I'm happy to report your self-blogged “My Love Story” posts are arriving daily. February's month of LOVE continues and so do your posts. Please keep posting away. We're lovin' your Aviation Love Stories! Today's is from lady taildragger pilot Tanae Madeley who is based at YADG,...
I think Jeannie Phillips found the secret of passionate flyers...
It's MEN's day on LadiesLoveTailddraggers with several guys telling us what it is they love about flying taildraggers! Tony  Buttacavoli is from Commerce, MI and flies a Douglas DC-3C/C47D 1945. Here's Tony's 8 random things he loves about flying the DC-3/C47D. Tony says "The DC3 and I go back 25 years,...
Nancy Warren is based at KBAK, Columbus Municipal Airport, Columbus, Indiana. [caption id="attachment_16646" align="aligncenter" width="305"] Nancy Warren, DC-3[/caption] Many years ago I was checked out in a Citabria, 7-ECA (part-owner), also flew right seat in DC-3s and Beech 18s, currently fly a Cessna Cardinal 177. - [caption id="attachment_16648" align="aligncenter" width="425"]...
Ginger Davidson lives at 64I, Lee Bottom Airport, Hanover, Indiana. [caption id="attachment_16387" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Just finished my checkout in a Stearman with a 985 engine. I had started working on a project to fly a stearman around the world. The project never materialized and is a great...
Aileen Watkins is based at David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, (KDWH) Houston, Texas. [caption id="attachment_12744" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Aileen Watkins[/caption] I am definitely a taildragger girl and made my living early in my flying career as a taildragger pilot. When it was difficult to find a full-time flying...
Lynda Lee LaBerge is based at (GA75) Meadowlark Airport, Concord, Georgia. [caption id="attachment_9162" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Lynda LaBerge & her Pawnee[/caption] Learned to fly in a Piper Cub and Piper Pacer. Owned a Globe Swift with a 210 Continental. Flew King Air and Diamond Jets for charter company with...
You may want to check out the November 2010 issue of AOPA Pilot Magazine and read the article "Above the Spill". Â Lady taildragger pilot Sheila Mabbitt is mentioned on page 70, and pictured on page 68. Â The article is about GA flying the Gulf oil...
Lorraine Morris is based at Poplar Grove Airport (C77), Poplar Grove, Illinois. I started flying in 1980 and started flying taildraggers in 1987 when I met my husband.  He had a 1950 Cessna 140A that he had learned to fly in, so he taught me to fly...
Sheila Mabbitt has been working in the gulf coast area full-time with the clean up efforts pertaining to the oil spill. She will most likely be demobilized  later this week, however, before heading home she sent us these amazing pictures to post on Ladies Love...
