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Garth Calitz

Jan 15, 20197 min read

The History of the Rhodesian Air Force

The Rhodesian Air Force was originally formed in 1935 under the name Southern Rhodesia Staff Corps Air Unit and served as a territorial...

The Battle of Kursk – Air Power Domination Won the Day

Garth Calitz

Jan 8, 20198 min read

The Battle of Kursk – Air Power Domination Won the Day

The Battle of Kursk in 1943, 450km south-east of Moscow, could have had a very different outcome if not for the Soviet premier Josef...

The Wright Brothers – It all began 115 years ago

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Dec 18, 20188 min read

The Wright Brothers – It all began 115 years ago

From www.wright-brothers.org "Before the Wright Brothers, no one working in aviation did anything fundamentally correct. Since the Wright...

Garth Calitz

Dec 4, 20184 min read

The History of Hot Air Ballooning

On the 19th September 1783 Pilatre De Rozier, a scientist, launched the first hot air balloon called 'Aerostat Reveillon'. The passengers...

A Higher Calling the story of -Ye Olde Pub

Garth Calitz

Nov 27, 20185 min read

A Higher Calling the story of -Ye Olde Pub

A pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at...

The Vulcans “Mission Impossible” Operation Black Buck

Garth Calitz

Oct 23, 20186 min read

The Vulcans “Mission Impossible” Operation Black Buck

After Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the British government resolved to recapture them. The aging V-class...

Breitling Wingwalkers and The Boeing Stearman

Andre Venter

Oct 9, 20184 min read

Breitling Wingwalkers and The Boeing Stearman

Lloyd Carlton Stearman was born in Wellsford Kansas in October 1898. The son of Fred and Icie May Stearman, who came to Kansas from the...

Andre Venter

Sep 11, 20183 min read

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG- 15

The first turbojet fighter developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB ,was the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, which appeared in the years immediately...

How the Doolittle Raid Doomed the Japanese Empire

Garth Calitz

Sep 4, 20184 min read

How the Doolittle Raid Doomed the Japanese Empire

At noon on April 18, 1942, the citizens of Tokyo looked up into the sky and saw the impossible. Zooming low over the imperial capital was...

English Electric Canberra Altitude Record 1957

Garth Calitz

Aug 28, 20185 min read

English Electric Canberra Altitude Record 1957

On the 28 August 1957 Michael Randrup, Chief Test Pilot of D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and Walter Shirley, Deputy Chief Engineer, climb into...

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