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FEATURE CAASA
SOME INTERESTING FACTS AFRICAN AVIATION
Two reasons - first because all the noise HOW DID YOU GET THE EXACT
these planes made it hard to see when COLOUR MATCH?
he Ford Mustang bears the initials it was moving (you could not stand close The museum supplied Performance with RECOVERY
TDBH. The Spitf ire that crashed enough) and secondly it was so that you original colour charts but paint supply
was KAX, but the original colours of that would to be able to tell if the tyre had companies could not match them to
plane when it first started flying was DBH. moved. today’s paint codes so we had to get a FLIGHT PLAN
‘colour spectrometer’ and walked around
WHY IS THE AIRING TAPE ON THE WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO INCLUDE the museum reading the colours off the
MUSTANG PAINTED BLUE? THE SA FLAG? wreckage of KAX. By Derek Nseko
The Spindle (the round cone shaped DBH had the old orange/white and blue WHO ELSE WAS INVOLVED?
piece) in front of the prop on most planes flag that the SA planes flew way back
was red but on DBH it was blue. then. We felt it more appropriate to use Saturn Autobody helped us and their
the new SA flag . That’s the only bit that’s supplier is Glasurit paints. Yes Ian
WHY DO THE WHEEL RIMS HAVE not authentic. arranged for us to take the spectrometer
THE PARTICULAR YELLOW/ The exact type of Ford Mustang – It’s a and we supplied them the samples which
ORANGE COLOUR? Mustang 5.0 , V8 automatic coupe. they were happy with. Q
Photo by Nick Morales on Unsplash
World Airnews He introduced the audience to the new PT6-E
correspondent series GA engine for which the new generation
PC12-NGX is the launch customer
ntitled ‘Aviation’s recovery flight plan’ the
“And if I am not mistaken the first was delivered
Derek Nseko ECAASA symposium was a professional and recently in Africa,” he said.
attended the well run virtual event. Hosted by Creative space Talking briefly about the engine, he said it of-
media, the event featured presentation from
virtual Commercial sponsors Pratt & Whitney, CAMASA, AEROSUD, fered a new flying and service experience, raising
the bar in performance control systems, data
Aviation DJA Aviation Insurance and the ATNS. intelligence and customer service.
Just under 100 attendees joined in to hear what “It is the first turbo prop engine in GA to offer a
Association these aviati on experts, thought leaders and offi - dual channel integrated electronic propeller and
cials from various organisations and companies
of Southern had to say. engine control system,” he said.
Some of the features include an auto-start
Africa (CAASA) First up Pratt & Whitney regional sales director with push button, full digital envelope protec-
Kaval Shah addressed those present on the topic tion, single lever operation, integrated electronic
symposium of ‘African Operators in 2020 and beyond’. propeller and engine control, digital auto-throttle
He began by providing a corporate context of
recently and filed where Pratt and Whitney sits as a company. ready and digital propeller speed management.
Hosted by CUAASA president, Sean Reitz, the
this report He said that the parent company or OEM United panel discussion included Phindiwe Gwebu from
Technologies had merged with Raytheon Compa- the Civil Aviation Authority of South Africa, Jeof-
ny in April last year to form Raytheon Technolo- frey Matshaba from the Air Traffic and Navigation
gies and has its headquarters in Massachusetts in Services, Graham Speller from DJA aviation and
the United States. aviation expert Linden Birns from Plane Talking.
Under Raytheon company there are four or- Gwebu began with an overview of how the
ganisations namely Collins Aerospace, Pratt and CAA has navigated 2020. She admitted that the
Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence and Space and year had been difficult because the organisa-
Raytheon Missiles and Defence. tions’ funding model is largely dependent on
Pratt and Whitney have operations servicing passenger movements.
the large commercial engine and military engine She said some of the key areas to note were
sector as well as the business, general aviation, licensing where the CAA offered exemptions to
helicopter and regional engine sector. license holders facing expiries.
He explained that the company services a di- While inspections were handicapped by the
verse client base across amongst others security, lockdown, oversight was still maintained and
humanitarian and rescue missions. safety and security remained on track.
He said engines taken out of service without The backlog for exams was eased by a move
preservation can suffer corrosion and as a result towards digital and electronic systems and stake
of the Covid-19 crisis the Pratt and Whitney offices holder collaboration was highlighted as key for a
had remained open to offer aftermarket support. smooth re-opening of the air transport system.
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