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Adrenaline action at air show
Multiple South African stock car racing champion Pieta Victor will on Saturday race against an aircraft during the Wings & Wheels Festival and Doug Davidson Memorial Air Show at the Uitenhage Airfield. PHOTO:HEILIE COMBRINCK
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here is no tougher customer than a pilot flying over a raging inferno and no aircraft offering you more freedom in the sky than a gyrocopter! Fire fighting aircraft, gyrocopters, a DC3 Dakota, Whispers, a Mustang, Harvard L39 and Seafurie are but a few of the eccentric aircraft to be seen in action at the Wings &
Wheels Festival and Doug Davidson Memorial Air Show which will be held at the Uitenhage Airfield on Saturday. The highly effective fire fighting combination of a Cessna 182 spotter plane winged by a huge Bell UH-1 “Huey” from Working On Fire (WOF) aerial fire combating team will on be seen in action on Saturday. The Huey was developed for the US military by the American company Bell, for the Vietnam War. All the WOF Hueys have been fitted with Bambi
buckets capable of dropping 1 100 litres of water on a fire. “This will be a rare opportunity for festival goers to see how the Huey and spotter plane operate together with the local fire brigade. The Huey will scoop water and drop it off alongside the runway at a mock fire,” said Lourens Kruger, Wings & Wheels Festival event organiser. “It will not be a real fire, just smoke. As fire will not be allowed close to the airfield accord-
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ing to the rules and regulations applicable at the airshow.” The Wings & Wheels Festival and Doug Davidson Memorial Airshow will start on Friday at 10:00 with entertainment and stalls. From 16:00 onwards aircraft will start arriving and at 19:00 the Afrikaans singer and West Coast storyteller Andries Vermeulen will perform at the Uitenhage Airfield. Elsebet van der Byl will be the local singer on stage. (Continue on p.2)
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