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New giveaway: Airbus Goodies!

Vincent had the luck to visit the Airbus site in Toulouse, and came back with some goodies for you, so… It’s giveaway time again!
The rule is simple: any miles purchase between now and the 13th of February at 1900 UTC qualifies for a random selection of winners. We’ve a red Airbus A380 “Remove before flight” [...]

New starting point, and some update

As Jason recently changed homebase, our flight will no longer start from Ocala, but from nearby Dunnellon airport. The rest of the route is unchanged, we still plan to fly first to Daytona Beach and then all the way to Santa Catalina Island, and back.
Now that my flight out of Frankfurt is booked, we’ll soon [...]

2010, here we come !

Shortly before changing years, I made a new step towards the realisation of our project, which makes it feel more real… On the 30th of December, I bought my flight ticket from Frankfurt to Jacksonville and back. I will fly on American Airlines, from Frankfurt to Dallas, and from Dallas to Jacksonville, on the 18th [...]

The “Flying Across America” drinkware is here!

Here’s a new original way to support our project: buy drinkware decorated with our logo! Our online shop now contains mugs, travel mugs, can coolers, glasses. Treat yourself or your friends, and show your support to what we do.

The price of each item includes a 2 Miles purchase. You can also buy tee-shirts and mousepads [...]

Can we really get ready ?

Beside our busy lives, we continue to prepare for our flight across America. We had not a lot of time to blog recently, mostly because life happens, but many things are going on behind the scene. We build new relationships, expand our network, collect arguments that we’ll use to promte General Aviation, refine the route, [...]

The Flyabout giveaway is over - Thanks to all participants

The giveaway we organized around the Flyabout movie is now over. We want to say thank you to all those who left a comment. The answer were varied and great fun to read. From pole to pole, to flying to Hawaii, and also a very nice circuit in the pattern on someone’s first solo flight.
We [...]

A word from our giveaway winners

Our August giveaways winners are Keith Jones (@keithjjones) and Chandra Almond (@chandra_pearl). Both knew about our giveaway via Twitter, where they follow our account, @FlyingAcrossUSA.
Being the first winners, Keith being the first to be selected, he could choose between the two CD-ROM courses from Max Trescott and he decided to have the G1000. Chandra got [...]

Time’s up - August giveaway is now over

Just a short note to let you all know that our August giveaway is now over. We’ll randomly pick the winners and inform them very soon. If they agree, we’ll publish their names here.
A warm thanks to all those who bought miles during the last month and took part in this giveaway. We’ll start a [...]

General Aviation’s impact on Iowa, via Paul from askacfi.com

Paul Tocknell, from www.askacfi.com has a fascinating post today about General Aviation’s Impact on Iowa. We won’t reveal all details here - you can read them from Paul’s post - but we have to quote that:
In this report they detail how the aviation industry has a 5.4 Billion dollar impact on that state. Even more [...]

August giveaways: G1000 and GPS / WAAS CD-ROMs from Max Trescott

We’re really excited to announce this month’s giveaways: one G1000 CD-ROM course and one GPS and WAAS CD-ROM course, both from Max Trescott. The G1000 course covers both VFR and IFR operations. I can testify it’s a good one, I used my own copy to prepare for my G1000 training. You can read more about [...]