Articles about the region 'North America'

Well, we're back home now safe and sound after 71 days of flying all around the world. It will take a while for everything to fully sink in; that we actually flew ourselves completely around the entire world. This is an accomplishment I would have never imagined achieving for myself when I first was learning to fly. I mean, most pilots get a big kick out of flying over to the next...

Flying out from Seattle- yet another thirteen hundred mile leg; this time heading for Oklahoma City. Things were beginning to feel very familiar- too familiar even. JP, exhausted after tending to the needs of five aircraft, crew, and passengers, for the past three months, slept in the back wrapped in a blanket like a cocoon. He'll probably sleep for a week once he gets home- he slept...

We'd wanted to spend a few days in Alaska, take some excursions to the mountains and capture some great landscape photos, or see whales and glaciers, but the weather was just too cold and rainy. A lot of the local folks we visited with said that they haven't seen a real summer up there in three years, 'Alaskans are all for global warming,' one of the guys at the airport was telling...