Here is a video of twenty South African teenagers who built their own plane and are flying it from Cape Town to Cairo.

With the support of U-Dream Global, an NGO, the teenagers built different parts of the plane including the fuselage and the horizontal and vertical stabilisers.

Just a few days ago, they were able to get the aircraft into the air and made their first trip to the southern coastal town of Luderitz, Namibia, 1128km away.

The plane has a six-and-a-half hour flying range and other stops on the way to Egypt will be in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea. The overall target of flying it to Cairo, Egypt will be done over a period of six weeks.

They are meant to take a different route flying back that includes stops in Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia and Botswana.

“The purpose of the initiative is to show Africa that anything is possible if you set your mind to it,” said 17-year-old pilot Megan Werner.

Watch the video below

https://zenithnaija.com/meet-south-african-kids-who-built-an-airplane-in-10-days-featured-on-bbc/

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Dope kids

Innovative minds

16 years? Few years before that age Building nylon/paper kite was my dream... God forbid bad thing!

Assembled plane part. Still innovative though

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