Oct 10, 2026 · 44 min · 14 segments
In this episode of Let’s Wing It, host Ruben Delmage sits down with Felix Gosher, founder of Children’s Flight South Africa.Children’s Flight is a unique initiative that uses aviation to make a…
Like 1,000 kids attended, uh, over, I think it was a period of two days that you hosted this.
So initially, 2018, we were supposed to do it at Waterkloof Air Force Base, but there was a bit of a, a last-minute logistical change, which meant that...
And, and Waterkloof Air Force Base was the size of venue where you could host 1,000 children-
So we were thrown a bit of a, a deck of cards, very short notice ab- about using the base, and, uh, we had to change venues very quickly with very little time.
And Gary Reno of Grand Central, who was the CEO at the time, uh, was very accommodating.
After the success of 2017 and '16, he said, "Come to Grand Central." And I said, "Yeah, but we've already, we've already committed to fly 1,000." He says, "That's fine, but we've gotta do it over two days," because Grand Central won't have the capacity to hold 5,000, um, of 1,000 on one day.
Um, it was, uh, August 31st and 1st of September 2018, and we took 500 kids a day, and it... initially, it started very slowly.
The sponsorship support only, like... we only had, like, six airplanes on the ground on the Friday morning, and, and the, and, and it was, it was a dry day.
Like 1,000 kids attended, uh, over, I think it was a period of two days that you hosted this.
So initially, 2018, we were supposed to do it at Waterkloof Air Force Base, but there was a bit of a, a last-minute logistical change, which meant that...
And, and Waterkloof Air Force Base was the size of venue where you could host 1,000 children-
So we were thrown a bit of a, a deck of cards, very short notice ab- about using the base, and, uh, we had to change venues very quickly with very little time.
And Gary Reno of Grand Central, who was the CEO at the time, uh, was very accommodating.
After the success of 2017 and '16, he said, "Come to Grand Central." And I said, "Yeah, but we've already, we've already committed to fly 1,000." He says, "That's fine, but we've gotta do it over two days," because Grand Central won't have the capacity to hold 5,000, um, of 1,000 on one day.
Um, it was, uh, August 31st and 1st of September 2018, and we took 500 kids a day, and it... initially, it started very slowly.
The sponsorship support only, like... we only had, like, six airplanes on the ground on the Friday morning, and, and the, and, and it was, it was a dry day.
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