Cross-country journey in a custom open-cockpit homebuilt (N149X). 9,722 nm planned, all four corners of the U.S., spread across six flying weeks.
View planned route on SkyVector
| ✓ Segment 1 | KOKB → KBRO | April 14-18, 2026 | 12 legs, ~1,360 nm |
| Segment 2 | KBRO → KCGC (Gulf Coast eastbound) | May 2026 | planned — see below |
| Segments 3-6 | around the rest of the country | summer / fall 2026 | planned |
Five flying days, twelve legs, southbound border run from Oceanside, CA to Brownsville, TX:
Trip totals: ~22.5 hours airborne, three video cameras (left wing, right wing, forward "Eye of God"), live-streamed via Starlink to @PaulBreed on YouTube.
Download the actual GPS track: Segment1_Trip.kml — opens in Google Earth, shows the flown path of all 12 legs with altitude profile and airport markers. ~2 MB.
Brownsville, TX eastbound along the Gulf Coast to the Florida west coast — Galveston, Louisiana bayou, Mississippi/Alabama coast, Destin, Crystal River. Roughly 1,150 nm planned.
Holding for Starship. Departure date is gated on the next SpaceX Starship launch from Boca Chica, so we can do a Starbase overflight on the way out and time the trip around the launch window. Best current guess: mid-to-late May 2026.
View Segment 2 proposed route on SkyVector
Per-leg ride-along videos and a full trip timelapse (~22.5 hr compressed to ~13-18 min) are published in the playlists as they're edited.
Contact: paulsphone.urocket@gmail.com