kosmonooit Posted April 7, 2020 Share So it looks like the blue strip along the fuselage was maintained but they decked out the the vert stab in Orange SwissVan, DJR and Bonus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted April 7, 2020 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted April 7, 2020 Share Just looked at the SAA Museum on streetview and saw this one..... SwissVan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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 Bonus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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 RandThey 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 Bonus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share Wazzit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted April 8, 2020 Share LWB ... what is the issue here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share LWB ... what is the issue here? fr1.jpg Silly pilots forgot forgot where Bloemfontein is? Looks like heading for Bloem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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.... Bateleur1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted April 8, 2020 Share That aircraft if I recall belonged/s s to Phoebus Apollo based at RandThey 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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 Bateleur1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spokey Posted April 8, 2020 Share Wazzit? Wazzit..JPGHorton flying wing, but I forget the model number. There is one in the Smithsonian, Udvar Hazy building at Washington DC airport. SwissVan, Bateleur1 and DJR 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spokey Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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 and Bonus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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 itI saw a national geographic program on it, the Germans built it to try avoid the British radar using plywood over the metal structures Spokey, Bateleur1 and DJR 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted April 8, 2020 Share 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 Kranswurm and Spokey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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