TOURIST AVIATION FEATURE: HAWKER HUNTER & BUCCANEER JET AIRCRAFT PROVIDING ADVENTURE TOURISM VARIOUS JET FLYING & SAA JUMBOS LANDING & TAKING OFF AT DF MALAN AIRPORT, INT. PILOT MIKE BEACHY

Record ID: 893523

  • Title: TOURIST AVIATION FEATURE: HAWKER HUNTER & BUCCANEER JET AIRCRAFT PROVIDING ADVENTURE TOURISM VARIOUS JET FLYING & SAA JUMBOS LANDING & TAKING OFF AT DF MALAN AIRPORT, INT. PILOT MIKE BEACHY
  • Date: 22nd December 1996
  • Summary: TOURIST AVIATION FEATURE: HAWKER HUNTER & BUCCANEER JET AIRCRAFT PROVIDING ADVENTURE TOURISM VARIOUS JET FLYING & SAA JUMBOS LANDING & TAKING OFF AT DF MALAN AIRPORT, INT. PILOT MIKE BEACHY
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  • City: CAPE TOWN
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96DEC22R03
  • Story Text:TOURIST AVIATION FEATURE:

    00.43.44 EXTREME WIDE DF MALAN AIRPORT
    00.44.13 HAWKER JET PLANE TAKING OFF
    00.44.54 SAA JUMBO LANDING
    00.46.32 DC LANDING
    00.46.40 2-SEATER BUCCANEER ON GROUND
    00.47.22 RADAR TOWERS - TRAFFIC CONTROL
    00.48.59 PLANE WITH FOLDED WINGS
    00.50.01 HAWKER TAXI TO HANGER
    00.51.42 PILOT WALKING AROUND PLANE SAYING 'Good day."
    00.51.54 INTERVIEW: MIKE BEACHY What i'm sitting in here is the world's only flying Buccaneer S2B at the moment; we've got another one over in England which is busy being refurbished & will be arriving in February.
    00.52.02 This is in essence a very low-level very fast strike-attack aircraft. It was used by the SA Air Force. This particular one is an ex-British Defence Research Agency aircraft...and she's now been operating in SA since May this year.
    00.52.21 COMPANY = CALLED CLASSIC JET SA - STARTED OFF AS AIRCRAFT PRESERVATION / HERITAGE MOVEMENT - EXPANDED OPERATIONS
    00.52.36 and we're now offering tour packages in these aircraft to bring out people who want to fly in them & really experience the thrill of being airborne in such an encredible piece of machinery like this.
    00.52.48 We focus on the international market, not really for the local market. We offer a 10-day package to SA & we try and make it very user friendly. It's not a hostile inveronment; included in the 10 days is 5 flights in this aircraft so you'll get about 4 & half hours of good solid flying & we offer a full ejection-seat training course, survival drill, safety cockpit management, oxygen management all that that kind of stuff...
    00.53.24 Initially we do a flight in a Hawker Hunter TH...
    00.53.33 We offer a 10-day package REPEAT
    00.53.35 ...you know the cape is a wonderful tourist venue, beautiful city & you come out here for 10 days, includes forst class airfare top hotels all that sort of stuff & in that 10-day period you get 5 flights in aircraft such as these.
    00.53.53 Your first flight will be in a Hawker Hunter TH which is a 2-seater advanced jet trainer, a very potent airplane & that's obviously after you've completed your safety drills etc....
    00.54.31 FIRST FLIGHT TO MAKEYOU FEEL COMFORTABLE
    NEXT FLIGHT = AEROBATICS - TO GET FAMILIAR WITH G-FORCE - THIRD FLIGHT GO FOR A LOW LEVEL COAST FLIGHT IN THIS PLANE - THEN FLY IT THROUGH THE VALLEYS & MOUNTAINS
    00.56.03 LAST FLIGHT YOU GO UP IN AN ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING
    00.56.10 and you about 30 miles off the coat you climb to 30000
    feet accelarate to mach 2 which is obviously twice the speed of sound and then we shoot up to 60 000 feet & we maintain that for a few minutes and so for a very brief period in time you'll be one of the highest fastest men alive and then we return back to base where there's generally a little bit of a party.
    00.56.47 ...we encourage anyone who's got a bit of a spirit of adventure in them to come and do this thing. You know adventure tourism is one of the biggest growth industries in the world at the moment & we really sit on the absolute pinnacle of adventure tourism.
    00.56.59 Once you've done that I think there's very little other than going in the space shuttle that you can really do. It'sreaaly one of the ultimate advenures...
    0057.21 ...because it comes under the banner of adventure & excitement it doesn't mean to say it's unsafe. We actually fly to the most strictest possible regimes...highly trained...run on a very tight military basis...
    00.57.47 I don't think there's any package offered anywhere else in the world that encompasses what we do & is as user friendly...
    00.58.25 ...the pilots are trained to make the people from whatever walk of life they come from, to just enjoy themselves that's the idea and really have the thrill of a life-time. I don't think you can really top it.
    00.58.42 The planes are extremely safe and they all are of a very low fatigue status...
    00.59.06 WIDE SITTING IN COCKPIT
    00.59.24 TRACKING OF PLANES OUTSIDE HANGER & GROUND PERSONNEL
    01.00.15 COMAIR PLANE TAXI
    01.00.28 MIKE IN COCKPIT
    01.00.53 PUTTING ON HELMET & OXYGEN MASK
    01.02.25 ENJINS ON
    01.04.32 SAA JUMBO ON RUNWAY TAKING OFF
    01.05.29 PUTTING WINGS DOWN
    01.07.28 MOVING ON RUNWAY
    01.09.55 SAA JUMBO LANDING PASSING JET BUCCANEER
    01.11.13 TAILS OF VARIOUS PLANES
    01.12.45 JET TURNING ON RUNWAY
    01.13.23 FOLDING WINGS
    01.16.31 COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TAKING OFF
    01.17.11 WIDE OF HAWKER
    01.17.40 HAWKER TILT UP JUMBO FLYING OVERHEAD
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