a Brabus version! I know someone who has been lucky enough to drive one of them.