Thank you to both Ann Pellegreno and to Chris Williamson of the Chasing Earhart Project for making the following available. Ann Pellegreno and the 1937 Lockheed 10 Electra she flew around the world. Photo 1967 Annual Labor Day Fly-in of the Antique Airplane Association. From...
British scholarship winner Fiona Macaskill was the lucky recipient of Catherine Cavagnaro's Spin Training scholarship. Fiona is from Olvestoon, UK and recently completed her training in Swanee, Tennessee. Many thanks to Fiona for writing the following article detailing her flying experience and what spin training with...
Thursday, October 3 - Sunday, October 6, 2019Airport Identifier: KIER Sunrise, the Red River, Natchitoches Ladies, please join me for a long weekend of flying and fun in the small town where the movie Steel Magnolias was filmed. Our 2019 LadiesLoveTaildraggers Fly-in is heading deep into...
Are you a 'Them' or 'Us'? In warmer times. :) It's late January 2019 and like many of you, I'm surviving winter, even tolerating it relatively well considering my Decathlon hasn't been airborne in at least 10 days ...
Jackie Cochran with the Northrop Gamma 2G, circa 1936. Photographed by Toni Frissell) Jackie Cochran is a hero in my mine and I love reading anything I come across about her. Thank you to Ray Johnson for pointing me in this direction and to 'This...
There's one thing I've noticed recently about my flying - I have a difficult time flying a straight line. Oh, it's not that I can't follow the pink line, it's that a straight line bores me. Whether I'm flying just 38 miles like yesterday to...
Apply TODAY for a 2019 Ladies Love Taildraggers Scholarship! In 2019, I hope to award more scholarships than ever before. Thanks to the generosity of individuals who donated to our Scholarship Fund and volunteer CFIs, we will stretch our dollars and help even more women achieve their...
Woohoo, 2019 is here. I admit it - I had a fabulous 2018 and flew more PIC miles in my Decathlon and traded time with Boyd in his RV7 than any single year in the past! I was fortunate enough to attend the Amelia Earhart...
[caption id="attachment_50260" align="alignleft" width="300"] Erika Armstrong[/caption] It took me just a moment to dig into the article a friend emailed me today. One of the tag lines in the article reads "Chicks vs Roosters in the Cockpit" and I'm guessing my male friend guessed anyone hosting...
I'm a big fan of aviation videos and spend far too much time flying by the seat of someone else's pants. In the process, I've come across more than a few that raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Internet searches never cease...
