“I’m sitting on my bed in Cambridge, in my friend Tim Parsonson’s home after a wonderful flight from Switzerland to Top Farm – Sling Central in the UK. My flying trip is essentially over save for a little hop or two around the UK. I’ve missed out on various sections – Panarea, flying to Switzerland

“I’m safe and sound on the beautiful Bressaucourt Airfield in north-western Switzerland after what was really a pretty harrowing flight over the Alps yesterday evening. Take a look at this place on Google Earth. It’s kind of the height of Swiss organisation and development. Everything works, everything is perfectly manicured, there’s not a piece of

“We made it to Serifos, but kind of only just! When we arrived in Portorož, the Slovenian immigration and customs officials absolutely insisted that having arrived in the European Union, and in a Schengen country moreover, there was no need to travel from airport of entry to airport of entry. Taking that to heart, we

“Reykjavík to Scotland and on… Jirra, I can’t really even remember from where I last posted. I only vaguely remember having a lovely birthday day in Reykjavík! We asked for “sight-seeing” over the volcano on the way out of Iceland and were enthusiastically invited to sight-see as we wished – low-level, inside of the Keflavik

“We’ve had the most wonderful day in Reykjavík – but after a bit of a rocky start. To be honest, we arrived quite shattered and a little bit grumpy with one another. But, today was my birthday, so after a 13-hour sleep, we pretty much hit the town. The flight out of Greenland was beautiful.

“OK, I’m already getting Avcom withdrawal and I see some conjecture which may not be 100% right! Well, I abandoned SHW’s ferry tanks in Nassau, but I carried Linda’s across to Florida so she could store them for future use. No one in the USA cares if you use ferry tanks in an experimental aircraft

“The great switcheroo! What a weird day! It turned out that JP and his flying partner, William, are both entitled to enter the USA only on “ESTA” arrangements – Their having German and New Zealand passports respectively. The effect of that is that they cannot fly in on their own aircraft, but must travel into

“I’m sitting in the Barbados Beach Club hotel in Bridgetown and tracking the three High Wings on the Sling Aircraft website. It’s amazing to watch this and share the experience while sitting comfortably next to the hotel pool. Having spent the last week travelling with the three beautiful Sling High Wings, I know exactly what

“It’s now 1h00 am in the Bahamas and I should be sleeping but we’ve had truly the most magnificent day’s flying. It quite honestly feels like a month, not a week since we left Johannesburg. I can hardly believe we’ve come this far and that, failing catastrophe, we should be in Oshkosh by Wednesday mid-morning

“I’m afraid we’ve been running on empty for quite a number of days and I literally haven’t had a moment to get onto the internet, write some thoughts and post some photographs. Cape Verde, her people, refueling (from the nearby Shell garage), leaving before sunrise, the 2,100 nm flight to Barbados and Barbados itself were