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aviation
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Plett Airport Is Back: Air du Cap Set To Fly For Season
11 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
With CemAir unable to land, Cape Winelands-based ‘Air du Cap’ expects to be operating and available for both business and leisure travellers flying to Plettenberg Bay from Cape Town and surrounds.
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SA Pilots Ordered To Retake Exams Amid Fraudulent Medical Certificate Scandal Tied To Former Aviation Examiner
11 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Pilots, air traffic controllers, cabin crew, flight engineers, and other aviation staff who were examined by Dr Nonhlanhla Sishaba are being asked to come in for re-examination after it was found she issued fraudulent medical certificates.
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John Travolta “Reeling” After $800K Fraud At His Aviation Company
15 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
John Travolta’s aviation company, Constellation Productions, was defrauded out of nearly $800,000 between October 2021 and July 2023. That’s over R14 million.
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Watch As Yet Another Boeing Aborts Takeoff After Several Tyres Blow
11 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
These days they may as well say “Boeing, Boeing, gone.”
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Passenger Captures Horrifying Moment British Airways Plane Is Hit By Lightning
08 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Although scary, aircraft are struck by lightning once or twice a year.
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SAA Is Finally ‘Cash Positive’ And Looking To Grow Fleet By 50%
05 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
After decades of standing in front of the taxpayers with a begging bowl like Oliver Twist asking “Can I have some more?”, could SAA really be reaching cruising altitude?
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New Luxury Airline For Pups Sued Just Days After First Flight
10 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
BARK Air describes itself as “the world’s first air travel experience designed specifically for dogs first, and their human companions second” but they might have to put a paw on it for now.
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Nail-Biting Footage Of Plane Narrowly Missing Buildings To Make Emergency Landing In Sydney [Video]
28 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Cessna skimmed over two hangars before hitting the runway and grinding to a halt.
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Scientists Explain Why Airplane Turbulence Is Getting More Extreme
27 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
While turbulence fatalities are rare, the overall bumpiness in the air is becoming more frequent, and severe.
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Severe Turbulence Kills Passenger On Boeing 777 Commercial Flight [Video]
21 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
73-year-old British man travelling in premium economy with his wife is understood to have been killed.
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Another Boeing Incident As FedEx Plane Makes Dramatic Emergency Landing [Video]
09 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Boeing’s safety record is going down in flames.
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Second Boeing Whistleblower Dead In Two Months [Video]
03 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Dean was among the first whistleblowers to accuse Spirit AeroSystems leadership of ignoring defects on the 737 MAX.
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With No Rudders Or Flaps, This Bonkers New X-Plane Uses Holes In Its Wings To Hit Mach Speeds
30 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
It sounds like sci-fi, but it’s just the latest mad offering from the US government’s long-running experimental X-Plane series.
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Shocking Video Emerges Of Navy Helicopters Colliding Mid-Air In Malaysia
23 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The footage shows one of the choppers clipping the other’s rotor before both plummet to the ground.
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Skilled Pilots Safely Lands FlySafair Plane With Wheel Damage [Video]
22 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
After take-off, ground staff at OR Tambo reported witnessing what appeared to be damage to one of the aircraft’s back wheels.
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The 2024 SAAF Museum Air Show Will Be ‘A Flight Through Time’
12 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
This event will kick start with one of the Museum’s very own aircraft racing the fastest train in South Africa, the Gautrain.
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Boeing Designed A Weird Plane That Could ‘Suck Up’ Shipping Containers [Video]
03 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Although there are some truly massive cargo planes crisscrossing the sky above us today, there’s always the need to go bigger.
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Private Jet Bursts Into Flames After Crashing On Florida Highway [Video]
13 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Shocking video footage surfaced on Friday that shows a private jet explode into flames after colliding with a car on a Florida highway.
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Keep An Eye Out For The Two Gripen Jets Joining The SONA Fly-By This Afternoon
08 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Adding some gravitas to this afternoon’s SONA spectacular will be two Gripen fighters from 2 Squadron, the premier fighter squadron of the SAAF
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Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane May Have Been Found
30 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were last seen taking off from Papua New Guinea on July 2, 1937.
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Monday Morning Spice
22 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Flames shoot from cargo plane mid-air, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, diagnosed with skin cancer, South Africa celebrates its first UFC champion, Sports Illustrated’s publisher terminates most of staff in mass layoff, and Why are Iran and Pakistan firing rockets at each other?
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Breaking News: SA Airlink Plane Skids Off Runway [Photo]
18 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Embraer 135 Jet had 32 passengers and three crew on board and fortunately, no injuries have been reported.
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Prince Harry To Receive Living Legends of Aviation Award In Beverley Hills Ceremony Hosted By John Travolta
12 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The organisation’s website defines Living Legends of Aviation as “admirable people of remarkable accomplishment in aviation”.
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US Real Estate Agencies Are Offering Houses With Private Runways In Their Backyard
09 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Needless to say, these neighbourhoods are only for those who don’t mind a G650ER screaming past your kitchen window early on Sunday morning.
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Watch This Wild Video Of A Ukrainian Air Force Fighter Jet Making An Incredibly Low Airfield Pass
01 Dec 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The way the jet hugs the ground before soaring back up into the sky is a remarkable show of aviation abilities. But it’s still risky business.
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Retired Flight Attendant Shares The Hidden Hells Of Life In The Air [Video]
10 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A retired flight attendant for Virgin Australia shared a video explaining some of the more gruelling aspects of the job.
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Report Finds ‘Inadequately Trained’ SAA Crew Lost Control Of Plane
21 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
A German report found that a South African Airways flight crew temporarily lost control of an Airbus 340-346 on a commercial flight from Johannesburg to Frankfurt with 259 people on board in 2018.
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Call The Influencers – Amazing Retired Boeing 737 Turned Into A Luxury Bali Villa [Images]
08 May 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s even a jacuzzi with an ocean view in the cockpit.
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Pilotless, Self-Flying Planes Are Coming To Commercial Aviation Sooner Than We Think
09 Mar 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Self-flying planes are coming to commercial aviation, and not in some distant Jetsons future world.
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BBJ, Anyone? John Travolta Gives Us A Tour Of The Latest Boeing Business Jet [Video]
11 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Since there’s nobody better to show off the Boeing Business Jet 737, Travolta kindly obliged with an exclusive video tour of the “BBJ”.
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