African Aeronautics

The first ever manned flying aircraft was a hot-air balloon on 21 November 1783. It was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier & Marquis François d'Arlandes. They flew a distance of 5,5 miles (8851 metres) in Paris for 25 minutes at about an altitude of 3000 feet (914 metres). The balloon was made of paper-lined silk & heated by burning straw & wool. Orville & Wilbur Wright would then make the first mechanical flying aircraft in 17 December 1903 called the Wright Flyer which flew for 12 seconds. Since then, a lot of progress has been made in the aerospace field. 

Africans, arguably made artisanal & hobby flying crafts in precolonial antiquity using various found materials but likely none were manned aircraft. 

We now have African aeronautical engineers with the knowledge & capability of designing & manufacturing professional flying aircraft. So today (7 May 2026), I decided to compile the list of African-made aircraft below: 

• Alkan AT-802 from Ethiopia. 

• Helwan HA-300 is a lightweight supersonic aircraft from Egypt. 

• Air Tractor AT-802U is a Nigerian assembled American aircraft. 

• AHRLAC Mwari is a South African reconnaissance aircraft. 

• SkyBoy aircraft from Uganda built by Innocent Mugabi. 

• Skyleader 400 & Skyleader 600 by Airplanes Africa Limited in Tanzania is an ultralight aircraft of Czech origin. 

Egypt's Helwan HA-300

We have to note that only the Helwan HA-300, AHRLAC Mwari & SkyBoy aircraft were conceptualised, designed & manufactured in Africa. I also left out aircraft made by Apartheid South Africa because they officially classified themselves as European until the end of Apartheid. 

Blog: AFRICAN CREATIONS 

I made this list because I felt that Africans, myself included, could surely make better aircraft than this with modern technical knowledge. 

African-made aircraft 

FXE Mosquito Ultralight Helicopter 

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• Notable people (See where the world's famous were born):  https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people 

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The Jews...

Because of the constant obsession with "the Jews", I felt that they are a race of Semitic people that needed to be studied. By analysing their creation stories, they can be traced to originate from modern-day southern Iraq. How & when they separated from other Semitic people (i. e. Arabs), I don't know. But at some time along their history they settled in Egypt because of a drought & because of growing numbers of the Israelites coming to Egypt, they were decisively enslaved. The Israelites became slaves of the Hamitic people of Ancient Egypt, cousins of Semitic people through biblical accounts. Jews (a name they got after going to Canaan/Israel) were originally called Hebrews or Israelites & Hebrew (Habiru) being a derogatory term in ancient Egyptian meaning "outcasts" fell away in favour of "Israelites'. 

Escaping slavery, they fled Egypt led by Moses & settled on the land of the Canaanites. There they forged their own kingdom. But over the years, they would be conquered by the Greeks, Persians, Romans & others. The last Israelite dynasty to rule Israel/Judaea were the Hasmoneans if I'm not mistaken. At one point, Israelites were brought to Babylon to become slaves once again. 

They were virtually a nation with no state for a large part of their history until the founding of modern Israel, being most famous as slaves & subjects of other empires in their history. Being that they were scattered by the many nations who conquered the Levant, they ended up in Morocco, Britain, Russia, Italy, Germany etc. where they were persecuted on several occasions throughout European history. Now, some of the richest people in the world & some of South Africa's richest billionaires are of Jewish origin. What is so special about Jews other than the fact that the world has bought into a sect of their faith in Christianity? I think the fact that their fatherland is so close to three continents - Israel & Israelites have had a history in all three Old World continents of Asia, Africa & Europe so become some sort of reference point for all humanity & not East Africans / Ethiopians / the Turkana people of Lake Turkana. 

Now, we find that a lot of the vessels that shipped Africans to the New World in the Transatlantic Slave Trade were Jewish owned. I've read that the colonisation of the Americas was to prevent the spread of Islam as a latter-day effort of the European Crusades to defend the "Holy Land" against Persians/Muslims. Knowing that the first slaves used by the Portuguese on an island off the west coast of Africa were Jews who all died there, why were Jewish-owned vessels used in the Transatlantic Slave Trade? 

I feel that the obsession of Europe with "the Jews" has led them to perpetrate unnecessary & outrageous crimes against humanity. Jews are no more human than any other group in the world. If they are given special treatment for merely having an unfortunate history why isn't the same done for the victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade & victims of colonisation in general? 

The piece of history that allowed me to trace Jewish origin to Mesopotamia: 

Yes, Utnapishtim is Noah. 

Is the future really airborne?

Here is something they didn't consider when they waved away the idea of flying cars; no tyres. 

And if everyone used vertical take-off vehicles, road networks would become abandoned & perhaps overrun with vegetation & animals. How would safari trips happen in a flying car? Maybe very easily now that I think of it. 

The Bellwether Oryx "VOLAR".

So the only real danger of an evtol is malfunction & crash landing into some important infrastructure. Something that already happens with cars. Can this be solved with ballistic parachutes? Are aircraft less likely to crash because there a so few of them or is air travel simply safer because of less obstacles to avoid? What then when more aircraft are added? Would it be just as easy to fly? One YouTuber  mentioned something interesting; cars heading in different coordinations could travel at different heights - I imagine vehicles heading in a northerly direction could travel at 800 metres above ground & vehicles heading in a southerly direction could travel at 600 metres above ground or something similar. 

The Jetson One.

The only other problem if vertical take-off vehicles become commonplace is traditional combustion engine mechanics might lose their jobs unless they can adapt to the new technology. The new aircraft would also likely be more electric, so traditional petrol stations would have to repurpose themselves... 

Think of these benefits: 

• Minimal traffic, 

• shorter commute time, 

• no potholes & 

• no need for tyres. 

Are these benefits people are willing to have by conquering a fear of heights in electric flying cars & electric flying motorcycles? I think many would be willing to brave their fear of heights for the four above-mentioned benefits. 

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Select eVTOL vehicles:

• Bellwether Industries 

• Bellwether Oryx 

• Jetson One replicas 

• Leo Coupe