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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…
1998 PTAR – Full Result
1998 President’s Trophy Air Race Held at Tempe, Bloemfontein – 13 to 15 June 1998 Total Distance: 693.30 Nautical Miles Pos Race No A/c Reg Aircraft HP H/Cap Knots Gain(-) Loss Speed Knots Pilot Navigator Province Club 1 19 ZS-LJG Cessna C170B 145 113.2…
1998 PTAR – Trophies
1998 President’s Trophy Air Race Tempe – Bloemfontein 13 to 15 June 1998 Trophy Name Awarded to Race A/c Reg Pilot/Navigator Aircraft President’s Trophy The Competitor gaining most time on Handicap 19 ZS-LJG Johan Dorfling/Flip van der Merwe Cessna…
Lewis Lang Trophy for Pilot of the Year – Nigel Hopkins
In 1996 Nigel Hopkins flew for the first time in a SAPFA Rally Championships together with his navigator Dale de Klerk. He won some of the Regional Championships in 1996 and for his first attempt at the SA Championships he became SA Champion. With this performance he…
Johan Swart – Paul Tissandier Diploma
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Paul Tissandier Diploma Johan Swart Johan Swart has been active in the sport of rally flying since he obtained his private pilot’s license in 1976. He is, for the past 4 years, the Secretary of the South African Power…
1987 BMW OFS Rally
1987 BMW OFS Rally Tempe – 26 September 1997 On Friday afternoon the organisers Messrs Dr Fontanel, Dup du Plessis and Kassie Kaselman were worried men, and rightly so as the weather was low cloud as far as the eye could see – the rains, as yet, had not…
1987 BMW Eastern Province Rally
1987 BMW Eastern Province Rally Port Elizabeth – 22 August 1997 Scheduled for Saturday 22nd August, the Eastern Province Rally drew a respectable number of entries – 29 in all. The locals assured us that the weather in Port Elizabeth had been…