Mack's news feed

MackSolo Team Update – Day 69 ✈️ 🌍
Mack is in #Muscat, #Oman 🇴🇲 and is now well on the #Arabian Peninsula. He has left lusher lands for an increasingly desertic 🌵🐪 landscape as he reaches the Tropic of Cancer 🦀. This is the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun ☀️ can be directly overhead. Thi...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 68 ✈️ 🌍
Mack took off from Socotra this morning and has now safely landed in #Muscat, #Oman 🇴🇲 where he was welcomed in style with a water salute. Yihaaaa he has reached the #Arabian Peninsula. For now, the very long sea legs come to an end. Well done Mack on this exhausting part of the j...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 67 ✈️ 🌍
Woooooohooooo Mack has safely landed in #Socotra, #Yemen 🇾🇪, after his second-longest flight (approx. 1000 NM/2000km) over the sea 🌊. It was far from an easy stopover to organise so a huge thank 🙏 you to all making this landing possible (defense force agreements from various countr...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 66 ✈️ 🌍
As Mack is having some well-deserved rest from flying in #Seychelles, we would like to give you a sneaky peek behind the scenes.

This is Sam, Mack's dad, who thanks to his military helicopter 🚁 pilot background and years of flight experience in air rallies, ferry flying and variou...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 65 ✈️ 🌍
Now that Mack is taking a well-deserved rest in #Seychelles, we would like to have a #throwback moment to when he landed in #Kenya 🇰🇪 - about the same latitude as where he is now but on his way South.

It was there that Mack talked to the The Banda School children and was receive...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 65 ✈️ 🌍
Mack has landed in Seychelles 🇸🇨! We repeat! Mack has safely landed in Seychelles on his way back up towards the Arabian peninsula 💪🕺🥳🎉.

The purple dawn light at Mauritius 🇲🇺 was breathtaking this morning and with a good tailwind, Mack set off back North. During his long oversea f...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 64 ✈️ 🌍

Woooooohoooooooo!!! 💪✨🕺💃🏻🥳🎉🍾🎊This morning is a major celebratory moment, as Mack has reached his FIRST ANTIPODAL point near Rodrigues, #indianocean, at coördinates 18.012S 065.02E. He took off at 7H30 local time (3h30 UTC) and landed again in Plaine Magnien, Grand Port, Mauritius ...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 63 ✈️ 🌍
"When it looks too good to be true... it probably is"
You all know the saying, yes? Now let's apply it to Mack's journey.

Since his 7-week delay at the start of his journey, all apparently seems to have been relatively smooth sailing. Or not? What do you think?

Often perhaps it l...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 62 ✈️ 🌍

Yesterday's flight - another 5-hour sea leg - took Mack from #Madagascar 🇲🇬 to #Mauritius 🇲🇺 with an unforgettable aerial approach via the #monolith of La Morne Brabant.

Both countries' history, and therefore aviation history, is closely tied with that of France 🇫🇷 and the neigb...

MackSolo Team Update – Day 61 ✈️🌍

Two days ago, after an 8-hour flight - of which 6 hours solid over water - from Zanzibar to #Antananarivo, #Madagascar, Mack saw this amazing tropical « anvil » cloud! They are generally found in strong #thunderstorms ⛈.

They're often said to look as if a bomb went off because of...