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Soviet Helicopter Heroines—They’re 99s! New Orleans 99s Honor Heroes, Desert Storm Phyllis Wells, Another Dynamic 99 AE Memorial Scholarship Judges Eastern New England Chapter, a photo essay Flyword Puzzles .jssszz ACROSS 1 2 3 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 1 Fat Man 4 s 9 5 Fleet trainer 14 ,3 10 German plane maker 17 ,3 14 Medicinal plant 15 Cherish 20 21 22 23 16 No balloons available (NWS) _ ■ 17 Original moonwalker 24 18 Recommended every 25 hours _ ■ 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 19 Weather reporting service _ ■ 20 Airplane's smallest window 33 35 22 Grumman American trainers _ ■_ ■ 24 Primates 36 38 _ 25 Low hanging clouds ■37 ■ 39 40 26 Stewart's partner ■ _ ■ 29 Kitfox control surface 42 43 44 33 Enroute IFR facility _ ■ 46 34 De-ice devices 45 _ 35 Hobb’s meter on a car? ■ 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 36 Before Mike ■ 37 Transponder traces 54 55 56 38 Propagate a | 58 59 60 39 Zulu minus five 40 Pride of Moultrie, GA 61 62 63 41 Saints’ symbol 42 Tick marks around a circle Puzzle #1 44 Weather-wise appendage 45 Horny club DOWN 28 Remote transmitter (GEN) 46 FAA field office 1 Every good turn deserves one 29 Hydro and aero 47 Mountain or river (GEN) 2 Shock absorber Drudgery 30 Just to the right of Quebec 50 Fairbanks favorite 3 4 Cardboard Constellation 31 Contempt 54 The red plague 32 Lon Chaney’s Dame 55 Fruity physicist 5 Clyde Cessna’s original 34 Dress uniform 57 Too occupation 37 Tupolev Tu-26 58 Alice’s Restaurant regular 6 Thoughts LAX time when its UTC 38 Captain Jack Thomas Field 59 Radar echo height information 7 2000 8 Canarsie, NY airdrome 40 Not knot not available (NWS) 9 WWII naval fighters 41 Sick signal symptom 60 INOP 43 Harrier, for one 61 VFR-er in IMC 10 Laughlin AFB river 6 2 ______ a positive note 11 Returned on account of 44 ATC radar facility 63 Indy engine weather (GEN) 46 Bat dung 12 Woodwind 47 Bavarian blimp 13 Type of 51 down 48 Continental prefix 21 Data 49 SAS stop r n 23 Cowboy affirmatives 50 Uttered 25 Glide path 51 Musical symbol Solution 26 Charles Philip George's 52 Successor to the USAAC to puzzle domain 53 Fuselage 27 Ascend 56 Shelton, WA airdrome is found on '■ V. V. V. V. V. y. y. V. y. y. y. y. *. y. y. y. y. y. y. y. y. y. y. y y V. y. y y. y y y y y y y >:. y Test your knowledge of aircraft, aviation terminology and flying Page 14 trivia with FLYWORD PUZZLES - a 40-page book of all-new crossword puzzles created especially for the aviation enthusiast. Special club price only $6.95 (postage paid). Send check to: Flyword Puzzles, P.O. Box 37527, Omaha, NE 68137 YOUR LETTERS From Doris Lockness, Mt. Shasta NINETY-NINE News Chapter,” The 99 Newsletter is now Magazine of the a wonderful magazine and I look International Women Pilots, forward to receiving each publication. The Ninety-Nines Inc. You are doing an excellent job.” July 1991 Vol. 17, No. 6 (Ed. note: Thanks, Doris. It is not so much that I am doing a wonderful job Phyllis Wells, Another Dynamic 9 9 ...............................................................5 as it is that, as we all begin to con­ Soviet Helicopter Pilots— They’re 99s! ........................................................7 nect and to communicate through a Section News ...........................................................................................................9 timely Ninety-Nine News, all of YOU New Orleans 99s Honor Heroes, Desert Storm ......................................24 begin to send material. My thanks to 1992 AE Scholarship Judges......................................................................... 25 those who are sending reports, a photo essay articles, and information that abet the Eastern New England Chapter, ............................................ 26 connection/communication process and make my job (and the News!) COVER: more interesting. Please continue to contribute and let our goal be a more Mary Lou Neale, WASP and 99, informed and educated readership writes of Galina Rastorgueva, who are interested in the advance­ pilot, and her navigator, ment and improvement of aviation Ludmila Polyanskaya. They set and especially women in aviation helicopter records in 1975 and around the globe. While on that note: we welcome them to the Ninety- PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR CHAPTER Nines in 1991. INFORMATION DIRECTLY TO YOUR SECTION REPORTERS. Their names are listed in the mast­ head and their addresses can be 99s In Action—the Santa Maria Chapter, CA. found in the Directory.) Aviation Awarness D ay From Anne Silverman, Marin from the 99s to the County Chapter, “Just thought I’d G ifted and Talented Students at the Museum let you know that the 99s featured on of Flight, Santa Maria page 24 of the Jan/Feb issue are from Airport, CA. MARIN COUNTY CHAPTER, not Charlotte Redford, left, the ‘Bay Area Chapter.’ We’re proud and other 99s teach VFR Chart Reading. of our chapter and our members. Thanks for all your efforts. I really like the way new ratings are listed. It High School GATE (Gifted and Talented makes it easy to spot old and new Education) Students gather after having been introduced to the thrill of flight by Santa friends.” Maria Ninety-Nines. Aviation Awareness Day—a "high profile" event which is praised From Patricia Viall, Oregon Pines by the local school administration and Chapter, “The Oregon Pines and thoroughly enjoyed by the students (and 99s!!) Columbia Cascade Chapter members A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: are planning a wonderful sectional. SECTION NEWS, NEW RATINGS, We’d hate for anybody to miss it! It AWARDS AND HONORS HAVE will be held in Salem, Oregon, from RETURNED. THE AUGUST/ August 20-23, 1992, not in Alaska, as SEPTEMBER ISSUE WILL BE listed in the Events Calendar of the COMBINED. PLEASE WELCOME Ninety-Nine News.” EBSCO GRAPHICS AS OUR NEW PRINTER. Ann Cooper, Editor PRESIDENTS MESSAGE [ l “Help protect our freedom to fly today and preserve that right for our children. If we each ’ % remain idle, what will be our legacy?” by Marie Christensen General Aviation is under attack requiring them to be used. many thousands of workers are again!! It seems we are always in All of us want to clean up our out of jobs because there is no danger of being “legislated” out of environment and keep it clean. demand for the luxury items with the skies. This time it is a seem­ Our organization recently adopted the higher taxes on them. One ingly innocent Clean Air Act that Operation Skywatch as a program Florida Congressman is trying to is the cause of the threat. Amend­ to help keep an environmental get this Congress to repeal the tax ments to that Act have the poten­ watch. We want clean air, but we because of the impact it has had tial of grounding 90% of the want to attain it with a logical, on the boating industry in Florida. “This time it is a seemingly innocent Clean Air Act that is the cause of the threat. Amendments to that Act have the potential of grounding 90% of the General Aviation fleet by banning the use of leaded fuel nationwide. ” General Aviation fleet by banning well-considered plan, not haphaz­ Who is protecting the already the use of leaded fuel nationwide. ard amendments that will require depressed General Aviation The outcome could mean no new additional changes soon after their aircraft industry? How does your piston aircraft manufactured and passage. Congressman view this problem? no rebuilt or overhauled engines Last year the U.S. Congress Have you given him or her your allowed in the skies. hurriedly passed legislation to views? Will you allow us to be While the intent of the Environ­ impose a new 10% luxury tax on legislated out of the skies or will mental Protection Agency amend­ items priced at more than YOU take the time to make your ments to the 1990 Clean Air Act is $100,000 in an effort to pass a Congressman aware of the prob­ admirable, the reality o f the balanced budget. Everyone agreed lems that affect General Aviation? implementation is not well- that “the rich” should have to pay I encourage each of you to point considered. Further studies must dearly for their toys. No one out the positive aspects as well as be conducted to determine the seemed to consider that by punish­ the problems of General Aviation effect of the Congressional pas­ ing the rich for their financial in a letter to your Congressman sage of these amendments. Re­ success they would punish the today. Help protect our freedom to search into alternative fuels and middle-income people even more. fly today and preserve that right their availability must be done. It is the middle-income people that for our children. If we each remain Testing of any alternative fuels build the boats, cars, and airplanes idle, what will be our legacy? must be conducted prior to intro­ that warranted the new tax in the ducing them into our engines and eyes of our Congressmen. Now PHYLLIS WELLS, Another Dynamic Ninety-Nine NINETY-NINE by ALICE G. PALMER News Phyllis Wells, South Magazine o f the Central International Women Pilots Section, Pikes Peak July 1991 Chapter, Vol. 17, No. 6 flies the Groh Twin Astir. Photo by BOARD o f DIRECTO RS Alice Palmer The Ninety-Nines, Inc. President: Marie Christensen Vice President: Pat Forbes When a bright red Citabria in Elbert She married her first husband, Secretary: Lu Hollander County, Colorado, takes to the air Jerry W ells, before finishing Treasurer: Louise White Director: Alexis Ewanchew trailing a training sailplane at the end of nursing school and dove into her Director: Diane Cozzi a 200-foot rope, there’s a good chance career as wife and the mother of Director: Joyce Wells Director: Mary Lou Waite that 99 Phyllis Wells is either flying the four with the same enthusiasm Non-voting Advisor: Barbara Sestito, towplane or occupying the instructor’s she put into her medical career.

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