Botswana O'Hooligan
Fifty years of jet aeroplanes hasn't done much for it now takes longer to go between BN & SY or just about anywhere else because of the "rules." I remember fifty years ago being in stacks over Sydney and other places because there was no ATC radar, not even in many aeroplanes. We had ILS, VAR, DME and ADF, only and gradually wound our way down to the bottom of the stack and made our approach. Fifty years later and with a whole host of every know aid imaginable we are back in holding patterns drilling holes in the sky and burning huge amounts of kero and making approaches at pussycat speeds that makes one long for the old days when jet aeroplanes were built to go fast, and they did.