Teens build plane flying from Cape to Cairo

"I nearly missed the deadline, but after a week I was excited when U-Dream Global team chose me out of thousands hopefuls who wanted to be part of the project," she said.

"I was a normal teenager who knew nothing about aviation, but I was looking forward to learning a lot about this industry. I had always been interested in flying in a plane, but now I even got to fly outside the country," she said. Seemela was a passenger in the plane which was flown by professional pilots from Cape Town to Luderitz in Namibia then to Windhoek and Victoria Falls before returning home on a commercial flight.

U-Dream Global was founded by teenager Megan Werner, 17, and is aimed for young people to pursue career in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. The teenagers built the plane under the watchful eye of the Airplane factory, U-Dream mentors and Denel Aviation. Bromley Moyo, 18, from Kempton Park, a second year student at Denel Aviation, built the vertical and horizontal stabiliser.

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