Gina
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33 people are shot dead in South Africa every day. This week, the UN handed that country the gavel at its Arms Trade Treaty conference. South Africa passed some of the strictest gun laws on earth. Citizens surrendered their guns under threat of prison. Then police tasked with destroying those guns sold them to street gangs. More than 1,000 murders have been traced to those firearms, including hundreds of children. The state took their guns and armed their killers. And South Africa isn’t the cautionary tale at this conference. It’s presiding over it. So Dudley Brown flew to Geneva and said it to their faces. Full speech below.
Gina83,387 views • 1 month ago
Why are Zimbos 🇿🇼 trying to claim and appropriate an Afrikaner invention??? 🤔
Gina24,327 views • 17 days ago
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This piece is from Fly Africa run by Aviator extra ordinnaire, Duncan Gillespie. A brilliant, if I (being Duncan Gillespie) may, claim, collected and extremely well written perspective on the current aviation hot potato, by well known aviation persona Franz Smit - “The 30-Second Razor’s Edge: What the Airlink Stadium Flypast Taught Us About Precision, Pressure, and the "Luck Bucket If you were tuned into the rugby last night, you felt it before you saw it. Two polished Airlink regional jets sweeping low over the stadium, framed by a iconic backdrop, cutting through the roaring atmosphere of a nation united by sport. For the crowd, it was a heart-stopping showcase of South African pride. For aviation nuts, it was a 30-second clinic in ultra-precise, high-stakes formation flying that we’ll be replaying, analyzing, and frame-stepping through at least a hundred times this week. It’s already splitting the room: half the internet is screaming about safety margins, while the other half is celebrating an unforgettable display of airmanship. But beneath the online noise lies a deeper, far more fascinating story about human performance, team currency, and how world-class experience is forged under immense pressure. The Math of the Cockpit: Luck Buckets vs. Experience Buckets There is a legendary rule in aviation: You start your career with a full bucket of luck and an empty bucket of experience. The trick is to fill the experience bucket before the luck bucket runs dry. During a low-level, two-ship stadium flypast in multi-ton commercial airliners, the margin for error isn't measured in feet; it’s measured in split-seconds and micro-corrections. Yesterday, as that trailing deck dipped exceptionally low over the stadium rim, did the crew dip a tiny spoon into their luck bucket? Perhaps. High-visibility display flying at that level inherently lives on a razor's edge. But what the critics miss is the massive weight of the experience bucket sitting in those cockpits. Consider the sheer rarity of this operational profile. How many pilots in South Africa (or globally, for that matter) have real-world experience conducting low-level, two-ship formation flypasts in modern transport-category aircraft? Maybe 10 teams total. With three senior captains stacked in each machine, and this marking their second major stadium flypast in a fortnight (amid a dense run of four consecutive weekend displays), these crews didn't just walk into the cockpit with decades of cumulative airline command time. They brought something far rarer: peak operational currency in display formation. Right now, those six aviators represent the most current, hyper-focused, and highly trained heavy-formation team in the country. Yesterday's display didn't just draw on experience - it built a brand-new benchmark for it. The 82nd-Minute Try: Calculating the Margin To put last night’s ultra-low pass into perspective, you have to look at it through the lens of Springbok rugby. Imagine Siya Kolisi fumbling a high ball over the try line in the 82nd minute, trailing by four points, only to catch it with the tip of his pinky finger and dot it down in the corner for the win. To the untrained eye in the stands, it looks like a heart-attack moment of pure, terrifying gamble. To the elite athlete on the pitch, it is a split-second, instinctual recovery executed at 100% heartbeat under maximum pressure - the result of thousands of hours of muscle memory, spatial awareness, and refusal to yield. That was the cockpit dynamic for those 30 crucial seconds. From final lineup, to the run-in over the stadium bowl, to the precise energy management required for the climbout, the pressure in that lead cockpit was absolute. The stakes - representing their airline, the country, and the safety of the display - could not have been higher.
Gina32,716 views • 1 month ago
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Woodstock people. On Wednesday broad daylight. This happened opposite a friends shop.
Gina40,692 views • 2 months ago