"THEY SERVED AFRICA WITH WINGS-60 YEARS OF AVIATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA" BY WGM STIRLING & JA HOUSE

"THEY SERVED AFRICA WITH WINGS-60 YEARS OF AVIATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA" BY WGM STIRLING & JA HOUSE, HARDCOVER, 2004, 275 PAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. NO NAMES OR INSCRIPTIONS. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

Retired airline captain Mitch Stirling, and John house, after years of research put together what must be one of the most in depth descriptive books depicting the history of aviation in Southern Africa, from year dot, up until 1980. This coffee table hard cover book, which weighs in at 2kgs, has been very well received and copies can be found in each corner of the globe. There are a few copies left for sale, and once gone, that will be the end of the line for the book- in its present form. Memories of Vickers Viscounts are deeply etched in the Rhodesian psyche. They played a vital role in the history of our land of lost content. If you lived in Salisbury, and listened carefully, you could even set your clock to the distinctive high-pitched whine of 4 Rolls Royce Dart engines, as RH 828 turned left off runway 06 and headed out across the city to Kariba, Wankie and Victoria Falls. Black or white, big or small, young or old, you loved the Viscounts. You could balance a coin on edge during flight. Millions of people travelled on the Viscounts; many of them were famous celebrities, prime ministers, presidents and monarchs.