The 2019 European Business Aviation Congress and Exhibition (EBACE), held in Geneva for 19 years, marked a high-tech stamp as well as business jets developed this year. Today, business jets, which are indispensable of the business world, are exhibited in a static area, while aircraft manufacturers, service providers, all kinds of equipment and technical equipment manufacturers,...

The fields of aviation and aesthetic medicine could hardly be further apart, but one pioneering doctor hasn’t let that stop him. Dr Reza, one of South Africa’s most successful cosmetic surgeons, has designed and patented an aeroplane that is the first of its kind in the world. Dubbed the Pegasus Vertical Business Jet (VBJ1), the aircraft aims to combine the best features of a...

Pretoria, South Africa-based Pegasus Universal Aerospace is debuting a model of its Pegasus One VTOL business aircraft this week at EBACE 2019. On display at the Pegasus booth (D23) by the EBACE Innovation Zone, the two-by-two-meter (six-by-six-foot) model will showcase Pegasus’ design that combines capabilities of a helicopter with those of a turbine business aircraft. Working...

South African start-up advances with the design of the VBJ-1, a vertical take-off and landing airplane for eight passengers. Aviation start-ups have been multiplying throughout the world in recent years. Born to make heterodox aircraft concepts viable, these companies want to do the same thing in the aerospace industry as Google did for Internet searches or Facebook on social...

Africa is undergoing a massive transformation and last week the FINN team was at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) Show at Waterkloof, just outside Pretoria, taking a closer look at some of the initiatives underway and on display. There were plenty of aeroplanes on display, new and old, large and small, and we caught up with the growing number of UAV manufacturers and other...

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Dr Reza Mia at the African Aerospace and Defence Exhibition held at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria, 20 September 2018. Picture: Jacques Nelles Skin doctor to the stars Dr Reza Mia is taking executive jet travel a few leaps further with his Pegasus One – VBJ (vertical business jet). With his perfectly styled jet-black hair, toned arms and reputation as skin doctor to the...

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The brainchild of renowned aesthetic medicine practitioner, Dr Reza Mia – who not only makes people look fabulous at his practise, but is also an avid aeronautics scholar with an MBA and Masters in Finance, and is the founding CEO of Pegasus Universal Aerospace – is the brand new, South African first, The Pegasus Vertical Business Jet. Innovation is important to Dr Mia, and the...