ExecuJet Sponsors The U-Dream Global’s Cape To Cairo Programme

U-Dream Global’s Cape to Cairo Programme is an ambitious aviation outreach initiative for teenagers, founded by teenager Megan Werner.

Megan is a teen pilot, author and motivational speaker. Her passion to make a difference founded U-Dream Global to inspire her peers to follow their dreams. That is when she came up with the idea to build a plane and fly it across Africa and in so doing inspire teenagers to set huge goals and dreams and then equip them to achieve those dreams.

The first phase of the programme was to build the aircraft.

A group of high school students were invited to participate in a competition where the top 20 finalists were selected to build a Sling 4 aeroplane during the June/July 2018 school holidays. The Sling 4 building project commenced from 22^nd June until 16^th July 2018 by the top 20 finalists.

During this process, ExecuJet sponsored:

Clothing items (branded jackets, beanies and scarves),
Branded company vehicle for the duration of the building process,
Food in conjunction with Wings,
Braai on the last Friday of the project

The second phase of the programme is to fly the aircraft from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt.

Now Megan and her team of young pilots are ready to embark on the Cape to Cairo flight. The maiden flight for the Sling 4 took place on 8^th June 2019 at Tedderfield Air Park in Eikenhof, South Africa.

The departure of the Sling 4 took place on Saturday, 15^th June 2019 from Cape Town. Abel Dlamini, a pilot from ExecuJet is part of the crew and will fly in the Sling from Cape Town as far as Windhoek, Namibia.

A press conference was held on Friday 14^th June 2019 at the ExecuJet Cape Town facility prior to the planned departure.

In the second phase of the project, ExecuJet will be sponsoring the following: