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South African Air Force

	Angola: SAAF Bushwacks Six Helicopters
		Flying from Cuito towards south-east, however, the pilots could find hardly any orientation points: in fact, except for few rivers that part of Angola is almost featureless, with trees and huge expanses of sparse forrest — interspersed by savannah — reaching up to 30 meters high.
		The SAAF commanders determined that the most suitable aircraft at hand was the Impala: it was a small and highly manoeuvrable aircraft, with good and reliable cannon armament and the endurance needed for an intercept of this kind.
		SAAF Impalas were camouflaged in the standard Dark Earth and Dark Olive Green colours used also on SAAF SA.316 Alouette III and SA.330 Puma helicopters, as well as some other aircraft.
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_183.shtml (4827 words)

	South Africa - Air Force Equipment
		The establishment of the SAAF was greatly facilitated by the extremely generous decision by the Imperial Government in 1919 to allocate to the Union some 100 aeroplanes from its war stocks, complete with spared and equipment.
		The unit was renamed the SAAF Regiment on 1 August 1943, its task being the defence of airfields and the capture of enemy aerodromes.
		The Central Flying School at Dunnottar was moved to AFB Langebaanweg and Renamed Central Flying School Langebaanweg in 1993.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/rsa/saaf-history.htm (8009 words)

	Bases of the SAAF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Originally based at Dunnoter, the Central Flying School moved to Langebaanweg in December 1992, with 80 ANS moving in after the closing of AFB Ysterplaat Detached at Cape Town IAP during 2003.
		The SAAF commenced vacating the base in 1999, with the intention of leaving only the SAAF Museum behind and thus the base is now known as 'Swartkop', an extension of AFB Waterkloof.
		On the 1 July 1950 the Air Wing became the Independent Air Administration and Staff School and on the 7 December 1951 it was renamed as the SA Air Force College.
	www.saairforce.co.za /bases.htm (1034 words)

	Indonesia
		On October 21, in Central Sulawesi, a man on a motorcycle fired at a house being used for prayer meetings by a Christian congregation; the owner was injured.
		A Central Kalimantan government regulation stipulates that returning Madurese be: able to live side by side in peace and harmony with community members; be recognized and received by the indigenous population as well as local community members; and obey the values, customs, and traditions of the local culture.
		On November 24, the central government and provincial authorities reportedly agreed that the two provinces would function as a single cultural, economic, and social entity, and that their partition would be strictly administrative; however, at year's end the matter remained under discussion among the central and provincial governments and the MRP.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61609.htm (19648 words)

	pilottrain
		It has been reported that several fl SAAF generals boycotted a "wings" or graduation parade at the Central Flying School near Cape Town in December because no fl pilots graduated.
		Rolt said the SAAF was committed to transforming the racial profile of its pilot corps.
		He said a number of pilots came into the SAAF during the integration process from the previous non-statutory forces (mainly Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the defunct military wings of the ANC and PAC respectively).
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/01/10/southafrica/PILOTTRA.HTM (496 words)

	African Mirages
		The Zairean Mirage-crews were trained with the ECT 2/2, at Dijon, but completed in Zaire, and the type became the mainstay of the FAZ in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
		By the mid-1980s all of its delta-winged fighters should have been in storage and the unit was flying only Impalas, expecting to receive Cheetahs in the late 1980s.
		Another units flying delta-winged Mirages with SAAF were the No.5 Squadron and No.89 Combat Flying School, albeit for a very short period of time.
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_198.shtml (988 words)

	Delta Flight School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Central Flying School SAAF - The Central Flying School is a flight school of the South African Air Force.
		The school is part of the Portland Public Schools district.
		Slowly, however, she becomes comfortable at the Green Meadows School, an educational center for children with developmental disabilities.
	de64.medibat2001.com /deltaflightschool.html (803 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		Ronald Maseko, the SAAF spokesperson, was reacting to the Beeld newspaper asking who would accept responsibility for the pupil pilot's death on Saturday during a solo navigation training flight.
		Everyone at the flying school knew it was only a matter of time before a fatal accident was going to prove the point," Beeld quoted the colleague as saying.
		Ramaiti was one of four trainee pilots from the air force's Central Flying School at Langebaanweg sent to Bloemfontein last week for navigation training.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,101864,00.html (451 words)

	Attendant Delta Flight School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A younger sister, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953 at the Green Meadows School, an educational center for children with developmental disabilities.
		As the film follows the two young men attempting to achieve their disparate goals, it also examines intraracial conflict in a school divided into warring camps: the light-skinned Wannabees and the Skull and Bones society.
		Bush is the second person to become U.S. president whose father was also president (John Adams, the sixth, were father and son); Bush's father, George H. Bush, was the 41st President of the rich and idle, malicious gossip is as de rigeur as owning twenty pairs of Manolo Blahniks.
	de64.medibat2001.com /attendantdeltaflightschool.html (1143 words)

