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15 – Flying south of Winnipeg on the way to Brandon
Some people think the prairies are boring…but as you can see some of the shapes are great!
Articles by root
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14 – The two Rebels resting at Piney
The weather is gradually getting better as we go. Still a little bumpy but no more showers. Next stop Brandon.
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13 Piney is very unique. You land and go to the Customs office depending on which direction your’e flying..
The runway is half in Canada and half in the US.
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12 – It’s getting better the closer we get to Canada
I was flying along with the window open and as Tom said on the radio “Have I told you how happy I am to be here today!” Just great!
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11 – what a great contrast
Still northern Minnesota, straight road, railroad, with another shower in the distance
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10 still had to fly around some isolated showers on the way to Piney
Isolated thunderstorm in northern Minnesota, it was a little rough but still beautiful.
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09 – Flying northwest from McGregor to Piney MN
An almost perfectly round lake, you can only think that it might have been a meteorite.
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08 – McGregor MN – 24hour Mogas, access to the lounge, crew car, and great lunch downtown.
Crew car with Tom adding some Mogas in the BG You know it’s an amazing community when you can phone ahead and get this type of ground support and access without ever seeing anyone.
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07 – Iron Mountain showing it’s colors through the fog
Just east of Ashland WI.
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06 – Heading west from Houghton with McGregor
South shore of Lake Superior Tom looks good!
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05 – a very quiet downtown Houghton MI
Rained after we landed.
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04 – Moved on to Houghton MI, great place, friendly staff, hotel picked us up.
Houghton MI, great town and we think worth visiting again. You can see the weather in the distance. Big copper mining area as early as 1750’s
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03 – We put down in Garaga MI, to wait for weather
Small grass strip 40NM south of the shore of Superior. There was no services or support so we moved on.
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02 – South of Lake Superior en route to Ashland WI.
It looks like we are going to be in for some weather. Flight monitoring in Minni was very helpful with updates.
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01 – we left Sault Ste Marie on Sunday afternoon to head along the south shore of Lake Superior
CYAM airport. Nice facilities but not much support for the small plane pilot and a $40 cab ride from downtown. Cheaper to rent a car. But a short hop to Sanderson field to clear US […]