SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE No.24 SQUADRON AFB Waterkloof, South Africa

SAAF Cheetahs over flying frigate.

Denel Aeronautics Fixed Wing MRO

I'm sure readers know of Mary Shelley's famous novel 'Frankenstein'. Briefly, Dr. Victor Frankenstein assembles a monster in the form of a human being, using body parts from "the dissecting-room and the slaughter-house". Since then, the first part of his name has become a byword to describe anything that resembles a known thing, but uses parts from other things. For example, in the shooting world, a 'Franken-FAL' is a FAL rifle (like this one, for example) that looks as if it came from the…

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