No in-flight movies or first-class luxury here; a group of aviation enthusiasts are flying across Africa 1920’s style.

Team Frog & Kiwi taking off from next to the pyramids # VintageAirRally # Egypt #Pyramids #takeoff Team 98 - Estelle & Nath

Team Frog & Kiwi taking off from next to the pyramids # VintageAirRally # Egypt #Pyramids #takeoff Team 98 - Estelle & Nath

Team Frog and Kiwi @BruAviatSchool to attempt landing at #Cairo #pyramids, not done in 80 years! #VintageAirRally

We did it! We did it!!!!!! The Franco-Belgian Team Frog & Kiwi landed at the PYRAMIDS! Something everybody said would be impossible!!! Thank you Aeroclub of Egypt for making this possible for the #VintageAirRally! We know you've worked really hard since a year! #rally #aviation #egypt #africa

This is the first plane to land at the Pyramids in decades

El Cairo, 13 nov (PL) Aviones biplanos de las décadas de 1920 y 1930 aterrizaron hoy en Egipto, en la primera etapa de un viaje que, tras iniciarse en Creta (Grecia), los llevará antes de fin de año hasta Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica.

GOOD LUCK & BON VOYAGE to former Army Air Corps [Gazelle] pilot Sam Rutherford (4 Regt, 5 Regt, 1 Regt, 25 Flt Belize and AAC ski team member, 1990 - 98) who is leading the epic Vintage Air Rally - scheduled to leave Crete today bound for Cape Town South Africa.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/13/1930s-vintage-biplane-makes-daring-landing-at-the-pyramids/

Promise delivered...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Twelve vintage biplanes from the 1920s and 1930s set off from the Greek island of Crete on Saturday bound for South Africa for a 12,800-kilometre (8,000-mile) race never attempted before by so many antique aircraft. The planes are following the route plied by Imperial Airways,