RVators like to do a lot of things--use their speed to fly long distances and see things, fly formation, do aerobatics, land at challenging strips, and just enjoy flying. I've flown plenty of cross countries, but always wanted to do something bigger. Instead of just flying to one place, I wanted to do a trip that was just as much about the journey itself. In my old squadron big cross countries always got named "the cross country of justice". I read Stephen Coonts's "Cannibal Queen", Richard Bach, and about the Buck Brothers doing similar things when I was growing up and had always wanted to do the same. Life never gets less busy and it's always so easy to just keep putting it off. No more. Today was day one of a two-week trip around the US; coast to coast and back, from highest (airport) to lowest.
Aussie and his RV-8 will be joining me tomorrow, but today I kicked off the trip by flying to Kitty Hawk with my brother and fellow pilot. Being in North Carolina I've been to Kitty Hawk many times, but I figured there's no better way to start the journey than with my brother, at the site of another two brothers over a hundred years ago; first flight of this airplane trip at the site of the first airplane flight in history.
Aussie and his RV-8 will be joining me tomorrow, but today I kicked off the trip by flying to Kitty Hawk with my brother and fellow pilot. Being in North Carolina I've been to Kitty Hawk many times, but I figured there's no better way to start the journey than with my brother, at the site of another two brothers over a hundred years ago; first flight of this airplane trip at the site of the first airplane flight in history.
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