For the aviation fans

[kosmonooit]

So it looks like the blue strip along the fuselage was maintained but they decked out the the vert stab in Orange

 

[Bonus]

So it looks like the blue strip along the fuselage was maintained but they decked out the the vert stab in Orange

 

 

 

There was one of these at Rand Airport - a few years ago I believe it was doing charter trips. Not sure if it still is.

[Bonus]

Just looked at the SAA Museum on streetview and saw this one.....

[SwissVan]

OK I'm trawling through my HDD while we're locked indoors and coming across all sorts of stuff . . . . 

 

These pics are of the support planes that accompanied Obama on his trip to SA back in June 2013. They parked up at Lanseria while Airforce One actually flew into Waterkloof.

 

Awesome pic of the Boeing Globemaster C17

 

My old stomping ground near the falcon parked in the background

 

[SwissVan]

Just looked at the SAA Museum on streetview and saw this one.....

 

That aircraft if I recall belonged/s s to Phoebus Apollo based at Rand

They had a huge fleet of old aeroplanes used for various "contract" jobs in Africa, including the radial engine 747 pictured below

 

At one stage the owner of PA actualy owned Rand Airport after the joburg municipality sold it in the 1990's

[SwissVan]

Wazzit?

 

[Bateleur1]

LWB ... what is the issue here?

 

[SwissVan]

LWB ... what is the issue here?

 

fr1.jpg

 

Silly pilots forgot forgot where Bloemfontein is?

 

 

Looks like heading for Bloem

[Bateleur1]

Silly pilots forgot forgot where Bloemfontein is?

 

 

Looks like heading for Bloem

 

I don't know.  Looks odd.  Normally the past couple of days a 340 or two will go to Cape Town to collect some Germans and take them back up but maybe this pilot does not want to.

 

[SwissVan]

I don't know.  Looks odd.  Normally the past couple of days a 340 or two will go to Cape Town to collect some Germans and take them back up but maybe this pilot does not want to.

 

fr1.jpg

 

Probably training....

[Bonus]

That aircraft if I recall belonged/s s to Phoebus Apollo based at Rand

They had a huge fleet of old aeroplanes used for various "contract" jobs in Africa, including the radial engine 747 pictured below

 

At one stage the owner of PA actualy owned Rand Airport after the joburg municipality sold it in the 1990's

 

 

The tail colour looks right, so could be. Cheers.

[SwissVan]

I don't know.  Looks odd.  Normally the past couple of days a 340 or two will go to Cape Town to collect some Germans and take them back up but maybe this pilot does not want to.

 

fr1.jpg

 

The last flight was on 02 Apr and listed as a Maintenance flight lasting 18 minutes

[Spokey]

Wazzit?

 

Wazzit..JPG

Horton flying wing, but I forget the model number. There is one in the Smithsonian, Udvar Hazy building at Washington DC airport.

[Spokey]

There was one of these at Rand Airport - a few years ago I believe it was doing charter trips. Not sure if it still is.

This is the Vickers Viscount, Rolls Royce Dart turboprop engines. The DC 4’s at Rand had the P and W R 2000 Twin Wasps radial pistons.

 

I flew ZS- PAI briefly, last century!!!!

[SwissVan]

Horton flying wing, but I forget the model number. There is one in the Smithsonian, Udvar Hazy building at Washington DC airport.

 

The yanks stole it from Germany after the war to study it

I saw a national geographic program on it, the Germans built it to try avoid the British radar using plywood over the metal structures

[SwissVan]

Horton flying wing, but I forget the model number. There is one in the Smithsonian, Udvar Hazy building at Washington DC airport.

 

Horten HO 229 or Gotha GO 229

 

Here's the video

 

https://youtu.be/gXP-6jkdOD4