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 [...]

It’s been a busy week for ‘There and Back’. Liaising with the RAAF and Airservices Australia regarding clearances and landing approvals and even squeezing in a breakfast interview with ABC radio. As the days count down, the interest in the flight seems to be increasing exponentially, with the website recording a massive amount of visits [...]

This is Dillon with his dog, McGee. He typically represents the interest I have had from schoolchildren on opposite sides of the globe regarding the flight around Australia. Yesterday was spent speaking with children at the local public school and those active minds raised a number of pertinent questions about flying light aircraft; many of which related to [...]

It’s been a busy time here at ‘There and Back’. With all of the operational planning in place, it’s been a matter of liaising with our good friends in the media and working on fund-raising to ensure that we do our utmost to raise funds for the RFDS. Check out the final route and dates [...]