Terry Musiker, who is the holder of an aeronautical engineering degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, joined The Airplane Factory team. Terry is working on the development of two additional Airplane Factory aircraft models. One of these is a high wing LSA based on the Sling, the other remains for now a secret which

Jean d’Assonville, previously the quality controller and test pilot for Shadowlite, (manufacturer of Jabiru aircraft in South Africa), acquired a minority shareholding in and was appointed a director of The Airplane Factory. Jean is working on the establishment of efficient, consistent and safe production procedures for Airplane Factory Aircraft.

Natal Newspaper reported on the accident.

Below is a post made by Marc Gregson, one of the test pilots who flew the Sling before, on Avcom (South Africa’s largest general aviation forum) with regards to the accident that happened over the weekend. Hi All, Just to answer a few questions, and clear the speculation… I did a large amount of the

The Airplane Factory Sling, which flew around the world during July and August 2009 crashed into the sea at Tinley Manor Beach on Saturday 13 February 2010. Mike, James and the Airplane Factory team are devastated to have lost their round the world Sling, but are hugely relieved that no-one was seriously hurt in the

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

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.