Continuing our month long flying adventure across the Lone Star State of Texas, today we met up with another passionate lady taildragger pilot, Andrea McGilvray. Andrea is based at Hondo, Texas, KHDO, a former Airforce base 40 miles west of KSAT, San Antonio. For someone who...
Departing the Gulf Coast yesterday from Mustang Island seemed questionable at best. There was early morning fog in surrounding areas, haze, and hit-and-miss IFR to the north and south. On the positive side, the sky was clear and blue directly overhead. The big question was,...
A Month of Nothin' But Texas! Yesterday, this hot little RV7 found its way to Texas. Five GPSs, a 2-axis auto pilot, 3 glass-panel screens and 2 pilots managed to not-get-lost, to not-violate any restricted airspace all while having a darned good time. It's day three...
I got very hungry in Arkansas today but happy to report, I found the fix. Boyd and I headed towards Texas this morning in our bright & shiny, yellow RV7, for a full month of flying. We broke free of the midwest and are on our...
Thank you to Andy Gelston from PorterfieldPlane.ning.com for surprising me with this excellent contribution to our LadiesLoveTaildraggers' Aviation Book Reviews. Andy writes:"...
Lunch at the airport restaurant, Grimes Field, I74, Urbana, Ohio is a one hour eastbound flight in my Decathlon. It's usually a lovely, non-eventful hop for me but I will say, today's return flight got my serious attention. But neverminded, so much unexpected excitement happened...
