Beech Aero Club

The Alaska Four are back home! Bob Schmidt got home first on Saturday night about 8 PM. Bob and Jennifer were great hosts and let David Snodgrass spend the night and their home. David arrived home about 9:45 AM on Sunday morning. Dan Kirby and Brian Foote arrived at Dan's airport in Ohio on Sunday afternoon after spending the night in Red Wing, MN. They barely escaped the storms at Red Wing on Sunday morning. Brian, the Maine man, arrived home on Monday after spending the night in Williamsport, PA.

We got to fly all of 3 1/2 hours today before weather stopped us. We have thunderstorms to the east and south, with funnel clouds sited toward Edmonton (east of us). We are stuck in a travelodge again tonight. If all goes well, we will leave early tomorrow morning.

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Here are the latest pictures. Weather has held us up at Ft. Nelson, BC. We have camped out most nights but tonight we're staying at a motel.

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Well we made it back to Fairbanks at 12:30 this morning.
We took off out of Nome and heading for Kotsobue, which is just north of the Artic Circle, it was amazing as we flew across into the Artic Circle there was actualy a current change in the water that you could see and pack ice floating under us.

Well it's been a while, we are finally staying in a hotel that has highspeed internet.
Last you all heard we were in Souix City.

Well we made it to Rapid City for the Mt Rushmore/Crazy Horse fly over, we got a couple of good pictures, what a way to see it.

I just got off the phone with Brian Foote. He says that while Alaska is the land of 24 hour sunshine they have not seen too much of that sunshine yet. They are all having a fantastic time in Alaska. I heard some rumor about someone almost landing at a military airport by mistake... but that's just a rumor. Apparently the Fairbanks airport has 42 rows of GA parking. Hopefully they will be able to find their planes to continue on their journey tomorrow!

Here are the first pictures from The Alaska Four. Were on dial-up at Watson Lake, YT.

Hello All
From Suix City Iowa.
Well I got out of Maine yesterday, I had to steal my friend Ann from the airport, to help me fly straight and safe through 3 hours of IFR (crappy weather).

A new News topic has been added called BAC To Akaska in support of the four BAC pilots and two planes that are headed to Alaska. Photos and stories of their journey will be posted here for all to follow. I know Brian was supposed to head out this morning from Maine, but with 500 foot overcast I'm not sure if he got out or not.