Retired dentist's bird's-eye view of Australia from his homemade jet aircraft
- strongamanda1
- Jul 20, 2023
- 1 min read
Look up on any sunny weekend on the NSW south coast and you may just see a 5-metre-long bright red jet shooting along the coastline.
What you might not notice, as it shoots past at nearly 500 kilometres per hour, is that the jet is homemade — the first of its model to be flown outside of America.
It took retired dentist Andre Viljoen more than 3,000 hours in his small hangar in Moruya to build the plane from a kit he ordered online.
But when he is gliding 500 feet above the coastline, it is worth it.
"It's probably like being in a very, very fast racing car," Dr Viljoen says.
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