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A sprawling Free State farm returned to the steam age last week.
Garratts slumber in the smoky Sandstone engine shed
Twenty-two restored steam locomotives were fired-up and spent the week hauling trains on the 26km-long narrow gauge railway that picks its way through the maize fields and under the sandstone buttresses on Sandstone Estates near Ficksburg. Read More…
Three Dutch sailing ships are presently heading across the southern Atlantic to Cape Town.
Oosterschelde at sea. Click on the photo
The three vessels – the bark Europa, the Oosterschelde and the Tecla have embarked on a voyage to trace the route of the great Dutch explorers Abel Tasman and Cornelis de Houtman during which they will round the three notorious capes named by Dutch sailors – Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn. Read More…
THIS is the sound of two 1200 horspower Pratt & Whitney radial engines at full take-off power. Make that six Pratt & Whitney radials as a World War II-era Catalina flying-boat and a Douglas C-47 “Dakota”, and two Harvard chase planes took off from Rand Airport on a photo shoot on Saturday. You will hear the sound of one of the Harvards climbing out after take-off, followed by the wide-open-throttle sound of the Catalina and then the Dakota
The Catalina, fresh from a six-year restoration job, is about to depart for its new home on San Diego so this was a last chance for local photographers get pictures of this magnificent machine in the air. Read More…
The Top Star in better days. PHOTO: Rodney Jones
Remember the Top Star Drive-in, one of Jo’burg’s more heartwarming landmarks? Read More…
The Apollo 11 patch, and a shot of the Saturn V rocket blasting off the launch pad. PHOTO: NASA/Wikimedia Commons
There is a story about Neil Armstrong that will endure forever. It goes like this: when he was climbing back into the lunar lander after his first historic walk on the moon’s surface, Armstrong is said to have muttered under his breath, “Good luck, Mr Gorsky”. Read More…
The Alwyn Vintcent steams out of the V&A in her tourist boat days
There was this old steam tuboat, see, lying forlorn in the Victoria and Alfred Basin in Cape Town. It had seen better days. Once it had been used to take pilots out to ships waiting in the roadstead, and to shepherd fishing trawlers in and out of their berths in the V&A. After that it was used – briefly – as a tourist boat, taking people on cruises around the harbour. Read More…
Brewing up in Ghoom. Click on the photo
10 February 1995. The train took all day to climb from the warm Indian plain, panting its way foot by foot into the hills. Read More…
A fitter arrives for the day's work at the loco shed in Wolsztyn, Poland
Just back from Poland. Got sweaty, dirty and a bit overheated. Read More…
TAP Portugal will cease flights on the Lisbon-Johannesburg route from June 1, the airline said this week.
The carrier plans to focus on its direct route between Maputo and Lisbon. Travellers wishing to fly from Johannesburg will be accommodated on short-haul flights on Mozambican carrier LAM and South African Airways.
A connecting flight is, by definition, a poor substitute for a direct flight but it’s clear from the move that TAP sees more value in its Maputo connection. It also means much less competition: instead of scrapping with dozens of European and Gulf airlines over the same little pie, TAP and LAM will operate the Maputo-Lisbon route together under a codeshare agreement. Read More…
Two pictures of the machine that revolutionised the airline business. The first, a United Airlines publicity shot taken in 1935 when the DC-3 was entering service in America, shows Douglas Sleeper Transport “City of Portland” preparing for take-off. Read More…
