SAAF ASSOCIATION
SAAF ASSOCIATION
SAAF ASSOCIATION
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<strong>SAAF</strong>A GOLF DAY (Cont)<br />
Tanya of Absolute Aviation manning the very<br />
popular watering hole which they sponsored.<br />
Johan van Wyk with Jack Featherstone (93)<br />
Mike Louw and Daan Retief, winners of the <strong>SAAF</strong>A<br />
Trophy with Chairman Hennie van der Walt and<br />
Secretary Carol van Rensburg<br />
Renee van Schaik and Grant Hallowell of IQ<br />
Business with their 1 st prize (a flip in a Tiger Moth<br />
donated by Jeff Earle of Placo)<br />
WARSAW FLIGHTS COMMEMORATION<br />
8 SEPTEMBER 2012<br />
(by Jean Urry)<br />
An amazing shot of the huge Hercules C130 in the<br />
low-level flypast over the Katyn Memorial<br />
Climate change is wreaking havoc with our<br />
weather, and early spring in Jo’burg was very<br />
cold. Saturday 8 th September, Warsaw Flights<br />
Day, dawned grey and chilly, but luckily there<br />
was no rain about. The team was up bright and<br />
early, and everything went to plan – the result, a<br />
wonderful and moving service. Thank you to<br />
General Gagiano, General Page and the South<br />
African Air Force – your side of things was<br />
arranged with the usual Air Force precision.<br />
We were honoured to have some dignitaries<br />
present - General Gagiano, the then Chief of the<br />
South African Air Force, Mrs Gagiano, General<br />
and Mrs Page, General and Mrs Earp, Myra and<br />
Spinny Sobczyk, Wing Commander and Mrs<br />
Mitchell, Emilio Coccia, representatives from<br />
Zonderwater, and many others from the <strong>SAAF</strong>,<br />
<strong>SAAF</strong>A, RAF and various military organisations.<br />
It was an honour to also have present the Polish<br />
Ambassador, the German Ambassador, the<br />
Director of the South African Museum of Military<br />
History and many members of the Polish<br />
community in South Africa and the Johannesburg<br />
public. Thank you all for your support.<br />
Well-known <strong>SAAF</strong> and Polish dignatories at the<br />
Warsaw Flights Service<br />
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