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Travel Blogs from Bloemspruit, South Africa
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Rooivalk Solo
... ; I was so happy!!! Rooivalk: The Denel AH-2 Rooivalk (previously designated CSH-2) is an attack helicopter manufactured by Denel of South Africa. Rooivalk is Afrikaans for "Red Kestrel". The South African Air Force (SAAF) ordered 12 Rooivalk AH-2As, the ...
Happy Birthday SAAF!
... be an understatement! Not only was the Squadron riding the tide of having the first Rooivalk delivered and introducing them to the South African public, but the development of the DTS was in full swing and I was clocking up the Km's between DENEL in ...
First SAAF 3 Ship Rooivalk Formation
... and Lt Col Bates + Stephen Bull. The Rooivalk were being delivered to the Squadron thick and fast in preparation for out big Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) show coming up at FAWK. This lead to the photographs of all 8 of the production Rooivalk ...
Exercise Black Hawk
On Friday the 6th of September, shortly after we had finished our AAD exercise, I was called to 87 Helicopter Flying School for a briefing on an exercise which was to take place the following day in the Bloemfontein area. I was the only senior officer on ...
Leaving Rooivalk Behind :(
And so after lots of negotiations between Lt Col Reynolds and Air Command I was informed of my departure from 16 Squadron to become the new Chief Ground Instructor at Central Flying School at Langebaanweg. Steve Smith phoned me up one evening to break ...
16 Squadron Re-opening
... the Aérospatiale Alouette III. A year later it moved to AFB Durban, though did not stay long, and finally moved to AFB Bloemspruit during 1972. The squadron's A Flight was transferred to AFS Port Elizabeth in 1973, with its B Flight moving first to AFB ...
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