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Polar bears plummet from the sky in brutal and bloody cinema advert

By Paul Ash | 14 hours, 38 minutes ago

A new TV advert showing polar bears hurtling from the sky and smacking the ground in bloody heaps is expected to generate plenty of controversy for climate change activist group Plane Stupid. Read More…

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If South Africa’s cops must fly, then here’s how to do it

By Paul Ash | 1 day, 10 hours ago

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The South African Air Force has these marvellous entities called volunteer squadrons. The units are made up of civilian volunteer pilots who use their OWN aircraft on scheduled transport tasks for the SAAF. Read More…

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180 000 travellers can’t be wrong: Etihad voted world’s best airline

By Paul Ash | 2 days, 17 hours ago

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Etihad, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has been voted the world’s best carrier at the World Travel Awards (WTA). Read More…

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Eject! Eject! Eject! “Bang seats” and the quest for survival

By Paul Ash | 3 days, 11 hours ago

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One of the questions that the investigation into last Saturday’s Lightning crash at Overberg Air Force Base will attempt to answer is why pilot Dave Stock did not eject from the stricken aircraft. Read More…

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Cape Town’s swish new airport terminal

By Paul Ash | 4 days, 12 hours ago

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There are a few things missing from Cape Town’s new airport terminal that money couldn’t buy and to which the terminal’s planners probably paid little, or no, attention, if they even knew. Read More…

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Lightning fighter jet crashes at South African airshow

By Paul Ash | 6 days, 12 hours ago

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A privately-owned Lightning fighter jet has crashed, killing its pilot, at an airshow at the Overberg Air Force Base east of Cape Town. Read More…

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Australia’s badass piper and his “octopus of evil”

By Paul Ash | 6 days, 14 hours ago

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Roving Times correspondent Nicki Güles files one last dispatch before she heads for home.

He calls himself the Badpiper and he literally rocked Perth’s Murray Street Mall today. Read More…

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Kangaroos: Land invasions the Australian way

By Paul Ash | 1 week ago

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Times traveller Nicki Güles reports from the Outback:

I spent three days on tour this week with a crazy and entertaining tour guide named Neil McLeod. Read More…

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For this I will endure midget seats, bad air and the unredeemed incompetence of customs officials everywhere

By Paul Ash | 1 week, 1 day ago

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PJ O’Rourke, the acerbic American writer, was at a Kim Dae Jung political rally in South Korea when the kid standing in front of him bit off the tip of his finger and wrote “Kim Dae Jung” in blood on his white ski jacket. That was “the first time I ever felt like a foreign correspondent,” O’Rourke wrote. “I mean here was something really ******* foreign.” Read More…

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Aircraft kills giraffe in Botswana

By Paul Ash | 1 week, 2 days ago

In Tuesday’s post about the bear that ate an aircraft in Alaska, I mentioned that some of the hazards of backcountry flying included hitting wild animals on remote African airstrips.

Colliding with a giraffe on take-off in a Cessna 172 is a pretty grim experience, as this photo from Lee Ouzman attests.

This sad incident took place some time back at Santawani airstrip in Botswana.

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