	SAAF News Archive: 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the war, Rogers accepted a permanent commission in the SAAF with the rank of captain, and in 1951 and again in 1953 he served with the SAAF's 2 Squadron in Korea as a fighter bomber in Mustangs and F86 Sabres.
		The SAAF is currently drawing up the requirements for a new presidential jet to replace the Flacon 900 which recently broke-down in the UK, leaving President Thabo Mbeki to hitch a lift to the US on another privately owned plane.
		Due to the severe budget problems the SAAF is experiencing as a result of its operations in Mozambique, all scheduled shuttles (Flossies) between the major bases have been cancelled with effect from 19 April until further notice.
	www.saairforce.co.za /news00.htm (4989 words)

	85 Combat Flying School
		The name 85 Combat Flying School was given to the Unit in 1982.
		Due to the demands on the existing Impala and Mirage flights, ministerial approval was granted to establish a new flying school that would take over the role of the Mirage Flight.
		On 1 July 1986, 89 Combat Flying School was established and 85 Combat Flying School became solely responsible for all Impala combat training in the SAAF.
	www.af.mil.za /bases/afb_makhado/85cfs.htm (521 words)

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	www.blinkbits.com /wikifeeds/CE?from=3900 (218 words)

	The SAAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was years afterwards that the SAAF began to realise its need for the preservation of its historical aircraft, as was happening abroad.
		The future of the flying element is still under investigation and a number of options exist to ensure that a number of aircraft are kept flying.
		The SAAF Museum at Swartkop is the largest military aviation museum in South Africa.
	www.saairforce.co.za /museum.htm (2430 words)

	South African Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This expanded the number of military aircraft in the SAAF to 1,709 by September 1941, with a personnel strength of 31,204 (956 pilots).
		During the war, the SAAF played a major role in North Africa, where its fighter, bomber and reconnaissance squadrons enabled the allied desert Air Force to attain Air superiority over the Axis Air forces by the beginning of 1942.
		The headquarters of the SAAF are situated in Pretoria.
	south-african-air-force.iqnaut.net (667 words)

	Central Flying School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Construction of the airfield began in 1942 and was originally developed to counter the German and Japanese submarine threat, though its first role was a bomber O.T.U. The first aircraft landed at the base in February 1946 and in 1947 flying training began on Harvards and Venturas.
		The first Vampires (first jet aircraft in the SAAF) arrived in October 1952 and the Advanced Flying School was founded.
		In December 1992, 83 Jet Flying School and 7 Squadron were closed and the Harvards returned to Langebaanweg after the closure of CFS Dunnottar.
	www.af.mil.za /BASES/afb_langebaan/cfs.htm (364 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Sports
		Born on 21st November 1939 at Vaddukoddai, Jaffna, he studied at Jaffna Central College, and excelled as a versatile sportsman.
		Although Athletics was his forte, "Vyra", captained Central College Jaffna Soccer Team in 1959.
		Vyravanathan was the officiating starter at the SAF Games 1991 and SAAF Athletic Championships held in Colombo in the year 1998.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/11/29/spo04.html (897 words)

	BRING BACK THE CACTUS AIR FORCE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The central aspect of this grand tactical dimension was the decision to integrate air and ground operations at the army level.
		Flying WW II piston-engined F-4U Corsairs, against little threat from enemy TACAIR thanks to USAF air superiority, and enemy Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) the marines strafed and bombarded Chinese positions in the hills overlooking the line of the 1st Division's retreat.
		In the case of the ARES, the flying surfaces, including much of the wing, all of the canard, elevators, ailerons, vertical fins, and rudders are full polystyrene foam cores with either gliep or graphite/epoxy (grlep) facings.
	www.combatreform.com /a10cactusairforce.htm (17012 words)

	Roulettes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central Flying School formed its first official aerobatic team in 1962, the Red Sales, using De Havilland Vampire jet fighters, but lapsed before reforming for a short time as the Telstars in 1962, then as the Telstars again for just two months in 1968, this time flying the Macchi MB-326 jet trainer.
		Towards the end of the 1980s, the Roulettes flying hours had to be reduced as the RAAF MB-326 fleet developed premature metal fatigue problems and a replacement aircraft type was investigated.
		All members are senior flying instructors except for the seventh, the commentator and ferry pilot for the spare aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roulettes (853 words)

	Edwards, James F. "Eddie": Bio
		Unfortunately, the bombers made the mistake of flying at 6,000 feet, the perfect altitude for light Flak, and they lost three, as well as a Kittyhawk pilot for two Me-109s destroyed and one damaged.
		He found that close escort on bombers was more frustrating than flying in the upper or middle layers of the protective escort fighters.
		He champed on the bit when their Kittyhawks in the top-cover were dog-fighting with Germans and all he could do was fly his position and watch the action.
	www.combatsim.com /review.php?id=11 (5035 words)

