Flying the Sling

The red Sling I flew in to The Airplane Factory

Dave and Llewellyn with their Sling in production

We designed our cockpit avionics layout on the computer

Terry and Ruan putting the prototype 4-seater together

Dave with The Airplane Factory's CEO Mike Blythe and our aeroplane

Computer design of the 4-seater prototype

We spent an awesome weekend in Johannesburg visiting Mike Blythe's Airplane Factory where our new Sling is in production. Mike picked me up in the red TAE at Lanseria Airport to fly to the factory at Tedderfield. At the factory there are about 10 Slings in production and Mike hopes to push up production as the orders flow in.

Also being built is the 4-seater prototype and in the 4th photo above Terry and Ruan fit some of the panels to the aircraft. They also showed me some of their incredible Solidworks computer designs that precede the final product on the factory floor.