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06-08-2010, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Border
Posts: 113
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Count me in for the Northern route.
I've enough family members in Scotland to put the group up for a few days 
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06-08-2010, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Jefferson City, Missouri
Posts: 71
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The pond
i sold my RV 7A to a person in Adelaide, Australia. Jon Johansen ferried it over the Pacific. I think his longest over water was about 13 hours, from the mainland to Hawaii. He was very well prepared. He is a very easy person to talk to and would likely help you with preparation. I can get you an email address for him if you wish.
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06-08-2010, 06:29 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: KANE, Hugo, Minnesota
Posts: 765
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That would be awesome!
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Originally Posted by Masterplumber
i sold my RV 7A to a person in Adelaide, Australia. Jon Johansen ferried it over the Pacific. I think his longest over water was about 13 hours, from the mainland to Hawaii. He was very well prepared. He is a very easy person to talk to and would likely help you with preparation. I can get you an email address for him if you wish.
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Shoot me an email via PM
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Aaron Arvig
RV-9A
Empennage Done
Wings-In Progress
N568AK Reserved
SOLD?but I'll be back
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06-08-2010, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hockessin,Delaware
Posts: 199
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C-GOJU
Mike ? crossed the North Atlantic and back after he built his RV-7A (subsequently converted to an RV-7) about 6 or 7 years ago. He sold the airplane about three years ago (advertised here). When I spoke to him, I asked him why and he told me that he just wanted to do it. He crossed using the Blue Spuce route from CYYR (Goose Bay, NF) across the tip of Greenland to BIKF (Keflavik, Iceland) and then on into Scotland. Same route on the return. I do not know what kind of survival gear he took, but my personal opinion is that this is crazy. Even with a bulky survival suit, if you have to ditch into the North Atlantic you will be dead in a short period of time from hypothermia - unless you are lucky enough to put it down right next to a ship. Even then, upside down first, and then what? fwiw
Best regards,
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06-08-2010, 08:34 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 193
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along those lines...but farther south...and less wet...
...my RV9 ought to be finished in summer...i have a hankering to take it to panama and back sometime before i am too old. anyone else interested in that particular jaunt? more airplanes make for more safe AND more fun! don olandese, south texas
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06-08-2010, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posts: 3,932
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Keep me in mind too... Flying across the Atlantic has always been in the back of my mind.
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1996 RV-6 "Tweety" C-FRBP (formerly N196RV)
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06-09-2010, 08:47 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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I am in
Sometime around 2013?
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Originally Posted by don.olandese
...my RV9 ought to be finished in summer...i have a hankering to take it to panama and back sometime before i am too old. anyone else interested in that particular jaunt? more airplanes make for more safe AND more fun! don olandese, south texas
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06-09-2010, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Posts: 2,182
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Originally Posted by flion
This guy did. Don't think that's what you have in mind, though.
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http://www.southpolestation.com/news/rv4/rv4.html
Also, somewhere out there on the web is a photo of his GPS displaying a fraction of a degree shy of 90 degrees south latitude (89.something degrees south) .
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Airplaneless once again...
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06-09-2010, 07:55 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fl Fort Lauderdale
Posts: 4
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...my RV9 ought to be finished in summer...i have a hankering to take it to panama and back sometime before i am too old. anyone else interested in that particular jaunt? more airplanes make for more safe AND more fun! don olandese, south texas
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Fly it to Costa Rica 
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06-09-2010, 09:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Seattle, wa
Posts: 679
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Roll inverted and ditch upside down so when it flips you are right side up!
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