{"id":1160,"date":"2013-10-30T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:24:52","slug":"zwartkop-south-african-air-force-base-museum-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/zwartkop-south-african-air-force-base-museum-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Zwartkop South African Air Force Base museum monthly meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once every month, the South African Air Force museum in Zwartkop, Gauteng, flies its helicopters. This small air show is opened to the public, but only few people actually come. Unlike major crowded meetings, this makes the event very nice to attend.<\/p>\n

What would you see there?<\/p>\n

Helicopters, of course, and other aircraft, such as the Harvard<\/a>.\u00a0The helicopters are military, with the corresponding colour and markings. Consequently, it is not so easy to distinguish them from the landscape. Photographers would complain that the subject does not really stand out.<\/p>\n

\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette II landing on parking in front of the South African Air Force museum, Swartkop, Gauteng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III after flight inspection with a pilot getting pretty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III in approach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III on ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III landing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III landing on taxiway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III landing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III landing on taxi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III parking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III parking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III parking and taxi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Red<\/a>
Red Alouette III passing by<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Red<\/a>
Red Alouette III approaching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III parked on the shadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Alouette<\/a>
Alouette III showing off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Atlas<\/a>
Atlas C4M Kudu ZU-CWZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harvard<\/a>
Harvard on low pass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"2<\/a>
2 Harvard in formation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"3<\/a>
3 Harvard in formation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harvard<\/a>
Harvard formation approach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harvard<\/a>
Harvard on parking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harvard<\/a>
Harvard taxiing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harvard<\/a>
Harvard tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sunglasses<\/a>
Sunglasses reflection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Zwartkop<\/a>
Zwartkop South African Air Force Base, Alouette II and Alouette III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once every month, the South African Air Force museum in Zwartkop, Gauteng, flies its helicopters. This small air show is opened to the public, but only few people actually come. Unlike major crowded meetings, this makes the event very nice to attend. What would you see there? Helicopters, of course, and other aircraft, such as … Continue reading Zwartkop South African Air Force Base museum monthly meeting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocopter","category-experience","category-photos","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueskyrotor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}