Golden Transvaal
Documentary (1970)
Production:
Bob Adams (Music)
Elsa Bijker (Productions Assistant)
Neil Moultrie (Productions Assistant)
Lee Marcus (Script and Lyrics)
John Da Silva (Production and Direction)
Also from this series:
SATOUR films series
This 1970 promo film "Golden Transvaal" was directed and produced by John Da Silva. It promotes South Africa and its national parks. It dates to the apartheid era and contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly endorse racism and racial separation. It is presented solely for historical purposes, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.
Boeing 707-344
Landing at Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB), O.R. Tambo International Airport/O.R. Tambo Internasionale Lughawe (JNB/FAOR) nowadays.
Either ZS-CKC, ZS-CKD, ZS-CKE impossible to determine with this screenshot.
Boeing 707-344
Taxiing at Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB) behind another Boeing 707-344 from South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Taxiing between a Douglas DC-8-43 of Alitalia and Boeing 727-44 of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Various Airliners
Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB).See discussion tab.
1 - Boeing 727-44 of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
2 - Boeing 707-384C of Olympic Airways.
Registration SX-DBC, c/n 18950/504. Delivered new to Olympic Airways in June 1966, named City of Knossos. Converted to Boeing KC-137E Stratotanker and delivered to Fuerza Aerea Venezolana in January 1991, registered FAV-8747, named Pegaso.
3 - Douglas DC-8-62 of UTA-Union de Transports Aériens.
Registration F-BOLF, c/n 45918/353. Delivered new to UTA in April 1968. Leased to LAM-Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique in April 1981. Returned to UTA in March 1983. Sold to Air Traffic Service Corp. in April 1986, registered N728PL. Converted to Douglas DC-8-62F in July 1986. Leased to Interstate Airlines in July 1986. Transferred to Air Transport International in October 1988. Leased to International Charter Xpress Ltd in January 1994. Returned as Air Transport International after merge in October 1994, named Jerry 'Pete' Zerkel. Wfu at Piedmont Triad International, Greensboro - High Point USA (KGSO/GSO) in May 2005.
4 - Boeing 707-344 of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
Boeing 727-44
Pratt & Whitney JT8D of Boeing 737-200 on top of picture.
Boeing 737-2B2
Either 5R-MFA or 5R-MFB, as Air Madagascar operated only 2 airplane of the type.
Pratt & Whitney JT3D of Douglas DC-8-62 on top of picture.
Douglas DC-8 & Boeing 707-358B
Various Airliners
1 - Douglas DC-8-55F untitled with UTA colours.
2 - Boeing 707-344 of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
3 - Boeing 727-44 of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
4 - Boeing 707-344 of South African Airways/Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens.
5 - Boeing 707-358B of El Al Israel Airlines.
Idem.
Various Airliners
1 - Douglas DC-8-55F of UTA-Union de Transports Aériens.
Registration F-BNLD, c/n 45819/238. Delivered new to UTA in November 1965. Leased to Air Afrique from February to April 1966, registered TU-TXG. Leased to Commandement du Transport Aérien Militaire from September 1966 to February 1967, registered F-RAFC. Leased again to Air Afrique from February 1967 to April 1967, registered TU-TXK. Sold to Commandement du Transport Aérien Militaire in June 1972, dual registered 45819/F-RAFC, used as VIP aircraft République Française. Sold to Aerostock Le Bourget France for Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace and dismanteled at Le Bourget LBG in december 2010.
2 - Douglas DC-8-43 of Alitalia.
3 - Vickers VC10 Srs.1101 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
Boeing 727-44
On touch to the ground of runway.
Pratt & Whitney JT3D of Douglas DC-8 on bottom of picture.
Douglas DC-8-63 & Boeing 737-2B2
Top to bottom.
Vickers VC10 Srs.1101
Older footage with Speedbird Meat Cleaver livery.
Boeing 727 or 737 landing gear on top of the picture.
Various Airliners
Jan Smuts Airport/Lughawe Jan Smuts (JNB).
1 - Boeing 707 of PAN AM-Pan American World Airways.
2 - Boeing 707-382B of TAP-Transportes Aéreos Portugueses.
Registration CS-TBA, c/n 18961/456. Delivered new to TAP-Transportes Aéreos Portugueses in December 1965, named SANTA CRUZ. Leased to Air Atlantis in May 1985. Sold to Atlantic Leasing & Financial, registered N45RT and leased in February 1987 to Reflectone Training Systems. Sold to Buffalo Airways in November 1991. Leased to United States Navy in November 1994, used as E-6A trainer. Wfu at Davis Monthan Air Force Base,Tucson (KDMA/DMA) in March 2001. Stored by 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), a unit of U.S. Air Force.
3 - Douglas DC-8-32 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Boeing 707-344
Zoom on Pratt & Whitney JT4A-12 nacelle.
Various Airliners
1 - Douglas DC-8-33 of UTA-Union de Transports Aériens.
2 - Vickers VC10 Srs.1101 of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
3 - Douglas DC-8-43 of Alitalia.
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