“Keen to show off their new High Wing variation of the well-regarded low-wing Sling TSi, South African airframer, Sling Aircraft, has done so in spectacular fashion by flying the prototype...
“We’re not the first to call it an upside-down Sling. When company test pilot, Sean Russell, talks about the airplane, he refers to it as “the upside-down one.” Indeed, if...
“So what do you do when you’re visiting some folks who have a new airplane? You hop in for a sunrise flight to find some breakfast and maybe take in...
“Today we got our first chance to fly the new High Wing Sling, two different versions, in fact! Sling has been flying the tricycle-gear version for quite a while now...
“This is what “vertical Integration” gets you in a world of supply chain issues. Sling Aircraft produces almost everything for their line of aircraft in-house. From building their own spars,...
“My introduction to Captain Linda Sollars on Friday 10 June at the Sling Aircraft manufacturing facility at Tedderfield Airpark was amazing. From the very moment I was introduced to this...
“Linda’s love affair with aviation was born as a young girl reading Snoopy and the Red Baron and watching movies like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, she realised at that young...
