Today’s flight was planned from Whiteman to Santa Maria, but we had to divert from our route. Not for fuel. Not to avoid weather. The reason that took us away from our flight path was much important…
There was no way we could fly in the Los Angeles basin and not take a picture of the [...]
When we took-off from Chino this morning, we used a slightly different radio call-sign: “Cessna 512R flight of two”. This is the standard phraseology for formation flying. Formation flying? Yes, our lead supporter in Chino flew with us to Catalina Island in his own Cessna 150. We took-off side by side and flew to the [...]
By the moment we write these words, we just received the news about an aircraft that crashed short of the runway at Catalina Island. Our thoughts go to the victims and their relatives. Apparently the pilot suffered chest pain and reported to the tower that he could not make it.
Many of you reacted on Twitter, [...]
Today was one of the longest flying day since we started this trip across America. We flew from Tucson to Blythe, then to Palm Springs and finally to Chino, in five hours. This also was one of the warmest days. The temperature in Blyth was above 100°F at 10:30 am. We had a lot of [...]
Our overnight stop in El-Paso has been troubled by a thunderstorm. The hotel’s roof above Jason’s room was not waterproof and part of his room got soaked and Jason had to change room at 10pm.The winds and rain were so strong that we were worrying for N512R. The aircraft was not in a hangar.
Back at [...]
Today started in Sweetwater, TX under a solid layer of cloud, reported at 1.400 feet above ground level. Not exactly what we wanted for our first day of mountain flying. Flying at 1.000 feet above ground in an area packed with windmills felt like wrong, so we decided to delay our departure. The flight from [...]
Before telling more about today’s flight, we’ve to publish one picture from Houston. Lots of you want to see the smile of the 5 years old boy that took a discovery flight on N512R yesterday at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. It was not possible to upload it yesterday because of our bad internet connection, [...]
We spent today at the Beechcraft fly-in organized by the 1940 Air Terminal Museumin Houston. This was a great opportunity to promote General Aviation. We had the opportunity to talk in front of more than 50 aviation people about the values we promote and defend. The formal speaking was followed by a lot of discussions [...]
This post is a (very brief) summary of our day in Houston. Brief because the day was so intense that we came back to our hotel at 10pm. We started with a visit of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Seeing the original Apollo Mission Control Center was an intense moment. We also visited the Saturn V [...]