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The Airplane Factory is a Johannesburg based business focussing on the development and manufacture of high quality, high utility aircraft. The Airplane Factory's first aircraft, the Sling, is a competitively priced high all round performance aluminium light sport aircraft which can be purchased ready to fly or as a homebuild kit.
For the adventure of it, and also to prove the aircraft to themselves and the world, Mike Blyth and James Pitman, the company's founders, recently flew the production prototype Sling around the world, via EAA Oshkosh, the worlds largest airshow. The aircraft performed flawlessly, flying numerous legs of over 2 000 nm (3 600 km) over the world's oceans, west to east and with almost the entire route in the ITCZ. James and Mike note that there are only two structural differences between the standard and the round the world Sling - the sealing off of additional spaces in the wing to hold additional fuel and the addition of 15 layers of glass fibre to the main undercarriage to provide more stiffness.
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We flew around the world in the Sling
