Page 37 - World Airnews Magazine November 2020

100 YEARS

in South Africa, thanked the guests

for their attendance and handed

over the very first copy of the Aero
Club centenary yearbook to the
doyen of ballooning in South Africa
Terry Adams. Terry since his arrival
in SA in 1976 has been the mainstay
of balloon manufacturing and pilot
training in SA.

Thereafter Aero Club chairman
Rob Jonkers thanked BAFSA and

their team for hosting the event - the
only one of its kind to mark the Aero
Club’s centenary that took place in
2020.
A ceremonial centenary cake cutting

was then carried out by the Aero
Club’s executive committee, Rob

Jonkers (chairman), Marthinus Pot-
gieter (vice-chairman), John Gaillard
(hon treasurer) and Hanke Fourie
(exco member).
“Although the year 2020 will go
down in history as a great disrupter
that rained on our centenary parade,
we will look at holding as many of
those events in 2021 – dependant on

time and resources. We would like to

do justice to our 100-year heritage,
especially poignant would be to hold

a 100 aircraft of all types flypast (101

also looks like a good number…) and
an all recreational aviation air week

as was initially planned for this year
at Middelburg,” said Jonkers.

The centenary coffee table book,
available for sale on the Aero Club
website, is a compendium of each
flying disciplines with historic and

contemporary photos with numer-
ous personalities who had some

remarkable stories to tell – all as

a celebration for this signature cente-
nary year. Q

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