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JOIN US in HALIFAX CONVENTION ’95 July 5-8 Amy Johnson, Pioneer Airwoman
BY MURIEL JOHNSON BOYD
HIS IS AN EFFORT by me to put together the drama months before the famous Wright Brothers flew the first heavier- of the pioneering flight of Amy Johnson, bom 92 years than-air machine in the USA. ago. The 65 years which have gone by since her flight When she was 6-years-old, Louis Bleriot of France became Thave certainly justified the statement she made in one the first man to fly the English Channel. After the first World of her letters to her father that she had “a great belief in the fu War (which bred its own generation of daredevil pilots), the Brit ture of flying.” ish captured aviation limelight with Sir John Alcock and Sir In 1967 (26 years after Am y’s death), her father gave all nec Arthur Whitten Brown when they made their dramatic nonstop essary access to letters and documents to Miss Constance flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Amy was then 16, and it was Babington Smith for her to write a biography of Amy. It is an not until May 1927 that the world saw the first solo flight across excellently detailed coverage of Amy’s life and accomplishments the Atlantic by Lindbergh which took 33.5 grueling hours. Amy from her birth to her demise in 1941. Us had grown up in a world gripped with ing this biography as a source of authen flying fever, and three years later in 1930, tic facts, I have tried to focus mainly on she— Amy Johnson— would be in the the nature of Amy’s struggle to overcome headlines with a solo flight of 19 days obstacles as a woman of her time. from England to Australia. Since World War II, the advances in Because Amy had a perfectly normal air travel are taken so much for granted girlhood embracing the usual pursuits that we are inclined to forget the decade of the time, how Amy came to accom of the twenties when “daring young men plish this is a strange, almost bizarre in their flying machines” advanced the story. She did have a very competitive possibilities of flight to the stage we now spirit and played cricket with such en accept as normal. thusiasm, in fact, that it resulted in a sig They pioneered the air routes in a way nificant change in her personality due that seems beyond possibility from the to an accident in her early teens when a viewpoint we now enjoy. The revelation cricket ball knocked out her front teeth. is that their achievements more often than At the age of 14, such an event is a not came about through the courage, ini devastating blow for any girl’s self-im tiative and skill of solo fliers. age, and it changed Amy from a com In single engine lightweight aircraft petitive extrovert into someone of a such as the DeHavilland Gypsy Moth, more retiring nature, and probably was unequipped with radio, they spanned in the source of much stress in later life credible distances to prove the viability when she was lionized for her exploits. of flight. This would never occur today W h e n f u l l perseverance But hidden within her quiet shy facade because radio would always be available was a strong spirited single-minded even to long-distance adventurers. Any IS APPLIED TO A DESIRABLE character yet to be proved. flier today who would choose to emu GOAL, INCREDIBLE ACCOM Amy’s story shows women of today late their achievements would be kept in how things can be accomplished when touch by radio. PLISHMENTS CAN BE MADE. full perseverance is applied to a desir The accomplishments were not all by able goal. The wider freedom of career men. Some of the greatest achievements were by women who choices today presents much better opportunity but still requires startled the world with their daring and personal desire to prove girls to find their career focus earlier in life so that they can that women are as able as men. Although Amelia Earhart holds recognize the single-minded pursuit needed for success. the honor of being the most famous airwoman on the American Amy’s drive only materialized after she finally abandoned side of the Atlantic, in Britain, the name of Amy Johnson hopes of marriage to a man she had been in love with since she holds that distinction. Her achievements stand supreme to was 19. It was as if all the pent-up desire of her unrequited love this day, and she exemplifies best the spirit and courage of their when finally released erupted into that one resolve. Even the accomplishments. years between her graduation from Sheffield University in 1925 Amy was born in Hull Yorkshire on July 1, 1903, just a few at age 22 and her first interest in flying were always focused
The cover photo is from The 99s contains the research library, memorabilia 99s looking for information about archives in the Resource Center, 99s from pioneer women pilots to current someone in their family. Headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla. astronauts and an oral history collection. Membership in this international These archives contain the story o f the The Resource Center is used often by organization for women pilots gives you 99s and much of the history of women authors, historians, playwrights, a place in its history. > in aviation. The Resource Center also reporters, as well as 99s and relatives of — Loretta Gragg, Executive Director towards her eventual mar was not. riage to the Swiss business It was only her own unwa man Franz. < vering stubbornness which brought her through that win Difficult Years. They were dif ter of learning to fly, persever ficult years as she endeav ing through periods of bad ored to find a career that met weather which prevented fly her competitive spirit. She ing. It delayed her progress on undoubtedly already had an landing practice at the time inner drive not to be