Childhood dreams - Worldflight

Andreas and Melanie do not just realise their childhood dreams with this Worldflight. They ask people on their way about their childhood dreams and document the whole trip with the objective to motivate others to cross their own frontiers to realise their childhood dream as well.

In the early 1970s Andreas did not miss any episode of "Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt" on the Western German Television (WDR). This German cult TV show based on the bestseller of Boy Lornson. The story is about a little roboter, called Robbi, who built the flying machine invented by a little boy, named Tobbi. The particular of this machine is, that it can fly (Flie...), swim on water (...wa...) and drive like a car (...tüüt). Together they have to find answers for Robbis exam questions during their flight adventure up to the North Pole. Since those days Andreas dreamed of an allround mobility vehicle like the Fliewatüüt. As a grown-up he saw with "Little Nellie" something familiar in James Bond "You Only Live Twice". But finally with the gyrocopter Xenon he has found his real Fliewatüüt. As a child he flew with the Fliewatüüt in his dream. Now he is realising his Worldflight together with his wife, Melanie. Together they will be the first married pilot couple in a gyrocopter on such an adventurous flight.

Melanie grew up in the former GDR. As a child she dreamed of travelling without any frontiers, or even better to be a cosmonaut in the endless space. On October 1989 she and her father crossed as refugees the green border to Prague (CZ) to enter the first refugee trains, which lead to the Western Part of Germany, where her Mom already waited after her last visit without return. Twenty years later Melanie is closer than ever to her childhood dream. She passed as the first woman the sport pilot licence for the gyroplane Xenon. And together with her husband, Andreas, she makes the Worldflight, which puts her a little bit closer to the endless space.

Andreas read "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch in 2007. It is a tradition at some universities in the US to give one last lecture as it would be the last before you die. And so did Randy Pausch. But Randy Pausch knew that he would really die a few months after it as far as his doctor has told him. The title of his last lecture was „Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams“. Melanie and Andreas Stütz were inspired by this speech and now on their way to achieve their childhood dreams. So take your time. Do not be afraid about the duration of this last lecture. You do not need to count the minutes. Be sure the time flies by - just by listening to this special last lecture. In memory of Randy Pausch, who died on July 25th, 2008.