Jeanne MacPherson sent in these beautiful pics and I'm amazed by the still snow covered mountains in Montana - it's July for pete's sake! OK, maybe she took the pictures a few days ago, but come on - it's big time summer in the mid-west!  Jeanne...
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...
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...
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...
Sweetwater, Texas is home to the National WASP World War II Museum at Avenger Field and host for the May 2011 WASP Homecoming (Women Airforce Service Pilots).  Thanks to Marie Spear for sending these lovely pictures from an awesome event. Marie is based at (KENW) Kenosha Regional...
