Friday 9 August 2013

Atlantic trip

The incredible Sling team are at it again. The second Sling 4-seater has been built and flown across Africa and the north Atlantic to put it on show at Oshkosh, the world's biggest aviation show in Wisconsin, USA. The pics below show the route up the west coast of Africa, and from Dakar, Senegal over the Atlantic to the Azores and then on to Canada. After the show, Mike (Airplane Factory partner) and his son Greg were replaced by James (Airplane Factory partner) and Tim for the next legs of the return journey that will see Sling 4 ZU-TAD fly to Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and England; and then take on the last part of the journey with James' brother Andrew joining him while they adventure south again via Morocco and the west coast of Africa home to Johannesburg. See their full story here.
 

The journey from Johannesburg up though Africa and the Atlantic to America, and then home again via Iceland.



Mike Blyth (right), The Airplane Factory designer of the Sling, and his son Greg in the dark of Africa  

Tim joined James Pitman of the Airplane Factory for part of the journey home, chilling here in Greenland 

The Sling 4 TAD lands in Greenland on the way home from America to South Africa
Sling 4 TAD wends it's way down the fjord to a Greenland landing

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