Heart of Glass
Instrumentation is the pilot’s connection to their place in the sky. Without it, you might as well be flying blindfolded. By Chris Buchanan Images: Aeronautical Aviation Veteran Concorde Captain John
Airline Profitability Outlook Improves for 2024
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced strengthened profitability projections for airlines in 2024 compared with its June and December 2023 forecasts. An aggregate return above the cost of capital,
Talk Show with Scully Levin I Robin Coss
Scully Levin talks to South Africa’s RV maestro Robin Coss about keeping the Van’s brand alive in South Africa and the diversity in the range of this sought after aircraft.
Airlines learn patience in constrained Airbus-Boeing duopoly
With the latest Boeing crisis, airlines are staring down more delays, a familiar problem in a market in which both the US giant and rival Airbus face supply chain constraints.
Cape Winelands Airport “long overdue”
Scully Levin chats to Cape Winelands Airport executive director Mark Wilkinson about why Cape Town aviation will benefit from the new airport being developed at Fisantekraal. By Paul Ash If
Virginia Airshow a winner!
The Aero Club of South Africa’s annual awards too place in the Master Power Technologies Hangar at rand Airport on Saturday 25 November, recognising the achievements and service to general
Video – The state of SA flight training
While flight schools are seeing their busiest period in many years a number of challenges exist in pilot training, particularly for local candidates that threaten the potential supply stream into
Making aviation fuel from biomass
MIT researchers are converting the plant material lignin into hydrocarbon molecules that could help make jet fuel 100 percent sustainable. Nancy W. Stauffer|MIT Energy Initiative In 2021, nearly a quarter
Windhoek Airport Flight Disruptions
Ground handling service provider Menzies was evicted from Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport (WDH) on August 19 and replaced by Paragon, leading to several flight disruptions. By Tatenda Karuwa, Simple
State of general aviation in SA
General aviation in South Africa faces a dichotomy of high growth and success in certain sectors and limited growth with underlying threats in others, as was revealed in the panel
Watch – Women in aviation
Celebrating Women’s Day, Smoke On…Go! caught up with Deputy Chief Pilot and First Officer Air Ambulance at NAC, Philile Mdletshe. Philile’s thirst for aviation started at a young age and
Watch – Insurance for pilots, by pilots
Aircraft insurance is a complex and fairly innovative sector of general aviation, and Montblanc Financial Services has emerged as a provider that followed their corporate clients into the aviation insurance
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