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And their movie spoofs that we didn't get to see / were banned ie Apocalypse Now Clockwork Orange

1) No - walking trails though. Much potential for mtb, if only .. but roads are very quiet. But not for sissies, the big loop. 2) Yes, in GP Are they open now? I am super keen for a ride there.

The head honcho comrades believe we should have our own 3rd world ratings agencies

You won't regret it!

Their ADS-B transponders must be activated when they turn them on for maintenance - often see the likes of the A350 ZS-SDD pop up and then disappear on flightradar24

Freight

If it going to be possible to travel, one would be able to catch quite a bit of action over a few weeks.

This condensed calendar is a once-off if it happens! 2020 Revised World Cup calendar 5-6 September Lenzerheide, Switzerland (XCO/DHI) 12-13 September Val di Sole, Italy (XCO/DHI) 19-20 September Les Gets, France (XCO/DHI) 29 September - 4 October Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic (XCO) – two rounds 5 - 11 October Leogang, Austria, World Championships (XCO/DHI)

Sub should be below 40/50/60 Hz Then for level, start low, increase until you can hear it, then drop it a little.

Depends on the active runway and where they are heading. Emirates, Qatar, Turksh etc that head to the NE will bank and turn to the east / left if they take off on 21, others going to Europe and the US will turn west, They probably turn sooner that normal because there is no other traffic. Unless there is something else up, but I have been keeping a eye flightradar

Also going down memory lane, I saw this giant at the Paris Airshow with Buran (the Soviet Space Shuttle) on top of it, which it was actually built for, it still has the mounting on top of the aircraft for that. I think that was the year that Mig 29 did a nosedive into the ground during a display (hit a bird), the pilot did survive.

Did some trolling on the interwebs - came up with this Wiki: The CASA C-212 Aviocar is a turboprop-powered STOL medium cargo aircraft designed and built by CASA in Spain for civil and military use One was delivered to The Bophuthatswana Air Force in 1985 "The Aviocar fleet as inherited in 1994 from the air wings of the former Bophuthatswana (1, 1985), Transkei (2, 1986) and Venda (2, 1988). It is a short-take-off and landing aircraft with a rough field capability, high wings and a fixed landing gear. The C212 was designed as a C47 replacement and has been called a scaled-down C130. The C212 can take off from fields as short as 400m." https://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/aircraft/26/c-212-aviocar Anyone know how many are still flying here? Also means Spain was sanctions busting back in the day.

Looks like a Short 360 - didn't know we had them? I did spot a C130 on flightradar though And a SAA A340 heading west this morning,

hmmm one thing doesn't look right, the grass is too brown for this time of the year and the recent rains. There is a comment in fb that this was last year for a practice run for the Presidential Inauguration. And its inspired some horrendously racist commentary there. Eina, Its two A340, are they still flying / here?

The Blackbird was phenomenal in just about every aspect - unlikely we will ever see anything like it again.

Yes it was about mid 90's, i was about 200 hours. I learn to nav on cross countries the old school way, actually loved it, it was easy for me. But out over the Kalahari there as few nav aids and just a flat horizon when the batteries ran out. I also had a night rating and fly back from CT once after been stuck there for days with bad weather. ,That was silly. The VOR (or something) from Kimberby was out of service and I wasn't wised up to that (should have been) but managed to tune into some radio signal from Welkom, As we approached GP the moon was rising ... EPIC. That was pre GPS days.

Back in my PPL VFR hire n fly days, I flew to a customers site in the middle of the desert (research station) in a Piper Turbo with my brand new Garmin GPS, the first commercially available GA one. Its pretty pan flat out there so one's nav has to be good since nothing to reference to (except plenty of pans, and the big hole in Jwaneng) and I was doing just fine guided by the GPS when the frigging thing ran out of batteries, and I had not packed spares. It was the first time I was using it on a cross country flight. With one of the pax at the holding the aircraft in a wonky straight and level flight I managed to rig DC power to it from a cigarette light socket, and we made it to Windhoek Eros. The next leg is another story.

Unlikely, there has been a procession of fools running the show, board members etc most of whom stay in circulation thanks to the idiocy of certain policies. One would think this might prompt a reality check but the elite are self serving and live in a make believe bubble.

And where does this leave their Star Alliance partners? Often when checking into SIA flight they had SAA ground crew doing the check in.

I'd say its a lost cause by now as a going concern- one sad example of destructive transformation. But there must be some value in the pilots, SA Technical techs, landing slots at the like of Heathrow, so maybe one of the big players might take those assets and amalgamate them into their own structures, pure speculation though. Most of the management, ground staff and cabin crew I would say form part of the liabilities. Never that that CEO has already been redeployed for more empowerment malarkey elsewhere after taking a convenient early retirement.

He had Mande seeing to his every need

Pilot Yellow up to his usual antics in BC

That is a must! Outside the KSC visitors center they have a bunch of early rockets propped up, including the Redstone (first large American ballistic missile) which was a direct descendant of the V2. One giveaway iss from the engine exhaust, the 4 carbon steering vanes that direct the thrust. And then up the road in inside another building they have one of the last Saturn V's that survived because the Apollo program was cancelled. The scale of this beast is just amazing.

Interesting doccie on the history of the 707

Would if I could ... I am dreaming of a Rond van Suikerbosrand