“Madikwe West Traffic, Foxtrot Zulu Foxtrot, Sling 2, turning left base for Runway 08, any traffic?” “Foxtrot Zulu Foxtrot, caution zebras crossing the threshold of Runway 08.” This from a recently landed Cessna Caravan of Federal Air, a South African regional carrier.
What do you get when a guy with a degree in architecture, design, engineering and flight instruction who knows precisely what he wants in an airplane decides to just make one himself? Answer: The light-sport Sling 2.
The Amazing ROTAX AND SLING 2 An aeroplane is a marriage between an airframe and an engine. In fact, a savvy designer begins by selecting an engine that will best give expression to the idea in mind. WW2 would have been quite different without Rolls Royce’s Merlin. It powered the Spitfire and Hurricane that won […]
Sling – England to South Africa – 24 to 31 August 2013 By Andrew Pitman The final chapter of the ‘Sling 4 to Oskosh and Back’ tour started for me boarding an SAA Airbus A340 at O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, routing directly for London’s Heathrow Airport (EGLL.)
Sling at Oshkosh 2013 By Mike Blyth If you have a love affair with flight, then you have not lived until you have experienced the world’s greatest airshow, the annual EAA Airventure airshow and aviation exhibition, held every year in July in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA.
To Airventure, Oshkosh, USA By Gregory Blyth “It’s going to be dangerous,” I remeber my father, Mike Blyth, saying to me when he first asked me to join him to fly the Sling 4 to the USA.
