Yesterday the Steyls of Kosmos scattered all over Africa again.
- I am already up in Monrovia, where I am flying between Monrovia and Accra.
- Louis left from Johannesburg to Harare where he is starting a new venture with MARS.
- The most dramatic event is that Johan Jr has flown our Cessna away forever to Namibia.
Above:- Here we were planning a flight some twelve years ago !
He flew a routing round the south of the Kalahari desert, from Kosmos via Kuruman to Upington where he refueled and cleared customs, then on to Keetmanshoop for Namibian Customs and fuel again then on to Eros airport in Windhoek. this took all and all, including all the stops some 10 hours?
It will be sold since it has served its time with us, both the boys did their training up to their commercial licenses on her. We owned the Cessna for almost 14 years and flew well over 1000 hrs to various memorable places around Southern Africa.
This old photo was taken in the door of ZS-CGE in 1994 with the boys aged 9 an 10
We'll remember the flight the boys made when they were in school and aged 16 and 17 to Cape Town and none of them could even drive a car and had to be fetched from Stellenbosch etc.
Then twice the whole family went all the way through Mozambique to the Bazaruto Island Archipelago where we stayed on Benguerra island for two fantastic holidays. Then there was the great flight across the Kalahari desert a few years ago to the Okavango Swamps in Botswana.
We will often miss the trusty little airplane!
Here she is parked in a hyena enclosure on the airstrip at Chitabe in the Swamps
Louis actually did his first flight on old years eve when he fetched a patient from Harare to Johannesburg, below is a Photo of the aircraft at Harare Airport.
