Gareth
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Can any of our SA members elaborate on the stories going around many aviation forums that Thunder City is no more?
Nothing on their website as yet http://www.thundercity.com/pages/499409045/Home.asp
It was one of my lifetime ambitions to get to see, or even better fly in the EE Lightning, or the Buccaneer.
A sad loss if its gone.
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 8th Sep 2010 9:46 pm |
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bearman
Member Since: 04 Sep 2008
Location: East London
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Afraid it is true seems after the lightning prang they have not flown since. here is an article from a afrikaaans newspaper translated by google
Quote:Thunder City's wings clipped
2010-09-08 00:23
Theuns van der Westhuizen
Cape Town
The roar of Thunder City's supersonic veteran jet fighters is quiet.
The private collection of veteran jet fighters which Mr. Mike Beachy Head a decade ensures that adrenalen junkies a flight of a given age, are now closed.
Beachy Head, which is currently in Britain, it said in a statement attributed to "a number of factors including the current economic downturn, high costs of maintenance problems with the inconsistency of the authorities, both short-and medium-term outlook ".
Meanwhile, Erika Gibson reported from Pretoria that Thunder City's air operators certificate for flights paid to offer, according to Mr. Kabelo Ledwaba, spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in March this year has been suspended. That was when the CAA in an interim report on an accident in which a pilot from Thunder City, Dave Stock, in November 2009 in Bredasdorp died several deficiencies in the maintenance department for the company pointed out.
Thunder City, from a site at the Cape Town International Airport is operated, said about the world's largest private collection of veteran jet fighters have.
Three lightnings English Electric, three Buccaneers, five Hawker Hunters, a Strikemaster and two modified Puma helicopters were used.
The company, which began Beachy Head, has international fame and numerous people came to Cape Town for a flight in a supersonic military jet.
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| 9th Sep 2010 2:39 pm |
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Kabous
Member Since: 11 Jul 2007
Location: Mokopane
Posts: 233
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Hi Gareth
Browse or ask around at www.avcom.co.za there is quite a few people there who knows all about T C White MY2011 SDV6 HSE
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| 10th Sep 2010 1:17 pm |
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