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← Backcountry Aviation Radio2 sept · 1 h 21 min

Fly Rocky Top with Jeff Smith and Matt Axley...your NEXT Backcountry Destination

Fly Rocky Top with Jeff Smith and Matt Axley...your NEXT Backcountry Destination2 sept1 h 21 min

Jeff Smith and Matt Axley join the show to talk about Fly Rocky Top — a brand-new backcountry airstrip network in East Tennessee, and the flagship project of the Recreational Aviation Foundation's "Expanding the Map" initiative, announced at Oshkosh this past July. The network runs on a basecamp-and-outpost model. Rockwood Municipal Airport is the basecamp: a 5,000-foot paved runway paired with a brand-new 2,400-foot turf strip called Smuggler's Landing, a name with more local history behind ...