Must See: SAA's Mesmerizing A340 Formation Flying - A330 / A340

Must See: SAA's Mesmerizing A340 Formation Flying

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:18:12 +0000

Yesterday was Presidential Inauguration Day in South Africa, which was the biggest event of its kind in the country in the past two plus decades. Of course that isn't the focus of this post, though -- rather it's to highlight the indescribably mesmerizing formation flying that two South African Airways A340-600s did to commemorate the…

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J Munene — Mon, 27 May 2019 08:13:15 +0000

SAA : we have lost billions of dollars operating our planes. What should we do? * Performs a fly past anyway.

Johan — Mon, 27 May 2019 05:59:21 +0000

Almost as good as the Rugby WC 1995 flyover

Matt — Mon, 27 May 2019 03:43:26 +0000

Wow. Seriously impressive.

Noah Bowie — Sun, 26 May 2019 22:38:13 +0000

Even more amazing if they hadn't spent loads of money they don't have on that.

Dev — Sun, 26 May 2019 21:37:15 +0000

The A346 has always been an incredible aircraft to fly on. I will always remember how smooth the flights were. The SAA pilots have done a fantastic job for this fly past and deserve every bit of the kudos they are getting the world over with these videos.

Alex Tambiev — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:02:10 +0000

@Bagoly that wasn’t on takeoff, they did a flyby of the airport as well. By the way the lead aircraft must’ve had a serious case of ‘bank angle aural warnings’ when it flew that left break out of the airport flyby...

Eskimo — Sun, 26 May 2019 16:23:26 +0000

Still waiting to see another barell roll. Maybe Boeing needs to do that on a 737MAX to 'sell airplanes' once again.

Michael — Sun, 26 May 2019 15:08:05 +0000

This one even more crazy/incredible/amazing: https://twitter.com/AeroSkippah/status/1132341904220278785

Bagoly — Sun, 26 May 2019 14:52:53 +0000

They look awfully close for take-off - are there two parallel runways?