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100 Years of Flight: How South Africa benefitted and contributed

The first heavier-than-air aircraft to be designed in South Africa – indeed, probably in the whole of Africa – specifically for powered flight was the product of South African aviation pioneer John Weston.

By: Keith Campbell

12 Dec 03

Martin Creamer Show on SAFM

On-The-Air (12/12/2003)

Every Friday morning, SAfm’s AMLive’s radio anchor John Perlman speaks to Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly. Reported here is this Friday’s At the Coalface transcript: Perlman: Whenever you...

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