Day 1: Final Preparations Well Underway
Mon, 04 May 2015
Monday 4th May 2015
Estimated Time of Departure 16:30
Well, final preparations are underway here at The Airplane Factory, with both pilots and the aircraft going through the motions.
James and Pierre going through the motions while enjoying some lunch.
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11 September to 7 September 2011
Mon, 05 May 2014
Sunday, 11 September 2011 Shared Mexican delights! 2011-09-11 08:43:39 UTC+2 Howdy, howdy, howdy…….I wish you were all here! In fact as I was strolling up from the beach to get a beer and then proceed to the business centre, I thought about an idea. It means so much to us that there are so many of
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The Sponsors
Fri, 06 Dec 2013
Thank you to our sponsors and supporters from all around the world for helping make this adventure a possibility! Dennis Jankelow & Associates www.jankelow.co.za Comet Aviation Supplies www.cometaviationsupplies.co.za MGL Avionics www.mglavionics.co.za Rotax Aircraft Engines www.rotax-aircraft-engines.com PocketFMS www.pocketfms.com FlightPermits www.worldflightpermits.com Indigosat www.indigosat.com VFR Planner www.vfrplanner.co.za
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The Aircraft
Fri, 06 Dec 2013
What Makes ZU-TAD different from Standard Sling 4’s? We wanted to keep this Sling 4 as close to the standard product as possible but due to the distances we have to travel over oceans, jungles, deserts and ice caps we have had to make a couple of changes. Namely… The fuel tanks – they are
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The Route
Fri, 06 Dec 2013
Leg Departure from Arrival at Designator Distance (km) Time (hrs) Date 1 Tedderfield Airpark, Johannesburg South, South Africa Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa FALA 65 0.4 2013/07/20 2 Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa Luanda, Angola FNLU 2 447 13.6 2013/07/21 3 Luanda, Angola (FNLU) Accra, Ghana DGAA 2 183 12.1 2013/07/22 4 Accra, Ghana Dakar
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14 April – Coming back home
Tue, 03 Dec 2013
James' laptop got busted, but they managed to get a few photos through to us of Prague and the airshow at Friedrichshafen. They will be leaving from Zurich in Switzerland today on a commercial flight and head back to South Africa via Dubai. [k2gallery path=”expeditions/2011-poland/20110414″]
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11 April – A short update from Radom
Tue, 03 Dec 2013
We've been in Radom for a couple of days checking out our prospective distributor (Solaris Group Aviation and Wind Sp z o.o.'s) premises and negotiating terms of distributorship (within quite a bit of food and drink in between, including what turned into a profoundly disabling vodka drinking session for me). Luckily I got in a
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7 April – Mitilini to Krakow
Tue, 03 Dec 2013
Yooohooo, we're in Krakow, we're alive and there's good food and beer! Even better, Krakow is absolutely beautiful, full of history and, being a university town, is full of students. If you have a Sling, it's well worth the flight! Getting away from Mitilini proved a little more of a task than we'd planned. Once
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6 April – Alexandria to Mitilini
Tue, 03 Dec 2013
Getting out of Egypt was as we expected – a bit of a nightmare. One bit of advice I can give everyone – do not fly a private aircraft into Sudan or Egypt. I am sure there are other countries in the world which are “small private aircraft unfriendly” but in my opinion those 2
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5 April – In Alexandria at the military airport
Tue, 03 Dec 2013
We are now in Alexandria after landing at Borg Al Arab airport which is the local military airport. We mistakenly thought that the airport at Alexandria was closed for repairs. Luckily we are not in trouble – actually everyone is very hospitable and helpful. Now we have to mission through to get out of here
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