Missy Martin is based at KDLN, Dillon Airport, Dillon, Montana. This is Missy's LLT 'Pilot Profile' and her love story! So there I was…a dopey, awkward, high-school senior at the Bozeman, Montana airshow in 2001. My dream was to fly and I wanted my senior year book photo in...
Terri Cole is based at TE72, Taylor Field Airport, Bivins, Texas. [caption id="attachment_46021" align="aligncenter" width="240"] Terri & Larry Cole[/caption] I'm not sure if I can make this short and sweet, so why try. Back story - In August 2006 I asked a coworker/friend, in a jokingly manner, if...
Anne Wright is based at KARB, Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [caption id="attachment_46012" align="aligncenter" width="570"] On a tour with the Michigan Stearman Club[/caption] I had been a member of a flying club with some beautiful, well-kept Archers, and enjoyed flying them. Until I met a J3 Cub at...
Lady Taildragger pilot Nic Orchard is based at EGHB, Maypole Airfield, Kent, UK. I had no interest in flying. I hadn't been in any aircraft until work sent me to Germany for a week. Yet, by accompanying my father to the gliding club he'd just joined, I...
Chris Colacci is based at KVAY, South Jersey Regional Airport, Mount Holly, New Jersey. This is Chris' love story. It was Friday June,13 th 2008. I was meeting a flying buddy and his wife at a local restaurant/night club. When I arrived they were in the restaurant having...
Jonathan Apfelbaum is based at KEIK, Erie Municipal Airport, Erie, Colorado. This is Jonathan's Love Story. [caption id="attachment_45974" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Jonathan & Julia Apfelbaum[/caption] How I met Julia is my "favorite story." I'd moved back to Colorado a few months before, was working in the emergency department one evening and...
Lady Taildragger pilot Mary Latimer is based at F05, Wilbarger County Airport, Vernon, Texas. This is Mary's love story. [caption id="attachment_45962" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Lawrence and our student, Kimberly Jackson up front. I’m in back with Kim’s daughter, Sierra!![/caption] It was early spring of 1970. I went with my...
Bill Finney is based at KMIE, Delaware County Regional Airport, Muncie, Indiana. Question: "Are you a lady taildragger pilot?" Answer: "Heck no, I'm a man!" [caption id="attachment_45938" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Bill & Debby Finney[/caption] After Debby and I went on our first date, when she got back to her dorm,...
Lady Taildragger pilot Juliet Lindrooth is based at KDYL, Doylestown Airport, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. [caption id="attachment_45928" align="aligncenter" width="427"] Juliet and Steve Lindrooth, us on our way to Tel Aviv in 2016.[/caption] I was fairly new to my job at American Airlines and so I had not yet officially moved across the country...
Lady Taildragger pilot Dee Ann Ediger is based at OK16, Fairmont Field Airport, Fairmont, Oklahoma. The first date with my husband Ken was on his KZ900 motorcycle, travelling to a rural oil well site on dirt roads, and stopping at the airport to watch airplanes. He wanted...
