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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci (or John Hermes Secondari) African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz Mystery aircraft: Curtis-Wright XP-55 Ascender The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender is aRead more

“The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.” Albert Einstein African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft proved to be rather easy, so let’s see who gets this one correct.Read more

“A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.” Walter Lippmann African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The Myasishchev M-55 (NATO reporting name: Mystic-B) is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar inRead more

“You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.” Sir Winston Churchill African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft proved to be rather easy, so let’s see who gets this one correct. Please send your answers to me and not toRead more

“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” Clarence S. Darrow African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-altitude long endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunicationsRead more

“Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.” Rudolph J. Rummel African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft proved to be rather easy,Read more

“The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.” Thomas Babington Macaulay African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster was a special-purpose racing aircraft made by Granville Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts at the now-abandoned Springfield Airport (Massachusetts). Gee Bee stands for GranvilleRead more

“Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men” Dr Samuel Johnson African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft proved to be a challenge for many so let’s see who getsRead more

“Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?” Lord Chancellor Thurlow African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The Short SA.4 Sperrin (named after the Sperrin Mountains) was a British jet bomber design of the early 1950s, built byRead more

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’ and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites.’” Larry Hardiman African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Last week’s aircraft turned out to be easy to identify. Let’s see who gets this one correct. PleaseRead more