The Sling Squawk – June 2026
7 Jun 2026
…whether it’s a race to Cape Town with a TSi vs a commercial flight, an Atlantic crossing to Oshkosh with three High Wings, a trip to Oshkosh in a prototype as the first leg of a circumnavigation or turning the Tankwa International Airport runway briefly into the busiest in the world, with the biggest gathering of Sling aircraft.
One region though that’s escaped so far is east Africa – until two Dutch customers out of Kenya and Tanzania placed an order for a TSi and a High Wing. All that remained was for the planning of another epic adventure across the plains of Africa.”
– Chris Buchanan (Smoke On Go)
The adventure begins! A month. A fleet of gorgeous aircraft. One unforgettable adventure across Southern Africa with Josh Flowers, Chelsea Smith, their good friends Chris Lammert and Keelyn Costello, and some of us from Sling HQ. In Part 1 of Aviation101’s four-part series, the journey starts with their arrival in South Africa at Sling HQ in the south of Johannesburg, meeting the aircraft that will become their companions, ZU-TSI and ZU-DFU, and taking the first steps — or rather, first flights — into the unknown.