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“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience and has little to do with school or college.” Lillian Smith African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Please send your answers to me: editor@africanpilot.co.za and I will publish the namesRead more

“Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.” Herbert Hoover African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz In 1934, the Nemuth Parasol, built by students at Miami University, demonstrated that even a circular wing could be used to fly an airplane reliably.Read more

“Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.” Thomas Sowell African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but canRead more

African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The HZ-1 Aerocycle, also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer’s designation DH-5 Aerocycle, was an American one-man ‘personal helicopter’ developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction. The HZ-1 wasRead more

“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.” H. L. Mencken African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Please send your answers to me:Read more

Important changes at African Pilot From March last year when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit South Africa, all African Pilot’s staff members were forced to work from their respective homes. Even when the lockdown was partially lifted, the decision was for the team to continue working from their homes. This meant that I was theRead more

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Please send your answers to me: editor@africanpilot.co.za and I will publish the namesRead more

African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz German Blohm & Voss BV141 was used as a reconnaissance aircraft in the Second World War. This aircraft is certainly on the shortlist of the most unusual aircraft designs in the history of military aviation. The Blohm & Voss company was best known for its flying boatsRead more

“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State” Bertrand de Jouvenel African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes,Read more