{"id":205,"date":"2005-12-04T17:49:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T21:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blogtest\/2005\/12\/04\/this-weeks-project-fly-a-helicopter"},"modified":"2005-12-04T17:49:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T21:49:24","slug":"this-weeks-project-fly-a-helicopter-from-los-angeles-to-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/this-weeks-project-fly-a-helicopter-from-los-angeles-to-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s project:  Fly a helicopter from Los Angeles to Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a11969'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ve completed the paperwork and registration for my new <A href=\"http:\/\/www.robinsonheli.com\/\">Robinson R22 helicopter<\/A>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m picking up the ship at Silver State Helicopters in Long Beach, California, right near the&nbsp;factory in Torrance, CA, on Tuesday morning.&nbsp; I will fly it around Southern California on Tuesday to make sure that there aren&#8217;t any teething problems (the ship will have been test-flown for about 4 hours by Robinson and then another 1-2 hours by Silver State, the dealer).&nbsp; On Wednesday morning, I plan to depart for Blythe, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Cruces, El Paso, and onward towards northern Georgia then up the East Coast.&nbsp; The route is designed to stay at low altitudes across the Western mountains and to avoid snow storms in the Midwest and East.&nbsp; Helicopters that cost less than $2 million don&#8217;t typically have autopilots, so this will be about 30 hours of hand flying.&nbsp; I expect to have a 125 lb. helicopter flight instructor with me for most of the trip and therefore won&#8217;t have to be on the controls the whole time.&nbsp; We might stop for a day of sightseeing in Tucson, but otherwise are going to try to make it to Boston fairly quickly.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed the paperwork and registration for my new Robinson R22 helicopter.&nbsp; I&#8217;m picking up the ship at Silver State Helicopters in Long Beach, California, right near the&nbsp;factory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This week&#039;s project: Fly a helicopter from Los Angeles to Boston - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/this-weeks-project-fly-a-helicopter-from-los-angeles-to-boston\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This week&#039;s project: Fly a helicopter from Los Angeles to Boston - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve completed the paperwork and registration for my new Robinson R22 helicopter.&nbsp; 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