my old SAAFOPS sim

5 Oct 1982 – The Officer Commanding #Ondangwa Air Force base – Colonel De Villiers pours champagne on the head of Cobus Toerien in a South African Air Force tradition to celebrate an air combat “kill”.

This ceremony was to celebrate the shooting down of Mig-21 by Major Johan Rankin on the same day, Kobus Toerien was Rankin’s wing man in the en…Read More

20 Feb 1988: 72302342PM Major Edward Richard Every from 1 Squadron was Killed in action when his Mirage F1AZ, Serial 245 was shot down by a Soviet #SA-13 Gopher Surface-to-Air Missile at Cuatir near Menongue while on an operational sortie over Southern Angola. The aircraft crashed in flames and disintegrated on impact with the ground. He has no…Read More

#Hurricane MKII 1 Squadron #WW2