PILOT BRIEFING SUBTEXT Two parents, two girls, and a continent Wisconsin family flies together to all 50 states B Y D AV E H I R S C H M A N LONGEST TRIP 7,576.5 nm, 56+ hrs TIM OLSON DIDN'T JUST DAYDREAM about the places he'd fly with his family when he built an RV-10 in their garage at home. He made plans and put them in action in a series of adventures reaching from Alaska to Florida and all the states in between. They even flew together in Hawaii-but they had to rent a GA airplane for that. THE GIRLS, Danielle-now 13-and Colleen, 15, have grown in the 10 years the Olsons have been flying their airplane, and wife Audrey has become a pilot. FASTEST AND SLOWEST GROUNDSPEEDS 235 knots and 110 knots PILOT December 2014 38 | AOPA PILOT January 2015