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Flight Plan Africa
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Author : John P. Cann
language : en
Publisher: Helion and Company
Release Date : 2015-05-19
Flight Plan Africa written by John P. Cann and has been published by Helion and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with History categories.
Following the 1952 reorganization of the Portuguese Air Force from the army and naval air arms, Portugal now had an entity dedicated solely to aviation that would bring it into line with its new NATO commitment. As it proceeded to develop a competence in modern multiengine and jet fighter aircraft for its NATO role and train a professional corps of pilots, it was suddenly confronted in 1961 with fighting insurgencies in all three of its African possessions. This development forced it to acquire an entirely new and separate air force, the African air force, to address this emerging danger. This is the story of just how Portuguese leadership anticipated and dealt with this threat, and how it assembled an air force from scratch to meet it. The aircraft available at the time were largely castoffs from the larger, richer, and more sophisticated air forces of its NATO partners and not designed for counterinsurgency. Yet Portugal adapted them to the task and effectively crafted the appropriate strategies and tactics for their successful employment. The book explores the vicissitudes of procurement, an exercise fraught with anti-colonial political undercurrents, the imaginative modification and adaptation of the aircraft to fight in the African theaters, and the development of tactics, techniques, and procedures for their effective employment against an elusive, clever, and dangerous enemy. Advances in weaponry, such as the helicopter gun ship, were the outgrowth of combat needs. The acquired logistic competences assured that the needed fuel types and lubricants, spare parts, and qualified maintenance personnel were available in even the most remote African landing sites. The advanced flying skills, such as visual reconnaissance and air-ground coordinated fire support, were honed and perfected. All of these aspects and more are explored and hold lessons in the application of airpower in any insurgency today.
Flight Path
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Author : Scott Gration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Flight Path written by Scott Gration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Africa categories.
The author relates his personal experiences and unique insights into his childhood as the son of missionaries in Africa to his career as a decorated USAF fighter pilot to his assignment as the President's Special Envoy to Sudan and US Ambassador to Kenya.
Self Flying The African Bush
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Author : Barbara L. Feader
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-03-01
Self Flying The African Bush written by Barbara L. Feader and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-01 with Travel categories.
Always desiring to take the road least traveled, in 1998 I made plans through Smith Travel in Easton, Maryland to take one very special road and explore game preserves in South and East Africa. But the roads I travel are between 3,000 and 9,000 feet above mean sea level in the left seat of a single engine airplane. And that was how I wanted to do my exploring in South and East Africa. Mr. George Sellers, a travel agent with Smith Travel at the time, was given the task of working out my travel plans. He chose Mike Johnson and Andrew Kerrich who operate Ubuntu Safaris in Johannesburg, South Africa to customize my safari, and gave them the particulars of what they should do. They were to lease a single engine airplane for me to fly beginning in late July and lasting through August, 1998, and employ someone to validate my U. S. pilot license, qualifying me to fly a plane of African Registry. A myriad of other requests were made for them to accomplish, including a trip to visit a falconer on his farm in Jacobsdal, in the Orange Free State, for an overnight stay, a hot-air balloon flight over the Serengeti with a champagne breakfast in the middle of the desert, a two hour elephant ride in the wilds of Zimbabwe, and a flight over the Indian Ocean to the Spice Island of Zanzibar. They were to work out the details of what visa's I would need to visit game preserves in up to 10 countries in South and East Africa, and figure the cost of everything for me to pre-pay before leaving the U. S. to guard against any chance of unexpected surprises while there. The first obstacle confronting me was my age. My seventy-ninth birthday loomed less than four months away, and to qualify for insurance on the plane they leased for me, it would be necessary for me to have a co-pilot accompany me on my entire journey. I authorized them to find me a co-pilot and they engaged Ms. Kym Morton, a consultant with Ubuntu on safaris, a fifteen year veteran African bush pilot, and a grade II instructor. She agreed to validate my U.S. pilot license, and accompany me on my month long safari. To my delight, she was a member of International Women Pilots, (more prominently known as The Ninety-Nines), the same as I. Through the expertise of the people at Smith Travel, everything went along smoothly, and on the morning of July 27, I boarded my flight to New York to connect with the South African Airline for a seventeen hour flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, landing at 3:00 PM on July 28, 1998. After going through immigration, I wheeled a cart with my belongings out to the airport lobby, where I saw two handsome fellows with a large sign that read BARBARA FEADER. Assuming the obvious, I wheeled happily over to where they waited, and was soon seated in the back of their car being whisked to Lanseria Airport, just outside Johannesburg, while Mike briefed me on what plans had been made for the evening, and to meet my co-pilot, Kym, and look over the plane she had reserved for me. The plane was a high-wing Cessna Skylane 182RG similar to the one I had flown in Kalispel, Montana to take a mountain flying course in 1975, and one I had flown on safari in Australia in July and August 1978. The only difference was, it was a later model, and had retractable gear. Kym had leased the plane from the owner for our safari, but learned a day or two before I arrived that the owner had decided to sell it, leaving us without transportation. It was a squeeze play on the owner's part to force Kym to buy the plane, and it worked, because it was too late for her to make other arrangements. Had she not done so, my safari would have been snafued. I was most grateful for her "gift" and really hoped she had not put herself in an untenable situation because of me. It was then time for Mike and Andrew to drop me at my hotel, The Hertford, a few miles away, where I was really ready for a soothing soak in a hot bath, and dinner, before be
My Heart Is Africa
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Author : Scott Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Release Date : 2006-03-02
My Heart Is Africa written by Scott Griffin and has been published by Dundurn.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-02 with Travel categories.
