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Wednesday, 19 July 2006

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History was made on Tuesday,18 July 2006 when the first of the SAAF’s new Gripen two-seat multi-role fighter jets took to African skies for the first time.  At 13:24, the pilot thundered down the Ysterplaat runway, before climbing away in a southerly direction, to give Gripen SA01 a taste of the African sky.

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