satisfied she most needed it and it was with second best. Dissatis not until June 9,1929, that she fied with her first job as a got her chance to fly solo. shorthand typist in Hull and Amy afterwards said she the indefinite hopes which would advise against learning stemmed from her love af to fly in the winter, but in her fair, she decided to leave own case, she never regretted Hull for London at the age Amy Johnson, 26 years old, on her second-hand Gypsy Moth. it because it familiarized her of 24. It happened to be the with bad weather conditions. year Lindbergh made his flight, but flying had not yet entered “Her determination, her pride, her tenacity, her thoroughness Amy’s mind. were the qualities that led to her achievements, not any excel In London her life improved bringing the independence and lence o f flying skill. It is all the more remarkable that she achieved freedom she craved. She enjoyed sharing a flat with a friend from what she did.” ’It was also throughout that spring of 1929 that University and found her secretarial duties with a firm of solici Amy pursued her curiosity about the technical aspects of avia tors more of a challenge. The influence of her Swiss lover had tion. She got no help from the time-pressed instructors here, so sparked ambition to travel abroad and helped her linguistic abil she found her way into the world of the licensed mechanics and ity in the French language, and when their relationship had drifted ground engineers. nowhere after five years, she discovered a new interest as a re Every spare hour was given to learning all she could about sult of a bus ride out to Stag Lane Aerodrome one day. In one of the ground engineering of an airplane. It meant tolerating much her last letters to Franz in 1928, quoted by Constance Babington opposition to a woman’s presence in "the cheerfully blasphe Smith in the biography she wrote of Amy, Amy said: “I’m going to mous men’s world of ‘the shops’.” 4 learn flying! I’m joining the London Aeroplane Club and then I Her persistance and hard work won her a permanent friend can get tuition and always use their aeroplanes.” 1 and supporter in the person of Jack Humphreys, the chief ground It was not as easy as that! She earned only five pounds Ster engineer who became of significant help in her future. ling a week, and normal flying tuition rates were that much per Sometimes she rose at 5 a.m. to put in a couple of hours be hour. Undeterred, she hung around the aerodrome on weekends fore leaving for her job in the city. One day in a chat with and through very persistent inquiry, learned about a government Humphreys and her instructor Captain Baker about the subject scheme which sponsored airmindedness by offering reduced rates of women in aviation, Amy lamented to Baker that anti-feminist of 30 shillings an hour at the London Aeroplane Club, but her prejudice seemed an almost insurmountable obstacle for a name went on a long waiting list which no initiative on her part woman who wanted to become a professional flyer. Baker’s could change. response was that for a woman to be accepted, she would She had to see the summer pass by before her turn came up. have to find some way of “winning her spurs.” Amy asked It is daunting to realize that if she had married the man she so “How?” and with a laugh, Baker replied, “Oh, by flying to desperately desired as a young woman, she would never have Australia, for instance.” 5 gone on to achieve what she did. Only after the affair finally ended that summer of 1928 with his marriage to someone else The idea is planted. The germ of an idea had been born then which did her single-minded drive direct her in the course she was to no one could have guessed at. It was also around this time that follow. Two years later, she was known all over the world as Humphreys made an approach to Am y’s father, specifically to “Johnny, Queen o f the Air.” encourage him to do what he could to support Amy’s wish for a First flying lesson. Her first flying lesson finally arrived on Sep career in aviation so that she could give up her city job and lessen the pressure on her. tember 15. For some aspirants, it would have been the last, be cause her instructor, Captain Matthews, was a young junior in Amy had already taken the necessary tests and obtained her structor already known for his brusque manner— and he did not Pilot’s A License on July 6, 1929, but she needed to put in 100 hours flying to attain her Pilot’s B License which would allow hesitate to say she was no good. Anyone less stubborn in tem her to take passengers for hire, which at this point in time was perament might have had their hopes extinguished by his dis couragement then and there, said Babington Smith2, but it en her goal. Every spare evening, as well as weekends, she would be in sued that Am y’s helmet had not fit well enough for her to hear the air, and she later said it was this solo flying which made her his instructions clearly— which she quickly remedied. Amy was undeterred and fortunate enough to have, for half love flying for its own sake. On the basis of Humphreys’ assessment of Amy’s potential, of her lessons, an exceptional instructor in Captain Valentine her father came through with support so that she could leave her Henry Baker, MC, AFC. He had already established a reputa job in the city. Now her earnestness to become not only a flyer tion for an ability to teach the unteachable, being himself a “natu but the first woman Ground Engineer took precedence. This was ral” at the controls of an aeroplane, whereas, it turned out, Amy all aimed at making a career as a qualified pilot. goal in sight. She passed the Air Ministry examination for the Ground En Finding the right plane. The search for the right airplane was un gineering C License in December 