If you're wondering what this solid looking homebuilt is, it's a Murphy Moose with a 400 h.p. 9 cylinder radial. It has a max. gross weight of 3500 pounds and a useful load of around 1350 and carries 100 gallons of fuel. I've seen a couple...
A special invitation to all lady taildragger pilots from Sharon & Bill Tinkler...
Thursday was LadiesLoveTaildraggers Day in “Vintage†at AirVenture and what a cool thing it was! During AirVenture, Ray Johnson hosts the daily program "Vintage In Review" in the Vintage Red Barn area and invited us to select 3 women taildragger pilots to display and speak about...
Some serious weather passed through Oshkosh this afternoon, scared more than a few of us and caused some limited damage. I was standing under the wing of my S7 talking to some friends and we could see the sky getting very dark, very fast. You...
It's LadiesLoveTaildraggers day today in Vintage at Oshkosh! I'm heading there next to meet Meredith Tcherniavsky and her Cub, Lisa Haag and her Stearman and Deb Ings and her Pacer. Presentation at 11:00. Should be fun!!...
Holy cow, I love Wisconsin. I found out today this really is COW country when I hopped a ride from Oshkosh for the 1 hour car drive to New Holstein for the Supercub fly-in. [caption id="attachment_20619" align="aligncenter" width="425"] They're Everywhere![/caption] The drive really was beautiful with cow...
[caption id="attachment_20601" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Shona Hirota[/caption] I just keep bumping into more and more lady taildragger pilots! For the guy that told me several years ago "Honey, lady taildragger pilots don't exist", boy do I have news for you!! This is Shona Hirota with her 1995...
[caption id="attachment_20581" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Donuts to die for at the Aces Cafe![/caption] So, if fabulous taildraggers and old friends haven't gotten you to AirVenture 2012 yet, maybe the incredible, hot, homemade donuts fried up every morning will. Trust me, I know a great cake donut when...
I can't wait till tonight to show you pics from today's LLT lunch so here goes from my iphone. 15 lady pilots today along with a few guests of the opposite sex. What a great group of interesting adventurous people! * * * We're doing it again on Friday at: Hilton...
Lady taildragger pilot Elaine Kauh emailed this great story. Hartford is the airport about 40 miles south of Oshkosh where the Cubs gathered for their mass group flyout to OSH on Sunday morning. Cubs To OSH 2012 Vanessa Jump Nelson flew her Cub from Oregon along with...