	Airspeed Oxford
		Oxford Mk I - To produce the Oxford Mk I for the Royal Air Force, Airspeed increased the wingspan, modified the nose and employed fully-cowled Armstrong-Siddeley Cheetah IX radial engines with 355 hp (265 kW).
		The first Mk I flew on 19 June, 1937 and entered service with the Central Flying School in November of that year.
		By the start of the war, about 300 Mk I Oxfords were in service with the RAF, while a number were also being used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force to train pilots for the RAF.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/airspeed_oxford (696 words)

	CCC - Deconstructing the U.S.-Saudi Partnership?
		Strategic Insights is a monthly electronic journal produced by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
		In 1990, the Army's Central Command component, known as ARCENT, established an organizational element in Saudi Arabia to provide missile and air defense in the Kingdom.
		The SAAF depend upon U.S. equipment to defend them and would depend more broadly on U.S. assistance in any major contingency that threatened the Kingdom.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/sept02/middleEast2.asp (1828 words)

	safrica
		I was fortunate enough to fly this aircraft from June 95 to April 97.
		When I stopped flying the aircraft it had only 16,000 hours total time and was in superb condition, however the Memphis Belle decals (which I personally fitted under threat of being sacked if I refused) were not my idea.
		The aircraft was used in a South African TV commercial for Volkskaas bank which I did all the flying for.
	www.douglasdc3.com /safrica/safrica.htm (533 words)

	De Havilland Tiger Moth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Tiger Moth entered service at the RAF Central Flying School in February 1932.
		From the mid 1950s these topdressers were replaced by more modern types such as the PAC Fletcher and a large number of good flying condition New Zealand Tiger Moths passed to enthusiasts.
		Examples are on display at the Mosquito Aircraft Museum in England and in Polish Aviation Museumat the former Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport in Poland.
	www.tocatch.info /en/De_Havilland_Tiger_Moth.htm (602 words)

	43 Flying School Za
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		Flying School and Pilot Training in South Africa.
	www.businessaviationexpo.com /43-flying-school-za.htm (333 words)

	Chicago Tribune \| Business News -- PALS DEVELOP FILE-SHARING SOFTWARE FOR BUSINESSES
		Saaf, then a first-year student at the UCLA Law School, wondered why not use the same kind of software as Napster to transfer files for business, not just fun?
		Almost nine months later, Saaf's idea has turned into InterFriendly.net, a company started by six friends who are betting their careers on an idea called "peer-to-peer networking," also known as P2P.
		P2P software doesn't require a central server, which means it turns any home PC with a modem into a network hub, accessible by anyone who is authorized to use it, from anywhere on the Net.
	www.onsystems.com /anonymous/news/chicago_tribune.html (430 words)

	Amazon.com: "convoy patrols": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In addition, during the Several South African Air Force (SAAF) units flew the Ventura on ASW and convoy patrols between 1943 and 1945,...
		Weather permitting, the squadron continued to undertake convoy patrols, although a slight thaw towards the end of the month caused a new problem as mud was thrown up into...
		The weary hours of readiness, occasional scrambles, some training flying, and boring convoy patrols were our lot throughout the winter of 1939-40.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/convoy-patrols (495 words)

	South African Air Force/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugmag [Archive] - Military Photos
		Nowadays the SAAF is at the beginning of a new era.
		In the early nineties the SAAF started a reorganisation program ("Rationalisation") during which several types were withdrawn from use.
		SAAF and Defence Forces have some fantastic equipment, it's a credit to their country.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-70277.html (3014 words)

	South African Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The collection, permanently housed at the University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries, began more than 20 years ago, long before it was fashionable to collect African art, to preserve for posterity the material culture of the various peoples in southern, western and central Africa.
		Today you can walk around the elegant Moorish-style building, with wide central courtyard, where its implementation began: the restored ‘Bantu Administration’ offices, once the administrative nerve-centre of an infamous system of labour control, is now a historic monument presenting an integrated history of the city.
		This National Monument on the site of the continent's first flying school comprises a symbolic memorial, a reconstruction of the hangar and a replica of the Compton Paterson Biplane used flight training.
	sunsite.wits.ac.za /mus/sa.htm (2141 words)

	FSDome.com - Microsoft Flight Simulator Downloads - Aircraft, Panels, Sounds, Scenery etc
		Fictious airline "Hibiscus Air", fictious registration F-OHWB, for flying at the Pacific Islands.
		Fictious airline "Hibiscus Air", fictious registration F-OHWI, for flying at the Pacific Islands.
		It is owned by The Flying Legends based at the airport of Kortrijk Wevelgem in Belgium.
	www.fsdome.com /library/fs2002aircraft/125.htm (897 words)

	Raafa WA names page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		P000265 CO sp Central Flying School, AFC, Point Cook, 1919-20.
		P000328 CO p Central Flying School, AFC, Point Cook, 1919-20.
		Plane was forced to fly to Africa and then to Turin after hijack in Spain, 29 Hostages.
	www.warwickhughes.com /climate/raafa.htm (11871 words)

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