1929, the first woman in the derway with help from her Stag Lane contacts. She had fixed world to do so, except for Lady Heath who owned her own air the date for her flight to Australia as May 5 because any later plane and had obtained an air mechanic certificate in the USA. would mean running into monsoon weather on her planned route. Amy was becoming known among the fliers at Stag Lane The right plane was found only three weeks before her pro and to her delight earned her first money for servicing an air jected flight date. It was a Gypsy Moth, two years old and proved craft there. Then a reporter heard about the “lady engineer” and in long-distance flying, with an expanded fuel tank capacity. The asked for an interview. As a result of his questioning she became cost was 600 pounds Sterling and Amy named it Jason after the news in the January 9 Evening News with a headline “Girl to fly trademark of her father’s firm. alone to Australia.” These last weeks were hectic happy ones with willing advi Campaigning for funds. With this publicity, she began a conscien sors and helpers, particularly from the former owner of her plane. tious campaign of writing many letters asking for funds to sup Captain Hope. He prepared Amy for possible emergencies and port her venture. It was at a time when “She was cramming for the tropical conditions with a list o f spares, tools and an extra her second engineering examination attending a formidable propeller, a helmet and a revolver and helped her fix up her maps course of lectures on navigation and kindred subjects, as well as on rollers. putting in as many flying hours as she could.”6 In her lodging, On the weekend before the flight, her father joined her in her bedroom wall was plastered with maps and charts and every London to help with the numerous final arrangements, and on night she studied textbooks and battered out her letters on an old Sunday afternoon, Amy’s friends all came to bid her well typewriter. and suggested that some of them should give her an aerial Again, her single-minded persistence eventually reaped her a send-off on the trip from Stag Lane to Croydon (her takeoff positive response. It was from Sir Sefton Brackner, the Director point). Five of them took off and, in formation, escorted Jason of Civil Aviation, who offered his influence to recruit Lord down to Croydon. Humphreys then supervised the fueling of Wakefield, the oil magnate, on Amy’s behalf. At the same time, Amy’s aircraft— 80 gallons in three tanks, enough for 13 hours of she heard from her father that he would pay for the purchase of flight and four times the capacity of a normal Moth. a plane up to the value of 800 pounds Sterling. Takeoff at Croydon. The moment arrived: Early morning Croydon, On March 10, 1930, Amy succeeded in passing her Ground May 5, 1930. Undeterred by a weather report of fog over the Engineering Certificate A License which qualified her to be Channel which had grounded commercial flights, Amy said, “Fog come an Associate Member of the Aeronautical Society. But the doesn’t worry me; I don’t want to see the Channel anyway.”7 main benefit to Amy was that she now had the knowledge to “Amy got away splendidly 7.45,” was the cheery message make preflight airframe inspections of aeroplanes as distinct from her father Will Johnson telegraphed to his wife— and so the epic their engines which the “C” License had given her. journey began. A recent regulation had been added for professional pilots which meant she also had to study for a 2nd class Navigator’s Muriel Johnson Boyd, cousin of Amy Johnson, resides in Toronto, License. These details are given to show the extent to which Canada, having emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1948. Amy had to overcome one hurdle after another as she kept her “Part II - The Flight” will appear in the July/August issue.
1 Smith, Constance Babington, Amy Johnson (London, England:Collins. 1967), p.l 19,2 Ibid. p. 127,3 Ibid. p.135,4 Ibid. p. 136,5 Ibid. p. 138, 6 Ibid. p. 163,7 Ibid. p. 187
AMY JOHNSON. 1903-1941 ment. after flying solo, was to woman to fly alone to Australia. Transport Auxiliary, a pool of Amy Johnson was born July qualify as the first British-trained In July 1931, she set an En experienced pilots who were 1, 1903, in Hull Yorkshire and woman ground engineer. For gland to Japan record in a Puss ineligible for RAF service. Her lived there until she went to awhile she was the only woman Moth with Jack Humphreys.In flying duties consisted of ferry Sheffield University in 1923 to G.E. in the world. July 1932, she set a record from ing aircraft from factory airstrips read for a BA. After graduating, Early in 1930, she chose her England to Capetown, solo, in a to RAF bases. she moved on to work as a sec objective: to fly solo to Australia Puss Moth. In May 1936, she set a It was on one of these routine retary to a London solicitor and to beat Bert Hinkler’s record record from England to Capetown, flights on January 5, 1941, that where she also became inter of 16 days. At first, her efforts to solo, in a Percival Gull, a flight to Amy crashed into the Thames ested in flying. Amy began to raise financial support failed, but retrieve her 1932 record. estuary and was drowned, a learn to fly at the London eventually Lord Wakefield agreed With her husband, Jim tragic and early end to the life of Aeroplane Club in the winter of his oil company should help. Mollison, she also flew in a DH Britain’s most famous woman 1928-29 and her hobby soon Amy’s father and Wakefield shared Dragon nonstop from Pendine pilot. became an all-consuming deter the 600 pound purchase price of a Sands, South Wales, to the United Amy is remembered in many mination, not simply to make a used DH Gypsy Moth (G-AAAH) States in 1933. They also flew ways, one of which is the British career in aviation, but to suc and it was named Jason after the nonstop in record time to India in Women Pilots’Association ceed in some project which family business trademark. 