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Howzit Rob
Just a quick note to let you know that Ant Hill
(Tony) works with me on the tobacco floors if you want to contact him you can
email him on my add before you get this I hopefully will to remember to
introduce you when you come to the floors.
cheers for now I did
meet Tony in July 1999 and he is well.Webmaster
Hello,
It appears that your company were involved in putting together a website called 'Viscounts in Africa, the Air Rhodesia Story', which I have spent a lot of time studying of late. I am a professional pilot living in the Channel Islands (independent British speaking islands close to France) and write aviation related articles for specialist magazines. I am currently finishing a piece about the Viscount disasters in Rhodesia for 'Airways International' magazine, and would like to contact the ex-RH pilot who put together the website in question to seek his permission to use some material. I have tried to use the post box facility at the end of the website, but this appears little more than an icon. I would not expect you to pass me any details of the individual concerned, who no doubt has good reason to remain anonymous, but if there is any way that the fact I am trying to contact him could be communicated, I would be grateful. Dear Rob, Thanks for your help, the photos are exactly what I was looking for. I have managed to track down a model of a Viscount 700 at a mail order hobby shop in the UK, I'll order it from there. Thanks for your offer. The books look interesting.....I may be tempted!!! Hi
I just found your site today, and visited it because I
knew two of the people who survived the Hunyani crash, and were shot
afterwards.
Walter and Margaret Ferrier were long-time friends of
our family. Walter worked at the Vehicle Inspection Depot in Umtali Road until
his arthritis worsened. Margaret worked for Pearl (?) insurance. They had
flown up to Kariba to visit their pregnant daughter Margaret and her (Aussie,
pilot) husband Garry Mitchell.
The family was told that Walter was helped from the
wreckage, and to where they were told to gather, by other survivors because he
was almost crippled with arthritis. Something that has always stuck with me is
that it had only been Margaret Ferrier's second-ever airplane flight. The
first had been on the way up to Kariba. The reason she had never flown before
was because all her life she'd had an irrational and very strong fear of
flying...
Just wanted to share that with you.
Regards,
Carol Hart
rom ava natkin. purser finnair. md11. check training instructor. hi i grew up in the generation of kids who trailed their fathers on "business trips" on RH839/RH844 on a friday... by the time that viscount got back to salisbury airport it is a mystery those men managed any business at all.....and those poor women in mauve... anyways... Here at Finnair we assist in some other airlines safety training for various airlines and i had the misfortune to travel to Kinshasa not so long ago and there is a viscount sitting there, all white. a 700- series i think, (round doors, 10 windows) But there is no registration on it howvere it looks like it still actually gets in the air from time to time. I asked about it but noone was able, or willing, to say much. If i go again I will try take a picture for you. Ava Gudday!! Thanks for your informative site on Air Rhodesia and her relations!! A few months back I showed your web-site to a friend of mine, Ian du Plessis, whose father, Andre, was the pilot of Umniati. I am sure he would like me to pass his appreciation on to you. I make model aircraft as a hobby and intend to make a few of the the CAA and Air Rhodesia planes. The first project is of the DHC Beaver, largely based on the colour photo you had on your web-page. Do you have any other Beaver photos that can help me in terms of the CAA markings?? In particular there is a round marking on the fuselage that I cannot make out on the photo - the CAA logo is on the fin but it looks like something else - and also wing markings. The next planes I intend to do will be a DC-3 in early Air Rhodesia markings, and, if I can get hold of a suitable kit, a Viscount 700 in the later markings.
A very good site, compliments and thanks. I was wondering whether you would know how or where I could start by getting (even a copied) Air Rhodesia time table from approx. mid 1977. This isn't going to be easy I know. It's for personal interest combined with nostaligia (i was only about 11 then though) but a part of my career in finance is now to assist with emergent airline aircraft/route suitablity. Dear Webmaster (I couldn't find your name on the site), I found your Air Rhodesia site today by looking up which sites were linked to mine. You've taken the bit about Intaf planes from my Dad's book. Thanks for acknowleging that and for providing a link to it. I found your whole site very informative and well laid out. There was a young pilot in my Intaf intake at Chikarubi who was whisked away to fly even before we had finished our training, I forget his name through. I was in IANS4 in January 1976. Regards, Mike Hemans Im sorry Im getting to you so late but it has been difficult to get any info regarding the above.I urgently need to know if one can obtain Lat/Log coordinate of the crash site of Flight RH827 Viscount "Umniati" down the 12-02-1979. Reason we are leaving on the 02-04-99 08h00 flight to Zimbabe to try and find the site to lay a wreath for my fiance's mother , it will be her first visit in 20 years... Please if you can help , thanking you kindly. Kind regards David Webmaster: I was able to put him in touch with someone who knows the cords This e-mail is from JHB South Africa. |
