On 2nd May 1891, the founding commander of the South African Air Force, General Sir Helperus Andreas van Ryneveld – commonly known as Pierre van Ryneveld – was born in Senekal, in the then Orange […]
On Thursday, 16th January 2025, at Dolphin Beach in Cape Town, extreme big-air kitesurfer Lasse Walker performed a world-first stunt by jumping with a kite in the water over a low-flying aircraft with world-wide-known aerobatic […]
On 1st March 1926, a detachment of four Fairey IIID aircraft left Cairo, beginning the first long-range formation flight of the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as the first RAF flight to South Africa. […]
According to some press information and social media posts, the JAS-39 Gripen fighter of the South African Air Force took into the skies again, after a one-year grounding. The first flight after that break was […]
Exactly on the same day when Vladimir Putin, the President of Russian Federation, opened the first ever Russia-Africa Economic Forum in Sochi, a pair of Tupolev Tu-160 ´White Swan´ strategic bombers (NATO reporting name ´Blackjack´) […]
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