Flying Across America

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Day -10: Meet us in Baton Rouge on the 22nd and 23rd of June

We will land in Baton Rouge on the 22nd of June at approximately 1pm and stay there until the 23rd in the early afternoon. We will be at PAI Aero, an assisted self-service FBO located on the south ramp of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport. We invite all aviation fans to join us there and [...]

Day -15: 512R’s annual and more work…

15 days before our departure, there are no days off anymore. Preparing the collaborations at all our stops is a lot of work and it’s great to see the General Aviation community reacting to our project. I just checked while wrting this post, my @flyingacrossamerica.com inbox contains more than 3000 messages… Getting everybody posted is [...]

Win a plane !

On the 24th of June we’ll be at Houston Hobby Airport and visit the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. The museum is run by a great team of volunteers which organize events and care for the collections. They also run a giveaway to help with the funding. The prize is nothing else than… a Cessna 172! [...]

Merry Christmas !

After a very busy month of December, Christmas is finally here. We launched this website one year before the start of our planned flight across America, and last week we crossed the 6 months mark. After a very active initial phase, with the definition of our routes in both directions, and lots of contacts, we [...]

What a start ! Thank you for that

This blog has been online for three days and we received lot of support and feed-back. It’s really good to see many of you interested in our project and want to take part in it. This is the proof that our belief that aviation creates friendship and solidarity is true !
Kimberly Risley from www.krizphoto.com created [...]

Here we go…

In exactly one year from now, I’ll push the throttle of N512R and take-off from Daytona Beach, under Jason’s supervision. This will be the first of many legs of the coast to coast flight we prepare to promote General Aviation. We believe in the benefits of general aviation and want to spread the word.
We plan [...]