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 [...]

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 [...]

After a fantastic day off with my family, it was back to the skies today. The little Jabiru had rested the night in the hangar at Mittagong and was soon refuelled and ready to fly on its first short flight of today. A mere hop to the east, the flight was a terrific opportunity to [...]

Today’s the day! It’s dark here, but I can see stars out my window. My fingers are crossed that the weather will play the game so that ‘There and Back’ will make a a scheduled departure at 10am. One last ‘Thank You’ to everyone for their messages of support and donations thus far. Also, to [...]

So after all of the planning, the day of departure finally comes tomorrow. And I can’t wait! Today was spent attending to all manner of details. There was practice at changing a wheel and ensuring that the cowlings held no mysteries about what lay beneath. Then there was the media. The phone started at 7am [...]

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 [...]