"Thank you" to Vanessa Jump Nelson for this post about some fun summer flying in a Cub. Her flight was round-trip 7S3 Stark's Twin Oaks Airport to S21 Sunriver Airport, Oregon. I flew my Cub over the Cascades a couple days ago & took my husband...
Dianna Stanger and Victoria Holt take first place in the 2012 Air Race Classic! Airports Nautical Statute HII Lake Havasu City Airport, Lake Havasu City, AZ 0 0 GUP Gallup Municipal Airport, Gallup, NM 279.3 321.41 HRX Hereford Municipal Airport, Hereford, TX 319.3 367.44 GLD Renner Field (Goodland Municipal Airport), Goodland, KS 272.3 313.36 OLU Columbus Municipal Airport, Columbus, NE 234.8 270.20 ATY Watertown Regional Airport, Watertown, SD 208.1 239.48 ASX John F. Kennedy...
Looking for someone qualified to solo your 16 year old son in the family's 1931 Aeronca C3 --- who ya gonna call? Lorraine Morris, of course! [caption id="attachment_20143" align="aligncenter" width="425"] 16 year old Hayden propping his family's C-3, preparing to solo[/caption] Hey Judy, Just wanted to let you...
"My first flight in a "6", Elaine Kauh. [caption id="attachment_20115" align="aligncenter" width="425"] T6 fit in the cockpit[/caption] We have a great fly-in pancake breakfast at Palmyra, Wisconsin (88C), a beautiful grass strip where lots of cool conventional-gear airplanes live. I was invited to ride along to the...
It's hard not to love a taildragger! Stephanie Belser sent in this fun update from her new home in Farmington, Missouri. This morning, my friend Vonne Karraker and I flew down to the Airways Cafe at KDXE for breakfast. Â Her aunt Augusta (nicknamed "Beena") lives...
It's so cool when our members are traveling and make it a point to meet & visit other lady taildragger pilots. Gail Schipper did it and you can too! Just send me an email with the names of the ladies you'd like to contact and...
I'm forever in awe of how many women taildragger pilots live in California. I know it's a big state but the number of women doing my kind of flying are impressive! One of those ladies is Andrea Eldridge from Chino, California who flew her Luscombe...
If you love Aeroncas of all types, hopefully you made it to Middletown, Ohio for last week's biannual convention. I was lucky enough to fly over for a quick visit last Friday, talk to many of the pilots and get a close up look at...
Who's coming to OSH?! I hope to be there all week and would love to meet all you lady taildragger pilots. Mark your calendar for one or both days we'll be meeting for lunch, 11:30 Tuesday, July 24 and 11:30 Friday, July 27. Keeping true...
This is the greatest story! 16 year old student pilot Allison Driver, instructed by her grandfather in his airplane, a Citabria, flies her first solo cross country 99 n.m. to our lady taildraggers fly-in in Savannah, TN. Pretty darn cool! Allison has been flying with...
