Yes, it is a Lodestar. Use to be at Lanseria in a silver/light green(Comair?) colour scheme.

Mark and Dave

Those are Venturas ! The SAAF Coastal Command used Ventura’s until 1959. By 1960, all were stored at AFS Snake Valley. Most being scrapped. The SAAF museum retain a few, together with a single Lodestar. SAA obtain two for technical training. One since being past on to the SAA Museum and the other being given to the “Dickie Fritz Shellhole” in Edenvale. The pictures show this example being delivered in 1985 and later in it’s original colours after being restored. This example is a Ventura PV-1 (Gr.Mk.5). It served with 23 Squadron(SAAF Coastal Command) and then post war as a VIP aircraft with 28 Squadron before becoming TS305 with the SAA Apprentice School. In 1985 she was swapped for a Harvard and now resides with the M.O.T.H’s in Edenvale(Near Johannesburg), South Africa.

One with a difference………

Apparently it was ex-SAA 747-200 ZS-SAF (Waterberg) the sister aircraft to ZS-SAS (Helderberg) which crashed in 1987.

Sad loss. 🙁

Distiller. But they did not alter intakes on Mirage f1. So the mirage f1 atar has the same mass flow?

The reason why the intake ducts were not modified was because the laws governing the shock cone movement were changed instead. Instead of operating over a continuously variable range of positions, this was changed to enable only discrete movement to 40%, 60% and 100% of the displacement range.

Seems as if the wheels are coming off ! :diablo:

From personal experience, the aircraft is allowed to continue to it’s destination. It is then grounded. First signs are usually strong rumours. Out of the number I’ve seen, only one paid cash for fuel and this was after they had lost there jets, so the cat was already out the bag!