Thunder City, Cape Town South Africa, is home to the largest civilian owned collection of ex-military jets, it represents a unique and exceedingly exciting opportunity to experience the unsurpassed thrill, of jet aircraft flight.

For your supersonic jaunt, you get to choose from the worlds only four flying English Electric Lightning’s, three BAE Buccaneers, seven Hawker Hunter’s, a Strikemaster, as well as a glass cockpit Puma helicopter SA 330. All aircraft are meticulously maintained and housed at the Thunder City base.
 
There are varieties of jet flight profiles to choose from; supersonic, ultra high, aerobatic, surface-hugging, formation flying, or a combination of all. Whatever the nature of your fighter jet flight dream, Thunder City will bring it to life.

The Thunder City Playground

The Blue skies of Majestic Cape Town, is where the dream becomes reality. Jet across the worlds most scenic peninsula to where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans merge, climb to altitudes high above Table Mountain and salute Robben Island, as you shoot up the pristine Cape Coast to where crystal clear waves break on sugar-white shores below.
   

Thunder City is the only place on earth where you will find the famous cold war supersonic jet interceptor, the English Electric Lightning in fully serviceable condition, along with other exciting graceful and robust combat jets, all available for entertainment. Included in the fleet are the world’s only flying Bae Buccaneers, along with the largest collection of flying Hawker Hunter jets. The Buccaneer being a famous low-level tactical nuclear-capable jet bomber, while the latter, the pride of the Royal Air Force and the most successful British fighter jet ever built.

Some Plane Facts

English Electric Lightning:

The Lightning isn’t flown like a conventional aeroplane – you strap her to your back and experience the full thrust of the jet soaring. She’s a real beauty, offering incredible power and ‘g’s’ that make the supersonic jet interceptor, unforgettable.   

Soon after take-off, you go vertical at very high speed, rocketing to an altitude of 50 000ft, while the sound barrier is broken the smooth and gentle handling of this heavy metal jet, is worthy of being marveled at. When the apex of the climb is reached, participants join the elite few, who can boast having seen the Earth’s curvature in all her splendour.

BAE Buccaneer:

The last all-British strike jet bomber, the Buccaneer is a low level strike attack aircraft that was designed to fly extremely fast at extremely low altitudes.

Upon take off they head straight out to sea at a speed of close to 650 miles per hour, just 50 feet above the water: your ‘g’ limits and sortie profile are determined purely by your ability to handle them.
Seated in the jet behind the pilot, participants get to work with him to maximize the experience, whether it be a heart pumping adrenaline rush through the rugged Cape Swartland Mountains, or a heart pumping jaunt along the Cape coast. This is one jet experience that will stay with you for the rest of your life. GUARENTEED
   
Hawker Hunter:

Regarded as the “Spitfire” of the jet age the Hunter is one of the most elegant combat aircraft ever to grace the skies and are hence in demand at airshows the world over. The Hunter is the ideal aircraft for aerobatic sorties or simply fast and gentle trips around the magnificent Cape coastline and its winelands.

If you chose an aggressive aerobatic jet sortie, you’ll pull loops, rolls, barrel rolls, inverted flight, vertical maneuvers and a host of other exhilarating maneuvers – and you’ll come out of them feeling like you have lived the fighter pilot experience.

MAKE THE DREAM REALITY...........