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Greater Victoria pilot takes to the skies to bring pizza to Burning Man

Brandon Baker was at the desert festival when an opportunity arose to rent a plane
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Brandon Baker, a member of the Victoria Flying Club, got an experience of a lifetime when he got to fly a borrowed plane around Burning Man this summer, with the highlight being a surprise airborne pizza delivery. (Courtesy Brandon Baker)

One of the Victoria Flying Club’s newer pilots was able to cross off an experience very few pilots of any experience level can say they have had – delivering pizza to the Burning Man festival by plane.

Brandon Baker achieved the feat while attending the festival, which ran from Aug. 28 to Sept. 5 this year. He was helping build one of the camps in Black Rock City – a temporary city established in the Nevada desert each year for the festival, becoming home to tens of thousands of people before disappearing without a trace until the next year.

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Justin Samanski-Langille

About the Author: Justin Samanski-Langille

I moved coast-to-coast to discover and share the stories of the West Shore, joining Black Press in 2021 after four years as a reporter in New Brunswick.
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