Afro-Continental Airways and their old gunrunner

Afro Continental Airways was a tiny air service that operated in Southern Africa back in the early 1970’s. Its only schedule passenger route was a weekly return flight between Salisbury in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Windhoek in South West Africa (now Namibia) with a single old Lockheed Super Constellation. While the whole premise of Afro-Continental and their modest service seemed both innocent and insignificant, the truth was far more intriguing. They were part of a much larger clandestine operation and their ailing old aircraft had a secret life as a hard working African gunrunner that had carried bullets, blood and bodies...