5 Oct 1982 – The Officer Commanding #Ondangwa Air Force base – Colonel De Villiers pours champagne on the head of Cobus Toerien in a South African Air Force tradition to celebrate an air combat “kill”.

This ceremony was to celebrate the shooting down of Mig-21 by Major Johan Rankin on the same day, Kobus Toerien was Rankin’s wing man in the en…Read More

20 Feb 1988: 72302342PM Major Edward Richard Every from 1 Squadron was Killed in action when his Mirage F1AZ, Serial 245 was shot down by a Soviet #SA-13 Gopher Surface-to-Air Missile at Cuatir near Menongue while on an operational sortie over Southern Angola. The aircraft crashed in flames and disintegrated on impact with the ground. He has no…Read More

#Hurricane MKII 1 Squadron #WW2

1 Squadron #Spitfire IX in #Italy with a 500 lb bomb under the belly. #WW2

1 Squadron mechanics #WW2 #Spitfire

1984 Namibia/South West Africa Angolan Border – A highly regarded officer in The South African Air Force – Jan Henning, is seen here standing in front of his French built Mirage fighter jet. Note the specially designed protective revetment (pen) for these fighters behind him. AFB #Ondangwa #MirageF1

South African Air Force Dassault Mirage F1 AZ No 217 #MirageF1

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Martin Maryland Mark II, 1655, of the SAAF, is refuelled at Ma’aten Bagush, #Egypt. #WW2