The list of LadiesLoveTaildraggers' scholarship winners took a giant leap forward in 2019. This year we're awarding an incredible 12 scholarships, amazingly twice as many as last year! As you know, the mission of our organization is to encourage more women to fly taildraggers and...
This year the birds are back by the thousands according to Mike Purpura, the Illinois State Liaison for the Recreational Aviation Foundation. Mike invites our members to this one-of-a-kind event -- the Migratory Bird Fly-in, Saturday, March 16, 2019. That's right - fly your bird...
My previous post “Female Millennial's Blast Lady Pilots into the Future†hit a nerve with both sexes based on the number of calls, texts, emails and Facebook messages I received. I've heard enough women's stories in the last 48 hours to assure everyone that sexual...
That's right. The generation that reached adulthood around the turn of the 21st century, Generation Y, born between 1980 and the end of 1994, are blasting through the glass ceiling of aviation and setting new and long awaited norms for female pilots. Lady tailwheel and trike pilots behold,...
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...
