Langebaan

Yeah.

It was a, a wake-up call 'cause you get your wings and you think, "Wow, I'm a pilot." Uh, [laughs] you get to Langebaan and you realize, "Oh, no, I'm not a pilot yet." [laughs] Um, because on the Harvards they teach you to fly, and then you go to 85, uh, Flying School, where they teach you to fight.

Um, so you learn everything from close formation to battle formation, low-level flying, um- And everything that's, uh, all the f- the, the facets that you would like to use in your, uh, fighter pilot career.

Maybe just explain to me, uh, because I don't really fully understand it because I've never been to a, a, a combat school.

Uh, tell us about that aircraft.

It was a beautiful airplane.

Uh, MA-GB326 is the one, uh, the, the one version that we flew down at Langebaan.

And, uh, uh, we called it Impala Mark 1, later the Mark 2, which is a single seater.

Here is Themba Adams.

My uncle Wilfred fished out of Langebaan for most of his working life, and he had one story he saved for funerals, after the second brandy.

He had come up from the boats one winter dawn, he said, and there on the dune road above the lagoon a leopard stood and looked at him, the way a cat looks at a man who has interrupted something.

Nobody believed him.