Without a doubt the most spectacular plane crash of 2012 was a Boeing 727 intentionally crashed in a remote Mexico desert in April. The crash was the culmination of 4 years of planning by a group of scientists for the Discovery Channel's Curiosity Series and...
From my family to yours [caption id="attachment_22970" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Craig, Justin, Jessie, Judy, Joann, Boyd & Bear[/caption] ...
re·cal·cu·late /rēˈkalkyəˌlÄt/ Verb. To calculate again, especially in order to eliminate errors or to incorporate additional factors or data. Alrighty people, because of comments and emails about the "official" numbers posted regarding what taildraggers the ladies love to fly, I'm back with this update. As always, your comments are...
I love getting updates from our pilots so I couldn't have been happier when I received a nice email with a few pictures from one of our own, Joy Smith, of Alaska. Joy moved to AK from McCall, Idaho the summer of 2010 and is based...
This may well be the happiest story I've ever posted on LadiesLoveTaildraggers and it happens to be about my friend Nancy Warren, 84 years young.  Nancy is a pilot and truly remarkable woman who took her first flying lesson in her 50s. She's a former...
The numbers are in! It's been nearly TWO years since we've done an official count of  taildraggers the ladies fly and own. It's an elusive number to nail down since we're always buying and selling, renting and borrowing. Things are always a changing and I...
Fifth International Lake Memphremagog SKI FLY MEET Mark your calendar for Sunday, February 17, 2013 Canadian and US pilots to meet each other at our common border line on the ice of international Lake Memphremagog, part in Quebec and part in Vermont. Planes should plan to arrive between 11...
Taildragger cockpits vary tremendously in size and panel configuration. Before GPSs I don't remember panel space ever being a problem; the only "space" issue was figuring out how to get your body in and out of some of them. Once buckled in, if you could...
Following up my post "Fuel Starvation Happens", here's a perfect example. Bill Dickey posted this video on Facebook in response to my post. It's a Cessna Caravan dropping jumpers, runs out of fuel and makes a dead stick landing. Amazing to catch this on video....
Fuel starvation. Don't you just hate it when this happens?!! [caption id="attachment_22781" align="aligncenter" width="425"] When you screw up, the last thing you want is a crowd! This Orange County pilot landed on I-15, San Diego, last summer and reported "The fuel must have been less than...