1934 in a DH Comet in the En award—an annual Amy Johnson would demonstrate to the world Amy set off alone in a single gland to Australia air race. The Memorial Trust Scholarship to that women could be as compe engine Gypsy Moth from Croydon Mollisons were divorced in 1938. help outstanding women pilots tent as men in a hitherto male on May 5, 1930, and landed in After her commercial flying further their careers. dominated field. Darwin on May 24, an epic flight ended with the outbreak of World Her first important achieve of 11,000 miles. She was the first War II in 1939, Amy joined the Air Photo by Peggy Ewert and John Weyl (nephew of Mathilda) with a mannequin of Mathilde. of mannequin a with Mathilda) of Weyl (nephew John and Wells Center. Joyce Resource to added Collection Moissant Mathilde h Nnt-ie, n te raig i the in reading, then and Ninety-Nines, The minutes of the first years of the formation firstof theof years minutes of letters theandspentof reading fragile copies thosepioneer pilots. T par currently Eagles Young Astronauts, Young inmembers program, Bear the Air ticipate our of Many aviation. about public the have we such, as and, world the in group aviation women’s est was By also. events, these at importance primary of been been larg the to belong we Ninety-Nines, The of members As work. wonderful word the with do to thathave does “What muttering be must you now, be will subject same the that wager to willing be National the and Congress Education, Space and National on Aviation Fun, ’N Sun EAA’s attended aviation. eral pressing most the doubt, a Without IA). (W tion Intercollegiate Flying Association competition. I’d competition. Association Flying Intercollegiate was meeting each f o issue Avia in Women and Aero ), A (NA National the of Association nautic eetings m attended since 99 Bu Bo, borpis fsm of some of biographies Book,” “Blue 1979 B GIFT:That which is given or bestowed; a present; a donation; a talent. a donation; a present; a bestowed; or given is which GIFT:That EORE CENTER RESOURCE In spite of the strong personalities, the com All of us who have learned to fly realize what a what realize fly to learned have who us of All By the time you receive this issue, I will have will I issue, this receive you time the By (it is snowing at 1,500snowing ft.)abouthasbeenis (it California in DAY RAINY COLD. HIS bestowed gifted GNIG IH h icat Owners Aircraft the WITH EGINNING tion in Palm Springs last October, I have I October, last Springs Palm in Conven tion (AOPA) Association Pilots and present with, among other things, the opportunity to educate to opportunity the things, other among with, pn s r copihd y hard by accomplished or us upon e ae eevd wehr it whether received, have we gift?” how to revitalize gen revitalize to how PRESIDENT' COMMENTS S
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standing rules, revising and Board, Council of updating of Board and Head Governors complete quarters operating procedures, Spring Meeting progress of The 99s History Book (keep your bios and pho BY LU HOLLANDER tos coming), ways to expand KLAHOMA CITY International Ways and Means, greeted Board and format of the Membership Di Council of Governors rectory, future conventions, members with blustery cold participation on computer net Photo Photo by Peggy Ewert weather and snow as they gath works such as CompuServe Front row: Section Governors Michelee Cabot, New England; Joy ered for the spring meeting. and/or America Online, and Blackwood East Canada; Jill Hopfenmuller, New-York-New Jersey; Along with budget planning revisiting the idea of affilia Vice Governor Dottie Wood, South Central; Governor Nancy Wright, for the coming fiscal year, a tions with other aviation-re Southeast; and Vice Governors Nancy Jensen, Northwest; and Peggy plan for payment of dues over lated groups. Ewert, Southwest. Middle Row: Secretary A. Lee On, Treasurer a two or three year time frame Considerable focus was Diane Cozzi, Mathilde Moissant figure. President Joyce Wells and was developed. Among future placed on long-range planning Vice President Lois Erickson. Back Row: Past President Lu funding ideas discussed was a efforts and committee chair Hollander, General Counsel Cecile Hatfield and Directors Connie possible dues increase that Cathie Mayr presented a ques Wilds. Carolyn Carpp, Pat Ward and Beverley Sharp. would also increase the amount tionnaire which was included of dues collected for Sections. in the March/April magazine. (Currently, Sections receive $3 The Council of Governors The COG provided input telephone teams and by the end per section member.) appointed Joan Lynum, West during each phase of discus of the meeting, more than Both the International bud Canada Governor, Chair of the sion throughout the meeting. In $ 10,000 had been pledged. get and the Amelia Earhart Grievance Committee. Com addition, Governor Hop A special reception recog Memorial Scholarship budget mittee members include Cathie fenmuller volunteered to begin nized the contribution of the were approved. Treasurer Mayr, North Central; Gayl transferring early-day minutes Mathilde Moissant Collection, Cozzi also reported a new Henze, Mid-Atlantic; Michelee to a computer disk. thanks in great part to Claire fund-based accounting system Cabot, New England; and Jill Special activities included a Walters and other members of has been installed at Headquar Hopfenmuller, New York-New “Phone-A-Thon” directed to the Palms Chapter. ters that will help provide Jersey. COG Spokesperson ward fundraising for the 21st The next meeting of the easier to understand financial Nancy Wright, Southeast, will Century Fund. Chairman Anita Board and Council of Gover reporting for the organization. step down in Halifax and be Lewis, Northwest Section nors will be held prior to the Additional discussions in succeeded by Joy Blackwood, Governor, organized Board 1995 Convention in Halifax. cluded proposed bylaws and East Canada. members and Governors into
