SA Flyer Magazine - January 2025

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In this issue

SA Flyer Magazine January 2025

HAWKER HUNTER - the Ultimate Personal Fighter!!

• Guy: Best and the Worst of 2024
• Jannie Matthysen – Living in a Trailer Park
• Peter Garrison: Make Aviation Gr eat A gain!
• CC Pocock – FAA approves what the CAA would not!

2024 - Winners and losers

In South Africa it’s been another bleak year. As write this in early December, many people seem to be shaking their heads and wondering what the hell is going on. But in the rest of the world, things are literally going bananas.

7 mins

MAKE AVIATION GREAT AGAIN - IT'S TIME TO TURN BACK.

How wonderful it is to have an incoming president who is, by his own admission, a leading, if not the leading, world authority on most subjects.

4 mins

RIGHT SEAT RULES NO. 25 SLOW FLIGHT

Most of us feel a bit edgy when the ASI creeps down within 10 KIAS of the stall. Jim Davis has some hints on how to be comfortable and in control - even when the airspeed is 20 KIAS below the stall.

10 mins

FLYING THE HAWKER HUNTER

Flying a Hunter starts hours before actually walking out to the aircraft. This machine is a legend, but it is first of all about the highest performance machine that it is feasible for a civilian to fly. Flying it is not to be taken lightly.

10+ mins

RON WHEELDON'S HUNTERS

RON WHEELDON is a Johannesburg based trademark and IP attorney. He writes, \"My love affair with Hawker Hunter jet fighters started in approximately 1963 when the Rhodesian parliament opening was marked by a fly-by of nine recently acquired Hawker Hunters in diamond formation.

1 min

TWINCO FUEL

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT

6 mins

NOVEMBER 2024

November sees strong growth in aircraft registrations with 16 additions, but 10 aircraft are cancelled as exported. The Type Certified additions are a mixed bag.

4 mins

CC POCOCK MAKES HISTORY IN THE USA

In strong contrast to the South African Civil Aviation Authority's obstructionism, aviation history was made when veteran South African airshow performer Milne “CC” Pocock received FAA-approval for the first-ever laser show from an aircraft.

2 mins

LARGEST EVER RHINO RELOCATION

Specialist air cargo operator ACS mobilised all its skills to successfully complete a very challenging project – the translocation of 39 White Rhino from Namibia to the USA.

1 min

AFTERMATH of the Engine Fire

Iris McCallum continues her stories about her early years with Air Kenya. This month she tells us about the immediate aftermath of her dramatic engine fire and crash, and her subsequent 'getting back onto the saddle'.

4 mins

HELICOPTER PILOTS SHOULD UNIONISE

Helicopter pilots are stuck in a 12-month flying cycle. While they will have periods of rest and active rest (performing ground-based tasks and planning ventures) within their work source campaigns, it's not a good situation. They need programmed periods to catch their breath.

2 mins

QUEEN AIR TALES

In the early seventies Esquire Airways acquired a pre-owned Beechcraft Queen Air. This top of the range 8,800 lb MAUW model had nine forward facing commuter seats and I flew it as a single pilot operation for several months.