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This post is part of the five pieces that make up 2013’s How To Fly Across. I read the comments on AirNav sometimes and I am shocked. Pilots complain about a thirty cent per gallon difference in price for fuel, … Continue reading →

This post is part of the five pieces that make up 2013’s How To Fly Across. For us, the most daunting portion of the cross-continental journey is getting past the Rockies. It is always summer time and the combination of … Continue reading →

This post is part of the five pieces that make up 2013’s How To Fly Across. I made a very detailed post about the items we packed into the plane on the first flight across. The list has not changed … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in the previous post about having to repair the blog I was surprised to bump into one of this blog’s readers in Souix Falls, South Dakota. Apparently he was going to fly from Camarillo, California up into Michigan … Continue reading →

I am embarrassed how long it took us to find it, but there is a delightful little two mile hike around the airport out on Catalina. Above is the Runkeeper track of the last time I hiked it, with Dexter … Continue reading →

Things just move way too fast. This is Abel Tazman Lehman, Adam’s son. He’s only two, but he already dwarfs a Kansan variant of the Beech D18. He is very into trucks, cars, tractors, airplanes, anything with a motor. He is … Continue reading →

Our plane is registered with a vanity tail number, N971RD. It means that Rudy and Dexter were nine and seven when we got the plane (and I have just the one wife). It seems astonishing, but Rudy is now seventeen … Continue reading →

This is Swayne Martin. If I had managed to get into aviation a little sooner, and if I have been born a little later, I like to think that I would be as focused, optimistic and communicative as him. I … Continue reading →