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It is a trip of a lifetime for the thousands of Tartan Army footsoldiers descending on the United States for the World Cup.But one pair have taken no chances of missing out on the party – by flying over themselves.Ayr United chairman David Smith and vice-chairman Fraser MacIntyre embarked on the marathon journey to Boston on Tuesday.The duo is 'country-hopping' they way over Scotland's opening game flying a four-seater, single engine craft which they've dubbed Ayrforceone via a number of gap stops.Having brought the Cirrus SR22T craft over from Turweston, in north Buckinghamshire to Prestwick, Ayrshire, earlier this week the friends then embarked on a four-and-a-half-hour flight to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik covering some 855miles.After an overnight stop and re-fuel on the island nation, they set on a 422-mile leg to Greenland before embarking on the trip's longest leg of 925 miles to Iqaluit, the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. David Smith and Fraser MacIntyre with the plane they are using to make the journey
