The Truman and Evans Story

This blog commemorates the round-the-world solo flights by Truman and Evans in 1947-8. The two aviators were George W. Truman and Clifford Vassar Evans, both ex-army pilots who took it upon themselves to fly around the world solo in a tandem effort using two Piper Super Cruisers. They named their aircraft the "City of the Angels" (Truman's aircraft) and the "City of Washington" (Evans' aircraft). On August 9th, 1947 they departed Teterboro, New Jersey and flew around the world.

Truman and Evans' story has been reasonably well documented on the web, but I still feel it has not received the attention it deserves. The two pilots flew around the world in aircraft that today would be considered too small to make a journey of such epic proportions. In the 63 years (as of 2010) that have passed since their achievement there have been many others who flew around the world solo, but few used an aircraft as diminutive or as legendary as the Piper Cub. So in many ways this blog will be about not only the aviators and the 22,500 mile journey around the world, but also about their aircraft.

Furthermore, this blog will follow my own journey around the world in the Piper Super Cub, following the same route, and stopping at the same ports as Truman and Evans, but from the comfort of my desktop using a flight simulator. While I recognize that there are other flight simulator enthusiasts like myself who have ventured around the world, I am not aware of anyone else who has commemorated a similar historic flight with such an epic journey.