Travels in South Africa

[Andy Bennett]

In our travels in South Africa we have often seen a huge pile of old metal under a passenger aircraft as we head towards Cape Town airport. 

This year we passed the site but not on our way home so decided to detour and see if we could track it down. A few false turns later and we found it, and it was well worth finding.

Under the wing of the aircraft were a lot of very rusty bits of cars, many American, many completely unrecognisable:


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Hidden away was a Starsky and Hutch lookalike:

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And then amongst a Moggy, a Capri, an Anglia, a Rolls Royce, Jag and some sort of jet car, awaiting recommissioning was a lovely RN:


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it was dark but they let me open the bonnet to see the engine. I tried to get numbers but couldn't see and pointing the camera in hope didn't work. But the engine did appear 'well' if dusty and the mechanic assured me that it was ready to go.

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Heading off now. hopefully to meet up with Greig in PE.

Andy B