Barbara Kirmsse First, I must thank Brian Lansburgh for allowing me to post another in his series of excellent articles. This particular article delves into flying the most efficient and safest pattern among your options. As a pilot, you can fly a pattern that's a virtual...
I was so close to Sun 'n Fun but close doesn't cut it. The sad fact is I had to leave my Decathlon at Zephyrhills, Florida just 50 miles from Lakeland. Timing is everything and there's not much time after the daily airshow ends and...
I'm here at last! A scouting trip to KIER has been on my mind for too long but patience paid off - I'm here. (Patience is not my best virtue!) 540 n.m. KMQJ to Natchitoches Regional Airport. This little adventure has been on my mind since...
Article from FAA News "They Told Her She Couldn't, but She Did" The complete article can also be read at https://spark.adobe.com/page/UyvSQr6tbz9tP/   This is too real and too fantastic not to share and many thanks to my friend Nita Sweeney for forwarding. It's about Gloria LaRoche, the third woman to become a...
Thank you to the AAA/APM for the following big news about our very own LLT member, Ann Pellegreno. Ann is well known to LadiesLoveTaildraggers and members of the AAA, as well as being a fixture at the AAA/APM Invitational Fly-In at Blakesburg, Iowa, over Labor Day...
Frequent Flyers of the airline sort may think they've seen America but the fact is, nobody really sees America from aloft until they've experienced it from the cockpit of a low flying, small plane - preferably a taildragger. A jet can certainly get you to...
The list of LadiesLoveTaildraggers' scholarship winners took a giant leap forward in 2019. This year we're awarding an incredible 12 scholarships, amazingly twice as many as last year! As you know, the mission of our organization is to encourage more women to fly taildraggers and...
This year the birds are back by the thousands according to Mike Purpura, the Illinois State Liaison for the Recreational Aviation Foundation. Mike invites our members to this one-of-a-kind event -- the Migratory Bird Fly-in, Saturday, March 16, 2019. That's right - fly your bird...
My previous post “Female Millennial's Blast Lady Pilots into the Future†hit a nerve with both sexes based on the number of calls, texts, emails and Facebook messages I received. I've heard enough women's stories in the last 48 hours to assure everyone that sexual...
That's right. The generation that reached adulthood around the turn of the 21st century, Generation Y, born between 1980 and the end of 1994, are blasting through the glass ceiling of aviation and setting new and long awaited norms for female pilots. Lady tailwheel and trike pilots behold,...