In 1996, successful businessman and certified pilot, Scott Griffin, decided to break from the comfortable routine of his life to go work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors to remote areas to administer medical assistance. Griffin also made the daring decision to fly his small, single-engine Cessna 180 solo from Canada to Africa and back again. My Heart is Africa is the engaging, personal story of Griffin’s two-year aviation adventure throughout Africa. Facing storms, equipment problems, fuel shortages and isolation, Griffin successfully made his way to Kenya – little did he know, his harrowing flight over the Atlantic was only the beginning of his adventure. Once in Africa, Griffin circumnavigated the continent, flying over deserts, mountains and jungles both as a medical volunteer and tourist. Throughout his journey – which included being arrested and crashing, then re-crashing, his plane – Griffin discovered the heartrending humanity and beauty of Africa. My Heart is Africa is an absorbing adventure story, but it is also the story of Africa – its problems and people, its landscapes and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin’s intrepid flying odyssey not only takes the reader on a journey across Africa but into the lives of all the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way. My Heart is Africa is a fascinating and gripping account of one man’s quest to push beyond his personal limits in order to explore and experience a new way of life.
Open Cockpit Over Africa
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Author : Victor Smith
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-06-07
Open Cockpit Over Africa written by Victor Smith and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This intimate account of what it was like to fly open-cockpit, single engined aircraft over the length and breadth of primitive Africa in the early 1930s has been written by one of the pioneers of the African air-routes, Victor Smith. Smith is in fact the last of that intrepid breed of pilots who risked their lives, and their machines, in a determined bid to open up the Darkest Continent and to reduce traveling times between Africa and Europe.
Flight Path
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Author : Jonathan Scott Gration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-10
Flight Path written by Jonathan Scott Gration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-10 with categories.
Captivating experiences from my unique childhood jump start the book. Human-interest vignettes punctuate fascinating accounts of developing the Predator drone, conducting the 2003 scud hunt in Iraq, and accompanying Senator Obama to Africa. I painfully describe surviving several terrorist attacks and then recount efforts to birth South Sudan.
The Last Flight Plan
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Author : John L. Sparks
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-06
The Last Flight Plan written by John L. Sparks and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author is a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and has spent over fifty years flying airplanes, from cropdusters to four-engine jets. This is his story of living a life in the commercial aviation industry, how he did it, and what it was like. He is now retired and living with his wife in her hometown, Smith Center, Kansas.
Flight Plan Png
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Author : Eileen Steenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Flight Plan Png written by Eileen Steenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Aeronautics categories.
Twenty Thousand Miles In A Flying Boat
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Author : Sir Alan John Cobham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Twenty Thousand Miles In A Flying Boat written by Sir Alan John Cobham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Aeronautics categories.
Time In Africa
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Author : David Price
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2023-07-07
Time In Africa written by David Price and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Time in Africa: Flying and Fun from 1963 to 1983 covers 20 amazing years of David Price’s life as a pilot, working primarily in Africa. Although filled with personal adventures and humorous anecdotes, Time in Africa is much more than an autobiography. It is also an amazing glimpse of a time in aviation before computerized flight controls and when some older planes were still made of plywood and canvas. Having flown planes such as a DC3, Dove, Comet 4, Viscount, B737 and B707, the author shares stories of near disaster, having to make mechanical repairs and adjustments while flying—including once with a fire ax, and landing and taking off in the desert without a runway. Adding further interest to these stories is the setting: Libya, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Zambia, Guinea, and Nigeria in their early days of independence post colonization. A natural storyteller, David portrays what life was like in Africa—both for the privileged Whites and the native Blacks—along with providing insight into the politics and attitudes of the time. From starting an airplane with car batteries strapped to a baggage trolley to having to put out a charcoal fire started in the aisle of a plane to brew a cup of tea, it is clear that there were few dull moments during David’s time as a pilot in Africa. It is also evident that he enjoyed every minute there, as will his readers as he takes them back to an amazing place in an interesting time.