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Thunder City's wings clipped

2010-09-08 00:23

Theuns van der Westhuizen

Cape Town

The roar of Thunder City's supersonic veteran jet fighters is quiet.

The private collection of veteran jet fighters which Mr. Mike Beachy Head a decade ensures that adrenalen junkies a flight of a given age, are now closed.

Beachy Head, which is currently in Britain, it said in a statement attributed to "a number of factors including the current economic downturn, high costs of maintenance problems with the inconsistency of the authorities, both short-and medium-term outlook ".

Meanwhile, Erika Gibson reported from Pretoria that Thunder City's air operators certificate for flights paid to offer, according to Mr. Kabelo Ledwaba, spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in March this year has been suspended. That was when the CAA in an interim report on an accident in which a pilot from Thunder City, Dave Stock, in November 2009 in Bredasdorp died several deficiencies in the maintenance department for the company pointed out.

Thunder City, from a site at the Cape Town International Airport is operated, said about the world's largest private collection of veteran jet fighters have.

Three lightnings English Electric, three Buccaneers, five Hawker Hunters, a Strikemaster and two modified Puma helicopters were used.

The company, which began Beachy Head, has international fame and numerous people came to Cape Town for a flight in a supersonic military jet.