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I WANT YOU TO KNOW how the magazine occasionally. helpful our magazine can be. On Thank you for making our my commercial flight home from magazine into an even better the International Board of Direc communication tool, reaching tors meeting in Oklahoma City, a both our own members as well nice flight attendant noticed the as prospective members! —Gay I magazine and directory that I had Henze, Governor, Mid-Atlantic out and asked about The Ninety- Section Nines. She is a commercial pilot and hopes to fly for an airline I LOVED YOUR air marking is someday. sue of The 99 NEWS and so did I was able to show her the ap my Chapter. The cover was most plication in the Nov/Dec issue and attractive and conveyed the the listing of Member Benefits in “spirit” very well. the Jan/Feb issue. She decided to — Brooks Powell join. It is very helpful to have this Northeast Kansas Chapter kind of information available in
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Judges for 1995 Amelia Earhart Career Scholarships announced. MARTA BOHN-MEYER is the F-16XL Lami JOHN J. (JACK) KELLEY i s senior vice presi nar Flow Research Project Manager at NASA’s dent of Human Resources for UPS. He is respon Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. She sible for those activities related to benefits, equal is one of two flight engineers assigned to fly in the employment, safety and training. He has served on triple-sonic SR-71 being used by NASA to obtain the UPS Board of Directors since 1992 and is a speed, high altitude data (See the September/Octo member of the UPS management committee, which ber 1994 issue of the 99s News). is responsible for the day-to-day management of the company. Kelley began his career as a delivery driver in Massachusetts in 1962. PHIL BOYER, president of the 330,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, is a life HANNAH M. McCARTHY is president, chief ad time broadcasting executive and general aviation ministrative officer, executive officer and trustee advocate. Boyer is a 4,000-hour instrument and of Daniel Webster College, in Nashua, N.H. This private, coeducational institution of higher learn multiengine-rated pilot who has been flying more ing offers Bachelor of Science and Associate in than 25 years, 13 of those as an aircraft owner. Many pilots know him through his magazine columns in Science degrees in aviation-related curricula, busi AOPA Pilot. ness, engineering and computer science. More than 1,000 students are currently enrolled in its day and evening divisions.
AE Trustee Nominations AE Memorial Scholarship Fund FIRST DAY COVER I am presenting two nominees for AEMSF Jean Batten of New Zealand on April 29, the date of the Trustees for the upcoming election. is the subject of this year’s FDC. completion of her flight of It commemorates the 60th an 1934-35. BETTY JANE SCHERMERHORN niversary of the first woman’s The cover sells for $20 and round trip solo flight London/ is a tax-deductible donation to Sydney/London. the AE Scholarship Fund. Make The cover carries a New checks to AEMSF and send to Zealand Jean Batten stamp and Barbara Evans, 4307 Quail Run is postmarked in New Zealand Lane, Danville, CA 94506.
ceive this quilt, contact You did it! Courtney, Three Rivers Chapter. In order for a perpetual fund We all did it! to be set up, the contributions CHARLENE FALKENBERG. must total at least $20,000. We Chairman, AEMSF Trustees now have four perpetual funds: The Jane Zieber Kelley Account The Trustees of the Amelia of Aeons, the Gerda Ruhnke Flight Instructor Memorial MARGARET G. (PEGGY) NANCY A. MILLER has been Earhart Memorial Scholarship DOYLE has been a member of the an active Ninety-Nine since earn Fund met in Oklahoma City at Scholarship, The Geraldine Mickelson Memorial Scholar 99s since 1984. She has served the ing her license in 1970. She has International Headquarters organization as Chapter Chairman, been a member of four Chapters March 29 to April 1. We are ship, and now the Alice Ham mond Memorial Scholarship. Membership Chairman, AE Schol- and has held most Chapter offices, happy to be able to make the an As you consider contributing arship Chairman and current including multiple terms as Chair nouncement that we have re to your scholarship fund in the Scholarship Chairman of the Mid- man of both the Memphis and Ala ceived the matching funds from future, check if your employer Atlantic Section. bama Chapters. She was elected the family of Alice Hammond. Due to your generous contri has matching funds for grants Peggy has served on the AE to the Southeast Section Nominat Birthplace Museum Board of ing Committee and is currently butions that totaled $10,000, such as this. If so, we may be able to double our contributions Trustees, is an AE Scholarship re serving her second term as South we are able to set up a per cipient, and participated in the AE east Membership Chairman. petual scholarship in her name next year. which each year will result in For your information, all Scholarship video. Professionally, She served on the Mary Von funds received as contributions Peggy is a CFII. She has flown Mach Scholarship Committee in a scholarhip going to a lucky are divided with half going into Part 135 and currently flies part 91 the Michigan Chapter and is cur eligible Ninety-Nine. our permanent fund to earn in in her