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 [...]

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 [...]

On this day of departure, a special thank you must go to the folks of Bundaberg. Everyone has been so helpful and interested; from cabbies to Councillors. Bundaberg was the ideal location to depart givenits historical ties to Bert Hinkler and the home of Jabiru aircraft.On that note, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation is a [...]

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 [...]

Even a fog-bound Sydney Airport couldn’t prevent the first steps on the ‘There and Back’ journey as the trip to Bundaberg kicked off. Centrepoint Tower peeked its head above the low lying mist, while the suburbs of the northern shores were bathed I early morning sunlight. It was impossible not to consider what will have [...]