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Welcome to SA Power Flying
Welcome to the SA Power Flying Association, a community of aviation enthusiasts that are passionate about recreational flying in South Africa. If you are bored of the $100 burger or breakfast runs to the same old airfields, then we have great news for you. SA Power…
SA002
The Story of this record Number SA002 Class C (Aeroplanes) Sub Class C1-h (Landplanes: weight 12,000 kg to less than 16,000 kg) Group III (Jet) Type of Record Time to Climb to 9 000m Course/Location Ysterplaat, South Africa Performance 00:01:43 Date 03/12/2005 Record…
SA001 and 2 Thunder City
Very few South African Flying Records had been ratified by an official body. There are a large number of anecdotal records that are bandied about without any of them have been independently verified. After encouragement from the FAI, SAPFA took on the task of…
Aero Club of South Africa – Silver Wings – Paul van Tellingen
Paul commenced his flying career in the SAAF (44 Squadron) and is rated on Harvards, Impalas and Dakotas. He served as the Flight Safety Officer of that unit. After giving aviation a break for a while Paul joined the Cape Aero Club in Cape Town in 1995 to regain his…
SA001
The Story of this record Number SA001 Class C (Aeroplanes) Sub Class C1-h (Landplanes: weight 12,000 kg to less than 16,000 kg) Group III (Jet) Type of Record Time to climb to 6 000m Course/Location Overberg, South Africa Performance 00:01:10 Date 26/11/2005 Record…
EC Precision Flying Championships -2005
EC Precision Flying Championships Held at Uitenhage on 24 September 2005 By Roger Thomas I was quite indecisive and very non committal about entering the Eastern Cape Provincial Precisions competition. After having achieved some taste of success in normal rally flying…
Cato Ridge Rally Flying Competition
Cato Ridge Rally Flying Competition Held at Cato Ridge on 17 September 2005 by Adrian Pilling Barry de Groot and Mary de Klerk, along with their helping team and the crew at the Cato Ridge airfield had been clearly working around the clock in order to bring a…