Some South Africa highlights 2014

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Some South Africa highlights 2014

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Can't complete with the best of 2014 topics, but maybe there is one or two that would find some of these of interest.

ZU-ELP Bell UH-1H Iroquois - flying sightseeing and NAM experience flight out of Cape Town Waterfront.
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ZU-AVJ Hawker Hunter F6A - Thundercity is back in business offering flights at on Hunter, Buccaneer or Lightning.
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N550JU Gulfstream G550 - nice visit of this (at that time) brand new machine
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1002 Boeing 707-370C Iran Government - posted before but always nice with a 707.
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ZS-OXR Let L410UVP-E20 - usually hiding somewhere in Dark Africa but stopped by at Lanseria after service.
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N3RP CL600S Challenger - all the way form the US to be parted out.
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401 C-130BZ Hercules SAAF - out on a test flight after heavy maintenance.
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9Q-CYA Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander - crashed only three day later in Zambia when on its way back to DRC.
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AF-218 Harbin Y-12 Zambia Air Force
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ZS-SVG Beechcraft Bonanza G36 - between the spring flower at the West Coast
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N1141M Learjet 35, rarely photographed visitor from Mauritius
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Interesting shots. Especially the bare metal C-130 is a nice catch!

I will be visiting the east of South Africa in January, traveling roughly Johannesburg - Pretoria - Nelspruit/Krugerpark - Manzini (Swaziland) - St. Lucia - Durban - Drakensberg - Johannesburg.

Do you perhaps have any military aviation related tips (W&R & active)?
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Wonderful shot of the Bonanza :!: :worship:

Any website available of the NAM Experience :?:
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mart wrote:Interesting shots. Especially the bare metal C-130 is a nice catch!

I will be visiting the east of South Africa in January, traveling roughly Johannesburg - Pretoria - Nelspruit/Krugerpark - Manzini (Swaziland) - St. Lucia - Durban - Drakensberg - Johannesburg.

Do you perhaps have any military aviation related tips (W&R & active)?
If you're going to be in the Pretoria/Jo-burg area, Waterkloof and Swartkop are just around the corner..
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Wow, nice shots!
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mart wrote:Do you perhaps have any military aviation related tips (W&R & active)?
For sure not a complete list, but I do have a reasonable amount of W&R locations for South Africa on my site here.
One source for this by the way, is the official SAAF list which can be found here.

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Always a fan of your work, Michael, and this is no exception. Thanks for showing these fine birds in African setting!
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For us, they are all exotic! Good work.

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Mart, when ín January are you there, could probably take you around for a day if you wish. Photos or numbers. If number also a few extra DC3s and an ex. Marshall Islands Gvmt. HS.748 in adition to Erwins awesome list (even included a few around the corner from me that I didn't know about.)
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canberra wrote:Mart, when ín January are you there, could probably take you around for a day if you wish. Photos or numbers. If number also a few extra DC3s and an ex. Marshall Islands Gvmt. HS.748 in adition to Erwins awesome list (even included a few around the corner from me that I didn't know about.)
I will be around from the 10th till the 31st.
Thank you for the kind offer, but taking me round would probably not fall that well with my girlfriend.

I am mainly interested in photos. The SAAF museum at Swartkop is a sure stop, I hope to see some active choppers there as well.
Other than that I hope to visit Rand to see some DC-3's and DC-6.
Last time I was there it was not possible to get a decent shot of anything at Waterkloof AFB, so I not expecting to much of that, although last time I was there there were still a number of C-160's stored in the dirt (I think these have been destroyed?)

A wish is to see one of the Dakota's of the SAAF, I think these are seen every now and then in Durban?
Also I not know if there is anything to be seen around Hoedspruit AFB?

Also a matter of keeping ears and eyes open I guess. :)
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