You are attached to the wing, and you feel every sensation, every movement, every breath of air that goes by." "It's what Icarus dreamed of," McAfee says after landing. McAfee, the man behind McAfee anti-virus software, is helping to bring a new type of aviation to the Southwest.Īerotrekking is a sport that involves following the terrain, often skimming just a few feet above the ground, visiting wild and beautiful places that could never be reached on foot or by car. Wind whistles through the pilot's hair as he guides the plane over ocotillos and cattle on the floor of Rodeo Valley. It skips over the tips of ponderosa pines and dodges rock formations at 85 mph. Suddenly, the winged tricycle dives into Cave Creek Canyon. In the glow of a monsoon sunrise, John McAfee guides his kite-wing aircraft between granite spires in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona.Ī waterfall spills from cliffs below as he yells to his backseat passenger, "Hang on now, and don't panic!" In 2021, while McAfee was facing extradition for tax-related charges, authorities in Spain announced he had been found dead. Years later, John McAfee would leave the United States and later face criminal charges. This story was originally published in The Arizona Republic on Aug.
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