There and Back dedicated to Aviation, Airmanship and the Craft of Flying - by Owen Zupp & Robert Brus

While the flight ‘There and Back’ has concluded, the journey is just beginning in many ways.

Owen Zupp recently featured in Snap Shot Magazine – Click the image to view the edition.

Owen Zupp flies the Qantas A380 Simulator

The target of $10,000 in funds raised by ‘There and Back’ for the RFDS has been achieved! Thank you to everyone who has contributed. As if ‘There and Back’ hadn’t kicked enough goals, this final milestone rounds of the flight with a wonderful sense of completion. The most recent donation was made by someone preferring [...]

Today is my first full day at home since the around Australia flight concluded at Bundaberg last Sunday. It has been a day of ‘administration’ and sending off those vital cheques to the RFDS. We are well within reach of the $10,000 target and the facility to donate to the RFDS will remain open a [...]

I am now home and settled back into a normal routine. Yet a recurring theme from the media and interested folks on the website seems to be “What comes next?” Firstly, I really want to absorb and reflect upon the magnificent journey that I have undertaken in recent weeks. It’s an opportunity to revisit the [...]

With ‘two sleeps’ to go until departure, sleep is a treasured item. Today was spent at Jabiru’s facility and my first meeting with the ‘There and Back’ Jabiru J230 in its new scheme. The day was spent familiarising myself with the various small details relating to the aircraft that, if overlooked, could lead to inconvenience [...]

Here she is! The first shot of the ‘There and Back’ Jabiru J230D in its special scheme for the upcoming flight around Australia. The team at Jabiru produced the tailored scheme on-site at their Bundaberg facility and the aircraft looks fantastic as the date of departure nears. To be honest, I can’t think of a [...]

With eight days to go, my eye is warily cast over the synoptic charts of the approaching weather systems. The month of May was selected as it has generally friendly weather patterns characterised by big happy high pressure systems loitering in the Great Australian Bite. Meanwhile the dry season is in full swing across the [...]

Another milestone has been surpassed today when donations reached the $2,000 level! Thank you to all those who have contributed. As departure looms on May 5th, this is a great start that can only be built upon further when the Jabiru’s wheels leave the ground at Bundaberg in 12 days time. Thanks so much to [...]