
AIRBUS A330 TANKER TO COMPETE AGAINST BOEING
The US Air Force wants to buy dozens of new tankers to fill a gap between the last expected deliveries of KC-46As and a future advanced design. Lockheed Martin has

How much does a SpaceX Launch cost?
The mission’s purpose is predominantly marketing for private space travel, and the St Jude Hospital charity fund raiser. The total amount of money spent on the mission remains unknown, but

Take-off performance Series – Part 1 – Rejected Take-offs
In this issue of “Smoke on Go’s” Professional Pilot Series, we start working towards knowing more about the complex subject of “Take-off Performance”. We are aware that most Smoke on…Go!

INSPIRATION4 returns home
The first all-civilian crew of four astronauts includes, a raffle winner, a teacher and an internet entrepreneur and a cancer survivor that inaugurated a new era of privately financed space travel

EOS design and handling with no compromise
The Canon EOS RP will instantly feel familiar to EOS users thanks to a handgrip that is designed to be comfortable for a whole day’s shooting. An optional extension grip

De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk
With the ending of the Second World War, the recently expanded aircraft manufacturing industry was duly concerned. Orders and contracts for military aircraft manufacturing dried up almost immediately, and manufacturers needed

Flying Like a Pilot Possessed
I think it was General Chuck Yeager who said that the most intensively demanding flying was air combat, because in that context another person is using all their skill and

The BEECHCRAFT DENALI
When the Pilatus PC-12 arrived on the scene in May 1991, many asked why this had not been done earlier. The Pilatus offered executive seating, and with the large left

Harvards in action
‘THE FLYING LIONS’ AEROBATIC TEAM The Flying Lions Aerobatic Team is a well-known South African formation aerobatic team. They fly a four-ship aerobatic display using the Harvard. The team operates five aircraft but

Cirrus South Africa
Service and support Cirrus is dedicated to a world class experience throughout the lifetime of aircraft ownership with service and support to help you maintain your aircraft to the highest

Setting new standards in creativity with EOS R
Innovative and packed with state-of-the art features, the Canon EOS R offers the world’s fastest AF at 0.05 seconds. Whether you’re shooting portraits, landscapes, street, travel, weddings or video, the

THE MIGHTY BOEING 747-400 – PART ONE
SOME INTERESTING “GEE-WHIZ” INFORMATION: Over a timespan of almost forty years, South African Airways operated four different variants of the Boeing 747. Three of these types belonged to the “Classic”