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Good news for collectors in 2013
Inflight 200 has produced a
limited edition of the South African Airways Museum Society's Boeing 747SP
ZS-SPC "Maluti".
Only 48 have been made complete with the SAA Museum Society
Logo!
Product Code: IF747SP0113
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British Airways 737-200 ZS-SIR
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Scale Diecast Airliners Product code: IF7320512A
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British Airways 737-200 ZS-SBN "Ndebele
Tail"
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Product code: FLY101 Megamodels product code: MM098
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Viscount Down But that which awaited the civilian passengers and crew on Air Rhodesia’s Flight RH 825 flying between Kariba and Salisbury in 1978 defied any horror that they could have foreseen when a SAM7 missile slammed into the starboard wheel bay and exploded with an almighty bang. With all starboard controls damaged and pressurized fuel lines feeding a raging fire that could not be put out, the stricken plane lurched in the sky and had to be put down fast. On the ground, another terrorist group watched the doomed aircraft plunging toward earth. With communist rhetoric echoing in their minds, they hurriedly fixed bayonets to their AK47s and ran toward the rising plume of smoke. In a cruel twist of fate, the miracle that there were crash site survivors turned into one of the most heinous acts of barbarity known to mankind. When the SAS parachuted into the crash site the following morning, a grizzly scene awaited them. Nearby the wreckage lay the bodies of women, children and babies who survived the crash landing, only to be bayoneted, and shot to death. When Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Matabele faction, bragged in a BBC interview that his ZIPRA forces were responsible, shock turned to anger. The people howled for retribution and demanded justice. Five months later, another Viscount airliner, the ‘Umniati,’ was also struck by a heat seeking missile and turned into a fireball in the sky, plummeting straight down at terminal velocity into a ravine, instantly killing all 59 on board. This is a rare story by a member of the Rhodesian SAS that tells of unrelenting Rhodesian resolve to avenge the Hunyani and Umniati tragedies and the mission to locate and eliminate the Viscount Gang before they attacked more civilian aircraft. It could only be told by someone who was there. I was there – but a mere pawn in the plans of Destiny. For many years, it didn’t occur to me that to leave this story untold would surely be an injustice. For the 107 victims who were killed in these disasters and their bereaved families and friends, this book is for you. |
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COMAIR He then covers the years of Commercial Air Services (Rhodesia) (Pvt) Ltd (1946 to 1960), and the years of Commercial Air Services (Natal) (Pty) Ltd (1946 - current). Two not so well know periods in Comair's history, the training projects for the South Africa Air Force and the Israel Air Force in the late 1940s and early 1950s, are also covered in detail. Great detail is given on the company's maintenance projects, the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam project, the years when Comair operated South African Airways' coastal schedules, the rationalisation of the airline in the period 1976 to 1992 during which the Fokker Friendships, amongst others, were introduced, and the "Game Lodge" schedules. The airline's venture into the
Jet Age in 1992 is well documented as is its association with British
Airways that started in 1996 and the introduction of its low cost brand
Kulula in 2001. An appendix is devoted to the key personnel in the airline's history while the "Stop Press" section keeps the reader up to date with the latest development by means of colour pictures. |
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