I finally got to meet Lisa Martin from Montana at Smiley Creek and can tell you her Super Cub looks just as fine in person as it does in her pictures. Lisa turned out to be a soft spoken, beautiful and very sweet little gal...
[caption id="attachment_12805" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Summer"][/caption] Yes, it's true, Summer Martell will be flying her 1931 Student Prince biplane to the Lady Taildraggers Fly-In in Dayton this August!! From Washington State! Â 3,400 miles round trip!! Open cockpit tandem biplane! Over the Great Divide! Â Across the Plains! To...
I got to zip over to Hagerstown, Indiana in the S7 late this afternoon for the yearly gathering of antique & vintage aircraft. Yep, I know it's strange having a flyin on a Tuesday, but this is the 4th year they met on the Tuesday...
This is an amazing photo documentation sent in by Amal Ajmi. She's based in Fairbanks, Alaska and flew her PA-11 Piper Cub Special along side her friend, Kalin Kellie who was flying her Aeronca Champ around Alaska. [caption id="attachment_12721" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Kalin and her Champ"][/caption] ...
Thanks to Gail Schipper for putting together this beautiful little video of the Woman Wise Airmanship Fly-in at Smiley Creek. Gail included some great aerial shots of many of the back-country Idaho strips and highlights of all the fun. Enjoy!! ...
Hey, news from Tennessee! Who'd have guessed you could put Alaskan Bush Wheels on a 65 hp Taylorcraft in Tennessee! Very cool Shannon & Chuck. Congratulations and happy grass landings! I Like! [caption id="attachment_12668" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Alaskan Airstreak Bushwheels"][/caption] And I notice the chalks in the picture...
If you're heading to Oshkosh this year, let's meet for lunch! Let's plan to meet at the Hilton Garden Inn's rooftop restaurant which is on the northwest corner of the airport in the North 40. The bus will take you right to it. Â Tuesday, July...
This was sent in by our very own, and totally cool, Vanessa Jump Nelson for your viewing & reading pleasure. Vanessa says, "I just have to share!" [caption id="attachment_12606" align="aligncenter" width="338"] Vanessa with her friend Linda M and her beautiful Cub "Tumbleweed".[/caption] Independence in the truest sense of the...
Yeehaa! That's mountain slang for "Flying's a blast in Idaho!!" The symposium is over and Anne Wright and I are back in Boise getting ready to meet up with fellow pilot Deborah Abingdon of Roswell, NM for dinner. Â We've been scrambling to do it all...
[caption id="attachment_12544" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Christina getting ready for our morning flight"][/caption] When Christina Chapman asked me to join her for an early morning canyon flight to the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and land at the Flying B Ranch I couldn't say "yes" fast enough....