capacity as nurse evaluator rently coordinating the Minnie A big thank-you to everyone for an eye-operated computer for Wade Memorial Scholarship for who contributed and/or pur terest and half going toward the chased a part of the quilt that present year’s scholarships. All the disabled. Peggy holds a mas the Alabama Chapter. She has held ters degree in psychiatric nursing. numerous offices in professional Courtney Bargerhuff worked on memorial funds go directly into organizations, as well as serving so diligently. In fact, she re the permanent fund. Each year, on the Board of Directors for Big ceived so many requests that a all interest from the permanent Brothers/Big Sisters and Zonta second quilt had to be started. If fund goes to that year’s scholar International. you wish to have a chance to re ship awards. -$> PILOT PROFILE Lee Wilkerson: Gypsy Moth BY TRISH DRUM, EDITOR. AUNT CUCKOO S GAZETTE
T FIRST GLANCE, Lee Greece, Israel and Turkey. Karen Kahn and Lee Wilkerson, Santa Barbara Chapter. Wilkerson’s willowy 6' 2" frame It was clear that at 15, Lee A and graceful gait conjure up im had the travelin’ soul of a gypsy. With compassion, she revived the ages of haute couture models garbed in “Although engrossed in pre-med courses memory of a blind man singing in a cafe chichi designer creations, gliding down at Cal Poly, I didn’t know what I really in Bali who invited her to sing. Feeling Paris runways. It’s easy to envision this wanted to do,” Lee lamented. But eventu inadequate, she replied, “Oh, I can’t.” doe-eyed beauty among the high fashion ally, armed with a microbiology degree “How dare you say you can’t,” he coun jet set. But actually, Lee is more at home and a med tech license, she took a job. “The tered, “when you can do anything and can talking about flaps, trim tabs and yaw job was a way to my means. It provided go anyplace you want.” dampers than she is about chic in-vogue money for travel.” And travel she did. To After 11 months of gypsying, Lee re apparel. This femme fatale glides down Asia, South America and the South Pacific. turned home briefly. She completed a runways all right, but in the cockpit of a Each time she worked just long enough to cram-course in French, then left for Paris jetliner— and she’s the pilot! get some time off and be able to pay for to study sculpture and more French. But Just 38, Lee recently landed a coveted another ticket to another new adventure. her Parisian venture was interrupted by a pilot position with Southwest Airlines. “My friends accused me of being knee injury which veered her home again. Quite a feat to be among the elite corps of flighty,” she said. (Little did she know that Once mended, she resumed her global women jet pilots, as only four percent of “flighty” would one day have such a dif self-discovery quest. Her sojourns took her the pilots employed by major airlines to ferent meaning.) “This was the searching to Indonesia, Japan and Asia before return day are women. period of my life,” Lee explained. “I was ing to New Zealand to visit friends she Lee attributes her derring-do approach trying to find myself...my niche in life. I had made there. It was there, in New to life to her individualistic, independent knew that being a med tech wasn’t it.” Zealand, where the free-spirited gypsy parents, Julia and Barney Wilkerson. At 25 she decided to join the Peace moth found her answer. “They encouraged us (she and her older Corps. But while getting the necessary “During my previous trip I had met brother Greg) to be ourselves, to follow blood tests at the Santa Barbara Free aerobatics champion, Bruce Roy. I loved our dreams. They never dictated what we Clinic, the director convinced her to put hanging out with Bruce and his pilot bud should do.” Then she aptly recounted, “I her talents to use in her own locale and dies, not only because of their zest for life, remember Dad would sometimes wear offered her a job. She accepted. but because they absolutely loved what coveralls to church. Once, he even wore It wasn’t long, just about one year, be they did for a living: fly. them to a formal New Year’s Eve party.” fore this free-spirited gypsy moth needed “One day, Bruce took me up in an an Her father was self-employed. Her to spread her wings once more. It was this tique biplane called a Gypsy Moth. It was mother kept the books. “We spent a lot of “ticket to ride” that eventually led her to exhilarating! That day, Bruce saw the time doing things together, as a family.” her passion...her niche in life. “Something spark that flying ignited in me and he chal Reflecting fondly on family vacations to was missing in my life. I felt that some lenged me to get a job in aviation. Shortly New England, Canada and Mexico, “I where ’out there’ I’d find an answer. So I thereafter. I had a dream. In it I was put think that was when my love of travel and quit my job, sold most of my possessions ting together a jigsaw puzzle. The very last adventure began,” she mused. (including my car) and bought an around- piece was shaped like an airplane. Eureka! Lee pointed out that she was given a the-world ticket. My brother questioned It was my answer.” lot of responsibility at an early age. “My this quest to which 1 was now committed, Lee wanted to “start somewhere new, parents had a motel which they operated but true to their unwavering support, my with a whole new identity.” She got her during the summer. I was 11 when I was parents said, ‘Great!’ commercial ratings in Arizona, after which put in charge of the front desk. But I was Her around-the-world log began with she became a flight instructor in Santa 5' 8” tall and a very independent 11-year- the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Barbara. There she met Continental Air old. I learned to take charge, to handle Thailand, Burma, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, lines pilot Captain Karen Kahn, who urged things. You can’t be a shrinking violet at Australia and New Zealand. her to pursue a commercial aviation career. any age when you’re tall. You always end Lee revealed, “It was the six months I “She took me under her wing.. .encouraged up being the leader.” spent in India that changed my life. There me to ‘go for it.’ And I did! I’ve finally Lee recalled being “shy, thin, tall and were people living in hovels, in a state of found something bigger than I am—a lanky (taller than all of the boys) in high abject poverty, yet they offered me a meal continual challenge.” Lee is currently in 737 school. I liked school and got good and the light in their eyes. In spite of their training. grades.” But her eyes really lit up when despair, their generosity— the goodness of she talked about her exchange student year the human spirit— shone through. I believe Submitted by Karen Kahn, Santa Barbara in Austria when she was 15. And when, at that there has always been good and bad Chapter. Aunt Cuckoo's Gazette is a bimonthly publication for women of wit and the conclusion of their term abroad, she in the world, it’s an eternal struggle. But wisdom, 805-987-2493. and fellow students toured Germany, Italy, I’m an optimist. I hang on to all of the good things.” PILOT PROFILE
worked into the lead Mary Lamoy: plane program. The lead plane is a P model Baron check Fire Fighter ing out reported fires, communicat BY GENE NORA JESSEN ing with the ground and aircraft as the HE SIXTH CHILD of stereo structor certificates fire air traffic con typical Vermonters— independent, and instrument rat troller, leading the strong, self-sufficient—Mary ing, then instructed tankers and helicop Lamoy has made her way in the world true part time and taught ters over the fire and to her roots. She left her secluded home vo-tech ground directing the air to fight forest fires in Montana, never dis schools. 1988 was a tanker drops. Lead cerning that that’s not what girls did. She banner year— her plane pilots have joined a trail crew digging trenches, liv 13th season in the hairy tales to tell of ing on the land and staying out in the woods, the comple “tourists” who wan woods until the job was done. Her atti tion of her multi- der into the smoky tude and independence were a good fit for engine rating and fire zone (which is the helitack crew and Mary became one she was hired to fly notamed off limits Captain Marc Anderson. Forest Service, and of only two women working for the For for the Forest Ser to all other aircraft) Mary Lamoy in front of DC3 converted to est Service in the woods out of Missoula, vice. She started out while they are fully turbine engines. Montana. as a copilot in the occupied orchestrat A life-changing event came from a Merlin and King Air 200, the infrared air ing the ballet of aircraft dropping fire re chance helicopter lift out of the woods. planes. tardant and jumpers. Mary suddenly knew that she was destined Mary’s been building experience and The 1994 fire season was a conflagra to fly helicopters. She presented herself flight hours ever since. By 1991, Mary had tion never ending until the snow flew. to an FBO in Missoula, announcing that moved over to the left seat as King Air Mary Lamoy, the girl who dug ditches and she was there to learn to fly a helicopter. captain. Then she shifted into the DC3 lived in the woods for 13 seasons, flew When the laughter died down and the facts dropping jumpers and by the next year was lead plane in a P Baron out of McCall, of life were clarified for Mary (read a smoke jumper captain in the Twin Otter. Idaho. She’s accumulated 2,800 hours and money), she settled for the private pilot Along the way, she picked up a single en the respect of the crews on the ground and course in a Cessna 150. gine seaplane rating on her own, then did the elite troops she drops into the fires. Mary continued working seasonally for the multiengine sea in a Twin Beech. She She’s one of eight female lead plane pi the Forest Service fighting fires and still smiles a lot about that. lots flying for the Forest Service in the achieved her commercial and flight in 1993 was a low fire season and Mary United States. And what about the helicopter dream? Visions of flying a helicopter for a liv ing have been tempered somewhat by reality, but acquiring the rating remains high on Mary’s agenda. Mary achieved a Marion Barnick Scholarship in 1992 which gave her six and one-half hours in an R22. She predicts she'll be rated be fore 1995 is finished. With that Vermont heritage of tenac ity, combined with Idaho resolve and Lamoy spirit, the Whirley Girls will doubt less have a new colleague soon. -$•
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BY PHILIP GOLD In certain businesses, especially those that require supervi Reprinted with permission o f the Seattle Times, Feb. 23, 1995. sion of far-flung activities or immediate response to customer erospace is a continuum: an array of technologies and needs, the advantages of corporate aviation have long been ob activities, from space shuttles and stealth bombers to vious. Manufacturers and trade associations are attempting to A puddle jumpers and small working planes. Predictably and persuade other enterprises (regional banking, for example) of properly, high-tech megaprojects attract the most public atten these advantages. But if they succeed, another problem would tion. However, some of the more interesting challenges of the remain. 