Welcome

Mike and James, proud owners of The Airplane Factory, are back in South Africa after flying the production prototype Sling from Johannesburg, South Africa, to the Oshkosh Airventure Airshow, Wisconsin USA, then continuing their journey westwards circumnavigating the globe. This journey took them over one calendar month, starting on 18 July and ending on 27 August 2009.

Progress Report

Mike & James arrived back at Springs Airfield, Johannesburg after flying for 40 days, visiting 13 countries, and covering a distance of approximately 45,150km in the Sling light sports aircraft which they had built with their team at The Airplane Factory. Congratulations guys!

See the entire trip we had taken below. The yellow line indicates the route we wanted to take originally, and the red line indicates the route we had actually flown.

GOOGLE EARTH PLUGIN: Install the Google Earth plugin to see the Sling's route in 3D.

View in Google Earth

If you have Google Earth on your PC, you can also
click here to view the route we wanted to take,
as well as see the actual route we had flown.

Chat Zone

Some of the recent quick
messages sent to Mike & James:

"Hey James & Mike! I read the article in Huisgenoot at 5 o clock, just finished the total experience and it is now 12:09! Fucking awesome doods!!! I wanna get me one!!"

Martin Koper

"congradulations on you great trip. Hope to see you at Oshkoch next year. ken"

khdraper@charter.net

"I flew my Sportstar from Florida to Oshkosh & back and thought that was a big deal. You guys are the bomb! Congrats!"

Steve Cohen

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