Barbe Park is based at KMMV, McMinnville Municipal Airport, McMinnville, Oregon. [caption id="attachment_12380" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Endorsement day![/caption] You're kidding, right?  Who WOULDN'T fly a tailwheel??! Those airplanes with the thing under their nose, they just look wrong! I fly a 7KCAB Citabria...
Evelyn Greene is based at Kalaeloa Airport (KJRF) on the island of Oahu. [caption id="attachment_12362" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Evelyn Greene[/caption] Aloha, I own and fly a Stearman PT-17 based out of Kalaeloa Airport on the island of Oahu. Â I learn something new every time I fly this airplane. [caption...
Christina Chapman flew her Scout to Smiley Creek yesterday and sent some beautiful pictures of the area - the area where the Women Wise Airmanship Fly-in will be held. The fly-in starts July 7 so and these pictures are sure to get you excited about...
Way to go ladies!! Last week, three of our own lady taildragger pilots competed in the 2011 women's cross country air race, the Air Race Classic. [caption id="attachment_12297" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Air Race Classic 2011. Teams were assigned numbers according to the time they entered."][/caption] The traditionally 4-day...
[caption id="attachment_12267" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Aeronca C3"][/caption] You can't  live in the world of airplanes, especially antique and vintage taildraggers, and not have "a thing" for one or another. Mine happens to be the Aeronca C2s which began production in 1928 and the C3s in 1931. I...
Hello Judy and all you lovely ladies! :) An update from South Africa after ages! Last weekend, my students, boss, friends and I were at a fly-in at All Days Ex-Military Airfield, (in the middle of the bush!) Limpopo Province, South Africa. [caption id="attachment_12243" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Went...
[caption id="attachment_12235" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The active runway today"][/caption] We wanted to fly up and visit my mother and father in law over Fathers' Day weekend, but the weather looked nasty at our destination, so we stayed home and did a day trip to a little private...
I'm so sorry if you don't live close enough to fly to Lee Bottom Airfield (I64) in the summertime. Its a frequent destination for vintage taildraggers and antique airplanes and a spot not to be missed by taildraggers traversing cross-country. The gate keepers to the airfield are...
Anna Schwisow is based at KPUW, Pullman/Moscow Regional Airport, Moscow, Idaho. [caption id="attachment_12071" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Anna Schwisow (right) & friend Elizabeth (left)[/caption] Hi, my name is Anna. I started flying with a friend in a Taylorcraft when I was 13.  Since, I’ve been flying almost exclusively in taildraggers – I have...
We flew up into Montana Saturday morning, about 100 miles north of us here in Wyoming, to get a birds-eye look at some of the flooding on the Musselshell River. Yikes! [caption id="attachment_12051" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Burlington area"][/caption] The news has been talking about high water, but I...
