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The Fun to Fly Remos GX will crisscross North America in 2010. |
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| Nov. 11-13, 2010 | AOPA Aviation Summit | Long Beach, Calif. |
| Future events will be added to this schedule as information becomes available. | ||
2010 Fun to Fly Sweepstakes Blog
Safe and sound in Santa Paula
Hailstones the size of golf balls in Arizona. Snow in Nevada. Looks like the Southwest’s weather patterns are starting to heat up, so to speak. You better believe that I’m relieved the Fun to Fly Remos is safe and snug in a hangar at Santa Paula airport as I write this. Our final leg to [...]
Barstow: the last fuel stop
About the only thing I knew about Barstow, California, was that it was the subject of a quote from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. When Patrick and I landed at Barstow-Daggett airport last Thursday, it represented an important milestone for the Fun to Fly Remos’s trek out West: our last fuel stop [...]
Arms wide open in Arizona
When we started planning how to get the Fun to Fly Remos from one coast to the other, we asked you for stopping points along the southern route–and you did not disappoint. Arizonans in particular were bursting with ideas, especially Flight Training contributing editor Greg Brown, who bases his Flying Carpet at Flagstaff. There were [...]
Long day’s journey into Albuquerque
Today and our next day in the Fun to Fly Remos are where the rubber meets the airway, so to speak. Today Patrick and I, flatlanders both, encountered our first real mountains. (Yes, I know we have the Appalachians, but they basically serve as a means of holding in the haze.) And there are more [...]
A great day in a Great State
Thanks to my Twitter friend Nikolas Keramidas for the title of this blog, but it’s an apt observation. Yesterday our trip in the Fun to Fly Remos gave us good weather and a tailwind for the very first time. Launching out of Wichita, at 7,500 feet we saw 87 knots indicated airspeed, 119 knots over [...]
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