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Thu, Aug 21, 2003

Fastest Traffic Report? Maybe.

Johann von Bargen is well-known to East Coasters in South Africa. He's been doing traffic reports for twenty years; and he is also managing director of Pro Driving Tactics, running anti-hijacking clinics, a popular and sadly necessary part of drivers' education in that transitioning land.

What he isn't well-known for, is giving those traffic reports from 15,000 feet, inverted, and going really fast -- as he did last Friday in an L-39. Listeners reported that some clarity and detail were lost, but that, in general, they didn't mind.

Mr. von Bargen crossed the KwaZulu-Natal skies, he said, in a Sunday Times article by Taschica Pillay, "...to do the world's fastest traffic report."

Although the field for that record may seem open, he may have to qualify it: if memory serves, a Space Shuttle commander once remarked, as he headed into an early-morning landing at Edwards AFB (CA), that he was amazed that LA-area traffic on the 405 was already starting to back up...

FMI: www.l39.com

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