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Re: Harvards in Africa

#21 Post by fareastdriver » Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:59 pm

Sailor Malan's son was on the same course as me at South Cerney. He didn't stay very long and after watching that program about his father it was probably because of his father's ill health.

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Re: Harvards in Africa

#22 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Apr 11, 2021 3:43 am

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Sailor Malan's son was on the same course as me at South Cerney. He didn't stay very long and after watching that program about his father it was probably because of his father's ill health.
I guess that was Jonathan Winston Malan ( named Winston in honour of his godfather, Winston Churchill)?

Malan's daughter Valerie lived in Oranjemund, South West Africa, under her married of Crankshaw when I was there back in the 70's. An unassuming lady who never let on who her illustrious father was.




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Re: Harvards in Africa

#23 Post by fareastdriver » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:55 am

I have a picture of Harvards flying over Bulawayo on either Rhodes or Empire Air Day. I would post it but I cannot work out how to do it . The image thing on the reply asks for a URL instead of sourcing my computer.

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#24 Post by ian16th » Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:05 am

fareastdriver wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:55 am
I have a picture of Harvards flying over Bulawayo on either Rhodes or Empire Air Day. I would post it but I cannot work out how to do it . The image thing on the reply asks for a URL instead of sourcing my computer.
In 'Reply' go to 'Full Editor & Preview'

Click on 'Attachments' tab

Click on 'Add Files'

Select desired file

Wait for 'Place in line' to appear

Click on 'Place in Line'

Preview and Submit as normal.
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Re: Harvards in Africa

#25 Post by fareastdriver » Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:42 pm

Too difficult: Over

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#26 Post by fareastdriver » Fri May 21, 2021 12:08 pm

This is the picture. In the top right hand corner is the City Hall. The picture is old and was folded over its lifetime.
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Thanks for the advice. The attachment tab was right down the bottom out of eyeshot.

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#27 Post by fareastdriver » Fri May 21, 2021 12:27 pm

My father was leading that formation in 1951 or 52. He was also the aerobatic display pilot and he would fly one up to Nairobi or Da es Salaam when required to do a show. Personally I wouldn't like to do any sort of display with a Harvard with an airfield altitude of 4,300 ft..

I lived at Heany in the brand new married quarters from 1951-53, new furniture, cookers and REFRIGERATORS. Whilst loading it on the first day I dropped a piece of raw liver on the floor. Sooty, our cat, hit it instantaneously and from that day on she could hear the fridge door opening from 100 yards. RAF Heany closed shortly after we had left.

Come 1957 my father elected to return there and I followed after the English school year. Six months later I was called up and spent six months as a squaddie training at Heany which was then Llewellen Barracks.

Don't know what it is called now.

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#28 Post by G-CPTN » Fri May 21, 2021 12:33 pm

fareastdriver wrote:
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I lived at Heany in the brand new married quarters from 1951-53,
Presumably as a minor?

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#29 Post by ian16th » Fri May 21, 2021 1:21 pm

Try printing this:
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Re: Harvards in Africa

#30 Post by fareastdriver » Fri May 21, 2021 3:22 pm

[Presumably as a minor?]

Just ten years old. My house was at 20Degrees07'14.95"S 28degrees46'24.43"E Opposite the end of the road in a westerly direction is a largish complex which was a teachers training college when I was in the army. Just north of that is a small cluster of buildings encased by white roofed huts. That was my old school.

The runway has gone; just two footpaths well in front of the hangars are where it was. Even when I was there it was used as a rifle range where we had to qualify. Five rounds; minimum of magpies at 200 yards. That's why I became a signaller.

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Re: Harvards in Africa

#31 Post by fareastdriver » Fri May 21, 2021 7:05 pm

The lat/long in my previous post is in degrees because I cannot find out how to type the small circle which is the degree symbol on Google Maps.

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#32 Post by G-CPTN » Fri May 21, 2021 7:09 pm

How to Type the °
PC. Hold down the Alt key, and on the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard, type 0176 or Alt+ 248.
Mac. Press Option Shift 8.
iOS. From the iOS keyboard on your iPhone or iPad:
Android. Switch to the numbers and symbols keyboard. The degree symbol should appear on one of the pages.

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#33 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri May 21, 2021 7:44 pm

Much easier is to go to Full Editor & Preview and use the superscript button. :D
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#34 Post by G-CPTN » Fri May 21, 2021 7:58 pm

What I tend to do is find some text on the interweb and copy it and then paste it into the required place.

Sometimes it requires an interim place in 'Notepad' to get the scale right.

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Re: Harvards in Africa

#35 Post by fareastdriver » Sat May 22, 2021 10:00 am

I copied the long Lat/Long to Micro Word; went to Insert/Symbol and found it about nine rows down. I modified the word text and here it is and it works.

20º07'14.95"S 28º46'24.43"E

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Re: Harvards in Africa

#36 Post by fareastdriver » Sat May 22, 2021 11:28 am

The road I lived in was called Jacaranda Crescent at the time. When we first arrived in Rhodesia accommodation was very short and we looked after a Presbyterian Mission at Ntabazinduna some miles from Heany. 20º01’59.12”S 28º50’43.66”E

He had a 1935 Chevrolet to get to work and at one time it broke down. No problem. Just across the railway and main road was White's Run, Heany's relief landing ground. The early morning met flight would take off, land at White's Run and pick up my father. On his last flight he would get off and his student would fly back to Heany.

Whites Run is the comparatively clear patch just south of the road.

When Mr Williams returned we lived in Bulawayo for a few months until the quarters at Heany were ready and then we moved in. With it I changed from Milton Junior in Bulawayo to Heany Primary . 20º07’11.51”S 28º46’12.16”E

You stayed in primary until twelve years of age in Rhodesia so to get over the Eleven Plus in the UK one took the Moray (sp) House Test which was supposed to qualify you for grammar school. I arrived in the UK on the 5th March 1953 to find out that Stalin had died. I then spent six months doing nothing until I went to Chipping Campden Grammar joining directly into the 2nd Form. At the end of my 4th Form I took my O levels and went back to Rhodesia.

In my time doing my National Service the two westerly hangers were used by the Rhodesian Ministry of Agriculture to store surplus grain. The plan was to have seven years reserves in case of bad harvests. After Independence that whole lot was sold to other countries for cash.

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Re: Harvards in Africa

#37 Post by G-CPTN » Sat May 22, 2021 11:55 am

fareastdriver wrote:
Sat May 22, 2021 11:28 am
I went to Chipping Campden Grammar joining directly into the 2nd Form
There was a 13 plus system in the UK whereby pupils who had narrowly failed the 11 plus could transfer to the grammar school.

Public (Independent fee-paying) schools transferred from lower to upper schools at 13, so there was a parallel.
Sometimes a pupil that didn't have the financial resources to continue in the private system would transfer to state grammar school at 13.

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