The Video of our trip to Oshkosh across the Atlantic is online.
See the fly to Oshkosh video
Rock your wings – Oshkosh arrival
If there would be a champions or premier league for pilots, flying into OSHKOSH during the AirVenture would be it.
We made it! – Touch down Oshkosh.
We made it. After 4 days of flying, 7 countries and 9 landings we arrived safely at the OSHKOSH AirVenture. After multiple extremely adventerous trips in the past (see www.elgounaandback.com just to name one near-death experience) the so called “Warbird”
Moosonee
After a good rest in our “boutique hotel”, a very nice breakfast and a very cold start into the day the next leg of our trip started by being “forgotten” by Iqualits airport employees who were supposed to pick us up
Day 4: Iqualit- Moosonee – Marie Muni Sanderson – Mackinac Island – Oshkosh
Good morning from the middle of nowhere in the Canadian north where Inuit are still real and snow mobiles are everywhere- obviously waiting for winter which can as we learnt be pretty harsh up here with temperatures of -70C. After
Day 1: Stuttgart (Germany) – Le Touquet (France)
After final preparations and packing the plane with safety equipment (which included a keg of swabian beer which is key to survive a week in the US), we after months of preparation took off and started the trip towards Wisconsin,
Our Lady – The Daher TBM 850
If you plan to cross the Atlantic ocean, you better choose a proper plane if you want to make it safely from one end to the other. The route spans across hundreds of kilometers of ice cold water, icebergs, rocky
The route – From Germany over the Atlantic to the USA
The shortest route from Europe to the USA goes via the North – Iceland – Greenland – Newfoundland. Nowadays, commercial airlines always fly direct without the need for a fuel stop. Until the 1970s, fuel stops were the norm and
Time for another adventure
Some of you might remember Achim’s and my last trip from southern Germany (Heubach) to El Gouna, Egypt (see Elgounaandback.com) a few years back. With both of us turning 40 this year and probably driven by a mid-life crisis we thought it is time