GPS - de Havilland Vampire Traditional Cache
GPS - de Havilland Vampire
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This is a cache that was created to be part of the Gauteng Power Series (GPS). The Gauteng Power Series (GPS) was created to offer Cachers the opportunity to achieve personal caching goals by using Grand Personal Selection (GPS) to decide how to hunt and find these caches, all in one day, or one by one over a period of time. Remember to Go Physically Safely (GPS) when you Grope, Peek and Search (GPS)
As this stretch of the (GPS) is near the Lanseria Airport, we thought a plane theme is in order.
de Havilland Vampire
The Vampire’s first flight was in 1943 and introduced in 1945. It is a jet-engine fighter aircraft built during WW2 and was the second jet fighter commissioned by the British Royal Air Force. It was too late to be used WW2 but served as a trainer. There were 3,268 of them built and used by 31 different air forces. The Vampire broke many records some being, the first Jet aircraft to fly over the Atlantic and the modified Sea Vampire was the first pure-jet aircraft to land on water. The Vampire is 9.37m long and has a wingspan of 11.58 m. It weighs 3,304 kg (empty) and maximum speed is 882 km/h with a range of 1,960 km.
[Info and Pictures sourced from Wikipedia]
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