Tag: St Helena
RMS St Helena turned into anti-piracy armoury
RMS St. Helena Britain's last working postal ship was for almost three decades the main source of contact between one of humanity's...
St Helena airport finally opens
The British island of St. Helena, home to what critics called "the world's most useless airport", welcomed its first commercial flight on...
South Africa still in the dark over SAAF Cuba flight
Opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party shadow defence and military veterans minister Kobus Marais and defenceWeb are both being kept in the dark...
Parliamentary question asked about C-130BZ Cuba flight as SANDF still silent
With still no word from the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) on the recent C-130BZ Hercules flight to Cuba and back, an...
SAAF C-130BZ lands at St Helena, now back in SA
The SA Air Force (SAAF) is not telling, despite being asked, where one of its C-130BZs was going when it landed on...
Wildcat becomes first helicopter to land at St Helena Airport
The Royal Navy achieved an historic milestone when HMS Lancaster's Wildcat helicopter became the first rotary-wing aircraft to land at the island...