Biggest: SA Flyer is Africa’s largest selling aviation magazine

Best: SA Flyer brings its readers a core of world class writers, particularly its columnists who range from American Flying’s Peter Garrison to world renowned instructor Jim Davis. Numerous surveys by aviation forums show SA Flyer is by far the number one choice amongst all the aviation magazines in Africa

African sales: It is the only magazine that has retail sales throughout southern Africa as well as distribution across the rest of Africa

Target market: SA Flyer most effectively reaches the owners and operators of aircraft, as opposed to “wannabees”. This is confirmed by aircraft sales companies finding that they get the best response from SA Flyer. In the past we have tended to focus on the lighter side of general aviation but in 2008 this changed to include corporate jets and more Aviation industry news

This month’s opening shot celebrates the achievements of Nigel Hopkins and Larry Beamish in the recent Grand Aero Challenge.

The picture is of Nigel Hopkins rolling his new MX2, N88MX, upwards after take-off from Zoltan Veres’s private grass airfield in Hungary. The aircraft is the one that Larry beamish recently flew across the Atlantic.

The picture was taken by Larry’s son Jason, who was sitting in the front cockpit. Jason uses a Canon Ixus 95 ‘point and shoot’ which is light and small enough for an aerobatic cockpit. Exposure was f2.8 at 1/200 second at 100 ISO.