[caption id="attachment_48269" align="alignleft" width="225"] Judy & Boyd Birchler, RV7[/caption] It's official. This afternoon, the flight around the rim crew successfully completed their mission. Woohoo!! The crew of two, me and hubby Boyd Birchler, traded off stick/nav/radio time flying Boyd's home-built RV-7 around the perimeter of the...
Hello, Hello, from Minot, North Dakota. Boyd and I are on the move with moments to post an update, but for what it's worth --- this is it! [caption id="attachment_48220" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Set to depart Kalispell, Montana, the final mountain flight of the trip.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_48221" align="aligncenter"...
Anxious to continue our US perimeter flight, Boyd and I were at the Cascade, Idaho airport bright and early in the morning. Last night had been downright cold and, as guessed, a very light film of frost had formed overnight on our wings. A quick...
Cascade, Idaho. Tiny town. Big mountains. And for 5 heavenly days, lady pilots are everywhere. We are all here to participate in Christina Tindle's 'Woman Wise AWEsome Adventures', a gathering for women pilots where a multitude of advanced flight training options are available. Add to...
The view from our RV7 on our flight around the perimeter continues to impress us. Yakima, Washington to Cascade, Idaho took us from brown hills to high, green ridged mountains. Although we flew over and around some significant terrain, the route we chose always had...
Tonight, Boyd and I are in Yakima, Washington, continuing our flight around the perimeter of America. We visited a number of cities along the northwest perimeter including Orcas Island, Blaine, and Bellingham, the northern most airport we've visited. As we turned eastbound from Bellingham, Washington,...
