Mack's news feed

MackSolo Team Update – Day 56 ✈️🌍

Since he has entered the #African continent, it is, for now, all Hakuna Matata for Mack!!! 👌💪🙏

This morning he landed in #Nairobi, #Kenya and is almost a quarter of the way through his round-the-world journey ✈️. On his way, he crossed the #Equator and had a lucky weather window ☀...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 55 ✈️🌍

#Jambo Everyone! Mack has now safely landed in #Lokichogio, #Kenya after an early departure from Khartoum. Don't forget to switch on your audio 🎧 for the in-flight videos!

For his African route, Mack has loosely been following the route of the early Imperial Airways aviators ✈️: f...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 54 ✈️🌍

Roughly following the #Nile upstream, Mack has reached #Khartoum, #Sudan 💪. Egypt knowing a very strict policy around General Aviation, small #aircraft have to follow “Airways” that commercial airliners have to #fly – look at it as highways for aircraft. Therefore, as long as Mack...

MackSolo Team Update: Day 53 ✈️ 🌍

Mack is on a roll now! Yihaaa! 💪🤞

Yesterday, he took off from #Caïro and, following the Nile for a while, landed in Luxor, where the #Pharaohs are sleeping in the Valley of the Kings and Queens.

Whilst sharing some pictures of Mack absorbing the ancient history of this rich civil...

Mack finally 🛬 landed in #Africa! His wheels touched ground near #Caïro, #Egypt yesterday, where he stayed at a dear friend's house.

Not just any house though 🏠. @https://www.facebook.com/timur.hadidi built the first #ecological house in Egypt, made only of #recycled materials he was able to find in the area. You ...

MackSolo Team Update: Day 52 ✈️ 🌍

Wooooohooooooo 💪!!! After more than 7 weeks of being held up since his take-off in Bulgaria - for as many different reasons as geopolitical turmoil, bureaucracy, and paperwork nightmares 😬🥴📂🗄📇 - Mack is back in the air 💪✈️!!! His first stop is #Alexandria, then #Caïro Egypt.

It fe...

MackSolo Team Update: Day 45 ✈️ 🌍

Let’s tell you what is going on in the Macksolo project in terms of #aviation & #meteorology: the last few weeks, have not been fun. The sky has gone from "overcast" 🌫 to "broken" 🌥, "scattered" 🌤 and now "few"☀️… Few what? Clouds? Well, paperwork hell rather😬🥴📂🗄📇.

The nightmare 🤯...

MackSolo Team Update: Day 26 ✈️ 🌍

Whether you celebrate this time of the year as a Renewal of Things with nature's awakening, the Christian resurrection of Jesus, or any other form of belief: Happy #Easter to everyone!!! 🐇🐣

We would like to tell you about an island 🏝. Not Easter Island though as it's not on Mack's...

MackSolo Team Update: Day 23 ✈️ 🌍

Mack has been checking in on Sharky 🦈 regularly and it looks like he (or is it a she 😂) is picking up some dust in Heraklion Airport.

Probably time to give her a bath 🛀 and some TLC soon, just like he did in Syracusa.😅

Hopefully, only a couple more days and Mack will be on his wa...

MackSolo Team Update: Day 21 ✈️ 🌍

How do you fill your days when waiting for the stars to align?

Well, apart from probably too much screen time, it seems to be: supper with his generous host Nikos (Nikolaos Makrakis), local #pancakes(look at that smile), roaming around, and then there is... DIY! 😅

So do you thin...