Megan’s Sling 4 trip from Cape Town to Cairo

Описание: A group of 20 South African high school students have built and flown a Sling 4 airplane from Cape Town, South Africa to Egypt, a distance of nearly 6,500 nautical miles. The BBC reports that the U-Dream Global project was founded by 17-year-old pilot Megan Werner. The purpose of the programme was to ‘show Africa that anything is possible if you set your mind to it.’ The teens took three weeks to build the Sling 4 from a kit manufactured by The Airplane Factory. The journey included stops in Namibia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, Tanzania and Uganda before ending in Egypt. They were accompanied by a second Sling 4 airplane flown by professional pilots for most of the trip, but there were times when the six teenagers of the group who are licensed pilots were all alone. One of those was the last, 10-hour leg from Addis Ababa to Cairo via Aswan, where Werner said she and safety pilot Driaan van den Heever flew without the support aircraft.
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