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1 Air
Service Unit: A State Asset That South Africa Can Depend On
Self-reliance
plays a key role in any large-scale operational environment.
The South African Air Force (SAAF) enjoys the services of
many huge sections, but the design and manufacturing
services (DMS) in the aircraft organisation ....
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Chief Of
Air Force Communication Forum Turned Out To Have A 2010
World Cup Soccer Flavour
It was with
great excitement that the Air Force Office, Air Command Unit
and South African Air Force (SAAF) HQ Unit personnel engaged
in supporting the 2010 Fifa World Cup. ....
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The
Windsock
Working at
Swartkop Airfield has definite benefits. This is not only
because the base is the oldest and most historic in the SAAF,
or the best looking, or because it boasts some of the most
unique aircraft and equally ....
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Acting CAF
Speaks To Carte Blanche
The acting
Chief of the South African Air Force (SAAF), Maj Gen Job
Ngema, on 31 May 2010 reassured the crew of the digital
satellite television (Dstv) programme, Carte Blanche, that
from the SAAF perspective ....
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17
Squadron Bestows To Charity
Giving to the
less fortunate, particularly to children, seems to be the
most natural thing for the 17 Squadron team. The Squadron
held an outreach programme on 14 May 2010 at Swartkop
Airfield, near Valhalla ....
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SAAF Band
Restores Hope To Children
The South
African Air Force (SAAF) Band performed at the New Hope
School on 6 May 2010 in Menlo Park, eastern Tshwane. The
band thrilled its audience with popular rhythms and specific
melodies that depicted ....
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SAAF
Pledges More Support For 2010
The Minister
of Defence and Military Veterans, Ms Lindiwe Sisulu,
reiterated on 29 January 2010 to thousands of SAAF members
and air-show spectators at Swartkop Airfield, Valhalla
(southern Tshwane), that ....
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JHB To
Boston: Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
January is the
month of high summer in the African bush. Then the heat
shimmers on everything under a bleak blue sky. Life here is
for those who laugh at discomfort. People who come from here
are a breed apart ....
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Going solo
in the “mosquito”
The fact that
people say “the Robbie is the most difficult helicopter to
master”, made us five newly qualified SAAF pilots a bit wary
of going solo in it for the first time. However, it was
nothing but pure bliss! ....
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