Earthrounders: round the world flights in light aircraft

June 28, 2007: Congratulations to Barrington Irving for the successful completion of his RTW, becoming, as he put it himself, "the first person of African descent and the youngest pilot" to have done it. He landed on Wednesday 27, at Opa-locka airport in Florida.
http://www.experienceaviation.org/

June 26, 2007: Photo received from Wing Commander Rahul Monga of the Indian Air Force, taken in China of his ultralight aircraft.
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June 23, 2007: Bad news for Avgas: It appears the Avgas shortage in Indonesia could be resolved "circa June 26". Thank you to Mike of White Rose Aviation for the news.
Some concern too from a message from Alfred Ledermann telling of contaminated Avgas from Milas-Bodrum (LTFE),Turkey.

June 19, 2007: As Robert Gannon says from Rio: The Adventure continues....Farhad Rostampour and Arshid Moti-Ghavanin are in Azerbaijan , Barrington Irving is in Shemya, Wojciech Mirski is North Perry, USA, Norman Livingstone and Vajee Misakawan are in Anchorage and U.T. Carstensen will soon fly the second half of his TRW, while Robert Gannon is seeking the blessings of the Cristo Redentor in Rio.
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June 12, 2007: Congratulations to Peter Mennel and Reinhard Flatz for successfuly completing their RTW. They flew their last leg back to Hohenems (LOIH) where they took off 14 days ago on the May 28, 2007. They flew 83 houres, one of the fastest RTW. More...

June 9, 2007: Peter Mennel and Reinhard Flatz arrived on the Azores with thier Bonanza N5NZ, landing in Horta.
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June 8, 2007: Another circimnavigator has swung through South America recently - in general, a rare choice of routing. On June 3rd, Wojciech Mirski visited Earthrounders Hans Kampik in Belo Horizonte and Gérard Moss in Brasilia, and is now heading up through the Caribbean and the States on his way back to Switzerland.
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June 5, 2007: Farhad Rostampour, a US based pilot and his UK based co-pilot, Arshid Moti-Ghavanin, started on June 2 a record-breaking flight around the world with a F33TC Bonanza. They will be the first Iranians to ever attempt to circle the globe with their aircraft. Wishing them the best of tail winds...
http://freedomflight.info/en/index.php

June 1, 2007: Ralf and Marga Hannemann of Germany will start their RTW in October 2007 in their 2003 Partenavia P68C, D-GHAN. Fair winds and happy landings...
www.geier-flyer.com

June 1, 2007: On 24th April 2007, Manuel Queiroz was presented with one of the world's greatest aviation awards, the Britannia Trophy by the President of the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, HRH The Duke of York at the Royal Air Force Club in Piccadilly, London.
Last year, he flew solo around the world in just 39 days in a single-engine aeroplane, becoming the first and only pilot to circumnavigate the globe in a British-registered homebuilt aircraft.
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www.chasingthemorningsun.com

May 30, 2007: They are on their way...
Norman Livingstone (Norm) and Vajee Misakawan (Lec) departed Boundary Bay Airport, Vancouver for Juneau Alaska on the first leg of their RTW trip. They will spend 2 weeks in Alaska before heading East across Canada then over the North Atlantic to Scandinavia. Wishing them fair winds and kind weather.
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www.around-the-world-2007.com/

May 28, 2007: Congratulations to Jens Abilgaard who touched down in Odense (EKOD), Denmark on May 26, 2007 at 1358 UTC. He was welcomed in style with 2 firetrucks saluting him and a small delegation from the local flying club.
www.hosbiz.com
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May 27, 2007: Rebecca and Gregg Bartlett are continuing what Rebecca claims will be the "Slowest Flight Around the World" and she sent more very valuable information on flying in Central America. See the Flight Info Page and their Web Site: www.cheekymooney.com

May 26, 2007: Congratulations to Jennifer Murray and Colin Boddil for completing on May 24, 2007 their Pole to Pole flight in a Bell helicopter.
http://www.polarfirst.com/

May 26, 2007: Wing Commander Rahul Monga announces his departure on June 1,at 0800 hours from Delhi for a RTW in a microloght. If all goes well, he should finish the trip on 04 Aug 07.

May 25, 2007: RTW with a difference...
The SolarImpulse team, led by Earthrounder Bertrand Piccard aims to fly a solar-powered aircraft around the world toward 2011.
From AVweb

May 25, 2007: On May 27, 2007 Dr. Peter Mennel and Dr. Reinhard Flatz will take off from Hohenems (LOIH) Austria for their Eastward RTW in Bonanza N5NZ.

May 12, 2007: We are delighted to announce that, in honour of Frank Hettlich, Dorise and her three daughters Claudia, Bianca and Malaika have accepted the challenge of going ahead with organizing the next Earthrounders meeting in Capetown.
Click here for the preliminary programme

May 8, 2007: Congratulations to Arnim Stief and Markus Henkell who completed their Round the World Flight with their Cirrus SR 22 N241PK on Thursday 3, 2007. They arrived at 07:03 pm at Egelsbach airport (now called Frankfurt-Egelsbach) in Germany and were welcomed by a big crowd of friends and the press. They totally flew 208 hours on their trip and got over a distance of about 52000 km. The plane always performed well over the whole trip.

May 7, 2007: We are still awaiting the final programme of the meeting to be held in South Africa in early March 2008 (dates to be confirmed soon), but if you are planning on taking a commercial flight there, you might like to think about hiring a plane and doing some local flying before or after the event. Details

April 29 2007: The Bonanza registration CS-AZI ("Alice 19") that belonged to intrepid Portuguese wheelchair aviator, António Faria e Mello, in which he made two circumnavigations (the last one during the Earthrounders meeting in Perth, in 2003) has been donated to the Museu do Ar, in Sintra, Portugal, by his family.
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Antonio in 2001

April 29 2007: Preparations for the South Africa meeting well under way. Full details coming soon. Watch this space.

April 28 2007: Another RTW will start soon: Farhad Rostampour plans to start his RTW from the USA in a Bonanza on June 2. www.freedomflit.org

April 25, 2007: More RTWs in the planning: The Indian Air Force will be conducting an eastward RTW in a CTSW microlight, starting June 1 with a crew of two - Wing Commander Rahul Monga (Captain) and Wing Commander Anil Kumar.

While a group of pilots plans their RTW in 2008 with 4 home-built twin engine Air Cams. They will fly from Israel via Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazachastan, China, Japan, Russia(Kamchatka), Alaska, Canada, USA, Greenland, Faeroe-Islands, Norway, Denmark, across Europe to Greece, and back to Israel via Cyprus..

April 22, 2007: Hearfelt congratulations to Jennifer and Colin for reaching the North Pole by helicopter. Wishing them a safe flight back home.

April 08, 2007: Earthrounders Webmaster Claude Meunier met famous Earthrounders Gaby Kennard (RTW 1989) in Sydney and Cliff Tait (RTW 1969) in Auckland NZ, as well as "Earthrounder to be" Bill Charney, with his beautifull Staggerwing, at the Omaka Airshow in New Zealand.
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In the meantime, several RTWs are progressing well:
Wojciech Mirski has arrived in Chili after a successful crossing of the South Pacific from Tahiti.
Barrington Irving is in St John's, Canada, waiting for better weather.
Jens Abilgaard has reached Hilo in Hawaii, and is going well.
Jennifer Murray and Collin Bodill have reached Resolute where they met with some bad weather.
U. T. Carstensen and S. Rothammel are in Singapore and are going well.