This 2006 Maule M-7-260 has 1,213 hours on the airframe and 330 hours since overhaul on its 260 hp Lycoming IO-540 engine.
The company today is operating over 26 aircraft and employing over 40 pilots, flying to Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. For Henderson, flying over the bush is a return of sorts, as she did a scenic ...
Bush flying is not for the faint of heart ... He is 65 now, and back when he was starting, he had gotten a private pilot license in the US while working there as a mechanical engineer.
Bush flying is not for the faint of heart ... He is 65 now, and back when he was starting, he had gotten a private pilot license in the US while working there as a mechanical engineer.
Pretty soon, her bedroom walls were covered with images of vintage airplanes, and she was convinced she'd be a bush pilot in Alaska one day. She became a journalist instead, which is also somewhat ...
One of these pilots, Kaone Masilonyane, who started flying for local charter company ... why pilots in the Okavango Delta are called bush pilots as you begin your descent: before landing, wildlife ...