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September 22nd, 2005
Swartkops Air Force Base, Pretoria.

The weather conditions were great, the crowd uninterested, the camels stinky and the beer warm.
Although al these inadequacies were throwing their hand at the day, the commander of the sleek,grey,Gripen had an unforseen smirk on his face as ...

I used to live in a town called Phalaborwa, and one night myself and my brother went to a pub and chatted with 2 American guys. They were visiting for a while and it was their first trip to South Africa. The funny thing was, that they expected to find live elephants running around at the airport ...

Here in South Africa in a town called Phalaborwa, it is often that lions and maybe even warthogs are found on the runway. Once I heard a story of some lions on the runway, that just didn't want to leave. The planes coming in had to circle untill the lions were chased off.

Howzit people! I'm Fiela from Pretoria and an aviation inthusiast,maybe one day having a PPL, and hopefully fly aerobatics for some local team, like the Mazda Zoom Zoom team!
Good to be here.