The Airplane Factory’s Sling featured on CNN this morning!

Mike Blyth and James Pitman won the the James Gilliland Trophee at the annual Aeroclub of South Africa Awards evening. Congratulations to both of you for a well deserved award!

Our live Q&A session went very well with nearly 1200 viewers following the broadcast. Thank you to everyone who participated. For those of you who missed it, you can go to http://www.justin.tv/airplanefactory to view the broadcast. Just have a look beneath the main broadcast area on this page, and you will see a block where

Great News! Great News! Mike & James will be doing an hour-long live Question & Answer session on the website homepage on Friday the 4th of September at 16:00 SA local time (14:00 UTC). Interested viewers are welcome to send them questions and messages via a specially set up broadcast page which all internet users

Thank you to Dave Reid for this excellent video showing more of Mike & James’ arrival back at Springs Airfield, Johannesburg on Thursday the 27th of August.

Mike & James will be at the Bethlehem airshow today…so if you missed them at Springs Airfield on the day of their return, do not miss out on this great day of aviation fun at Bethlehem.

It was a very emotional welcome when Mike & James arrived back in Johannesburg airspace while flying in formation with some trikes, aircraft and helicopters. True to style, they did not fail to entertain the people as they did a few fly-overs before touchdown, and found themselves greeted by two gentleman in their birthday suits

Mike & James arrived back at Springs Airfield, Johannesburg at 14:30 SA local time (12:30 UTC) 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. Thank you to everyone who met them

Mike & James have arrived safely at Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA) in Nelspruit, after flying for just over 19 hours to complete the 3,460km leg from the Seychelles. They will depart later in order to arrive at Springs Airfield at 14:00 SA local time (12:00 UTC) in Johannesburg.

We’re sitting having breakfast on the verandah of our guesthouse on the Beau Vallons beach in Seychelles. Just 5 hours to take off for Kruger Mpumalanga International. The weather here is much better than it was yesterday – bright blue sky with a few puffy, kissey kind of cumulus clouds, a light cool breeze and