There are still a few places left
that you can't get to from here.
Places without phones or faxes or even roads.
There are still a few corners of the globe so remote
they remain aloof from
what we call the modern world.
This is the realm of the bush pilot.
Tom Clayton is leaving behind his family
and friends for a two-year adventure around the world.
The 28-year-old Radnor resident checks out
his single engine plane for the last time
before taking a solo flight
from wings Airport in Norristown.
The purpose is to try
and go to seven continents
in different parts of the world and live
and work with bush pilots.
As a bush pilot
Claytor will fly daredevil routes while delivering
vital supplies to remote areas.
So before taking to the skies
Claytor got his hugs and kisses
while cameras recorded all the action.
And there was even a special goodbye.
Then as the crowd looked on
the pilot closed the cockpit door
and took off.
The day he left, he made the local TV news.
If he makes it back, he'll make history.
Tom Claytor hopes to be
the first to fly around the world
Stopping on all seven continents
before returning home
I had this tremendous desire
inside to look at other places
to look in places like
Greenland and the Sahara Desert.
Things that I'd only seen
on the map in high school.
So I think it's a desire
to look at different parts of the world
and to live with people
on other parts of the world
but maybe also it's a little challenge
or test for myself as well.
Claytor is 31 years old.
When he was 12 he set foot in an airplane
for the first time.
It was to be the start of an obsession
When he was just 18
he earned a pilot's license.
By his early 20s
he had begun working
as a bush pilot in Africa.
Today, Claytor owns his own airplane
named "Timmissartok"
after one of Lindbergh's planes.
Outrigged with a special reserve tank
the Cessna 180 Taildragger
can fly about 14 hours without refueling.
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