the crew
Barry (77) and Bob (84) have a combined 105 years pilot experience. They’re good friends and adventurers at heart. The two senior age aviators have teamed-up for World Flight 100, a flying odyssey commemorating the centenary of the first flight round the world in 1924.
barry payne
Barry Payne and his wife Sandra are ‘Kiwis’ who live at Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Flying their trusty single engine Piper Comanche they are an accomplished long distance flyers. During 2019 the duo circumnavigated the world from New Zealand in an epic fifty flights..
bob bates
Robert (Bob) Bates OBE, an Australian national, has lived in Papua New Guinea for over sixty years. He can uniquely claim fifty continuous years flying among the country’s rugged mountainous terrain. Bob has also flown on every Continent except Antartica.