A light aircraft proudly designed and manufactured in South Africa? Check✔️ Widely exported to all parts of the world? Check✔️ Internationally recognised? Check✔️ Of course, don’t just take our word for it. Athol Franz of African Pilot has the low down! Read The African Pilot Full Article Here
For those of you who were unable to join the EAA USA Virtual Event with Sling Aircraft founder, Mike Blyth, please feel free to view the webinar available now! “Building and Flying Sling Aircraft” was hosted last Wednesday evening and covered our Sling series of amateur-built and Light Sport Aircraft and included our history of
“For this article, “I am Brand”, we have selected a truly unique and exciting South African story. Sling Aircraft situated at Tedderfield Airpark, Johannesburg, South Africa, is a hangar complex where the Sling range of Aircraft are designed and manufactured. This is where the magic happens. Adventurers, aviators and founders of Sling Aircraft, Mike Blyth
After the lock-down that had kept the majority of pilots grounded for months, the aviation community were hungry for a reason to get out flying and meet up with old friends. The Sling Aircraft Breakfast Fly-in in October presented the perfect opportunity to do just that. Sling Aircraft have always practiced “giving back” to the
“I arrived at Tedderfield Air Park early on Saturday morning 17 October 2020 to see many aircraft, mainly Slings, had already landed at the airfield. Strict COVID-19 protocols were observed as the visitors enjoyed their breakfast under an assortment of umbrellas in the sunshine. Andrew Pitman told me that Sling had recently celebrated orders for
“This year, Sling Aircraft’s annual breakfast fly-in, the best ever attended, celebrated the company breaking the 600 mark of Sling 2 and 4’s sold. With 328 sold, the Sling 2 is slowly inching towards the 400 mark whilst the Sling 4 and Sling TSi, the company’s best sellers, at 281 are just short of the
So, what is the ideal training aircraft to satisfy the demands of modern-day, high flight time, fixed-wing flight school operations? Well, that depends. Legacy 60-70s era C172 / PA28 used to be that aircraft. However, the goalposts have moved considerably with today’s demanding flight training requirements. To a point where the typical legacy aircraft of the
Based on the tried and tested, highly acclaimed Sling 2, the Sling LSA was built for heroic adventure. Designed to be a perfectly balanced aircraft, the Sling LSA is a sexy looker that would out-perform other aircraft in its class while being highly economical and fun to fly. Being a stressed-skin, semi-monocoque aircraft, the Sling
“Human beings have always been fascinated with the concept of flight and our ability to conquer the skies is a real triumph of human ingenuity. But given the level of risk involved in putting people in the air, airplanes are extremely difficult to build and market without a big brand behind you. As an industry,
A South African kitplane manufacturer – The Airplane Factory (TAF) – is going from strength-to-strength, having just announced a brand new aircraft. The new high-wing version of TAF’s four-seater; the Sling TSi, was revealed at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture event in Oshkosh, USA. The Sling TSi was, itself, a brand new aircraft just
