Ferry Flying – Delivering Aircraft around the world for MAF

Tomorrow our last leg of our flight to Mareeba, Australia

Nauru has an interesting history. It is a tiny island country and the world’s smallest republic. Nauru at one time had the richest phosphate resources in the world – thanks to the large population of seagulls using the island as a resting spot. Mining operations began in the early 1900’s. The government of Nauru gained … More Kiribati to Nauru

In our hotel we were talking to some young women who work for NGO’s here in Kiribati. They both spoke about how very difficult transportation is here – how to get to some of the other atolls can take days of delay. It just makes me think of the work that MAF does and the … More A day in Kiribati

Finishing up the second long haul leg of 13 and a half hours.  45 is logged on the Hobbs meter – when we began this journey it indicated  8 hours.  N9710M is proving to be an exceptional aircraft.  It is exciting to think of the work and adventures ahead of this Caravan. Pretty remarkable history … More Crossing the International Dateline and onwards to Kiribati

Spent the day on the Island of Hawaii, or also known as the Big Island. We have gone through Hawaii on ferry trips before and one of the things that stuck out for me this time were the remarkable banyan trees. These trees are incredible. Reading up I learned that like a lot of Hawaii’s … More A day on the Big Island

Woke up in Albuquerque- and set off on a beautiful flight across America to Santa Maria California

Third departure attempt and we are off! “That is why the world is round- you never know what’s around the next corner” (Out of Africa by Karen Blixen) What a surprise! We were all set for a few days in Wichita. We had rented a car- booked a dinner reservation in Ponca City (Enrique’s Mexican … More Three times a charm

Best made plans. Our hope was that we would be on the coast of California right now. I guess I did say in my previous post – “we plan…” as opposed to “ we will…”. You can plan as best you can but circumstances always win out! Yesterday started off so well ! Our kids … More Best made plans…

One year later and Dylan and I are off on another ferry flight to Australia – Meereba. Last year exactly at this time we we on our way to Kinshasa, Congo – east rather than west and heading over the Pacific rather than the Atlantic – and towards a country of 102 million and covering … More A new adventure awaits – Moundridge, Kansas to Mareeba Australia!

As we started to hit bad weather we couldn’t help but have the chat of where would be the hardest place to have an emergency landing- jungle or sea or ice cap or the desert Looking down at this massive dense jungle we thought – desert:) The Democratic of Congo – formerly Zaire – is … More Ferry flight to DRC- last leg to Kinshasa

We had the opportunity to see and read up a bit about Cape Verde today These islands were uninhabited until the 15th century when they were discovered and colonized by Portuguese explorers. Cape Verde established the first European settlement in the tropics. Because of where these islands are situated – they became instrumental and the … More Ferry Flight to DRC- Cape Verde