1990s may lie at the low end of the continuum, in a catchall Who’s going to fly them? At first glance, the question seems ab category known as general aviation. surd. But, in the matter of human beings, the future of general And how (or whether) these challenges are met will say as aviation becomes as much a cultural as a technical or economic much about America as it will about U.S. aerospace. affair. General aviation includes nearly everything aloft that isn’t Throughout this century, America has had a love affair with military, commercial, or purely experimental. Its two largest com flight. Part found expression in the worship o f enduring heroes: ponents are private (individual pilots and planes) and business Lindbergh, Earhart, Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride. But the affair (the corporate fleet). Both components have significant poten was also based upon accessibility. Americans could see them tial for expansion. But both also face serious economic and cul selves in the cockpit. Today, this is no longer true. Although tural obstacles. Still, success could generate several hundred thou most Americans, when asked if they would like to fly answer sand new jobs, a few billion in sales, and—maybe— help give yes, in reality aviation has become the province of two elites: this country something to get a little excited about. the very skilled and the very affluent. The affair seems to be In the 1970s and 1980s, the private-aircraft industry was vir ending at the very moment when new aircraft and new opportu tually destroyed by predatory product liability lawsuits. Piper nities should revive it. Still, revival may be possible, provided went into bankruptcy, Cessna closed its single engine piston line general aviation taps into its largest potential, and potentially entirely. The 1994 General Aviation Revitalization Act finally most enthusiastic, remaining market segment. Women. provided some relief. The typical pilot. The private pilot population is aging and shrink Playing catch-up. But catch-up will be hard. For decades, money ing. The typical pilot has always been a male, thirtysomething that should have gone into research and development went into and older, and with ample discretionary income. Today, millions lawsuits and insurance. Manufacturers grew ever more reluc of women possess the same characteristics. Further, the profes tant to innovate. True, some new technologies, such as GPS (sat sional pilot population is about to undergo a fundamental change. ellite) navigation systems, have been finding their way into cock Since World War II, the vast majority of business and commer pits. But airframes, propulsion systems and avionics remain, in cial pilots has come out of the military; few women could com many models, much as they were 20 years ago. pete with guys who’d gotten several million dollars training and However, it is now becoming possible to build an entirely flight time at government expense. But the military-to-civilian new generation of small private aircraft by adapting technolo pipeline is starting to slacken. Women coming through the civil gies and materials originally intended for military and commer ian flight schools and aviation colleges may well make up the cial aviation, especially “fly-by-wire” computer systems. A num- difference. ber of experimental and kit compa- Sociological studies suggest that the entry of women into any Revival may be possible, n j e s are involved in such work; so is field reaches a kind o f “critical mass” at about 20 percent. After NASA. But the creation of new, af- provided general avia- that, the field begins to change, often in the direction of greater tion taps into its largest fordable, user-friendly, genuinely openness and expansion. The percentage of women pilots is cur _ practical “advanced personal trans- Potential, and poten- £ortatjon systems„ ^ remajn the rently far lower (perhaps about five percent) and rising only slowly. But women are advancing to higher certification levels. tially most enthusiastic, task of the manufacturers. Careers impossible 10 years ago are now becoming, if not com Just one problem: w ho’s going to remaining market seg- monplace, certainly visible and acceptable. ment Women buy these miracle machines? Until a Can women, as private pilot/owners and professional pilots, definite potential market can be save general aviation? Economically, probably. And also, prob proven, manufacturers still reeling from a quarter century of ably, in spirit. Anyone w ho’s been around these ladies can’t help nonstop lawsuits will be understandably reluctant to invest but be impressed by their joy at the newness and adventure of heavily, or risk more legal predation. what they’re doing. As an industry, business aviation is in far better shape. The Impressed and, perhaps, also infected. new corporate jets are technologically advanced and capable of transoceanic flight at, in some cases, higher-than-commercial Philip Gold is director o f the Aerospace 2010 Project at the Discovery speeds. The market is good. Still, business aviation suffers from Institute in Seattle. an image problem: a widespread and stubborn perception of cor porate planes as executive toys, not productive assets or parts of Submitted by Penelope Amabile, Greater New York Chapter, who the national transportation system. The abstract advantages of received it from Phyllis Sproul, Western Washington Chapter. How to contact your U.S. Senators and Congress THE NINETY-NINES INC. men about legislation in your area of interest Member Benefits, Services & Resources Step 1 - Call the bill Status Office Take notes. 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Box 1845, Orleans, MA 02653-1845 J Home: 508-255-0357 ■ HE 1995 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of Women in Aviation drew over 1,000 women from 50 states and Marilyn Smith, Advisory Co-Chair a T seven foreign countries to the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Saint 424 Medici Court, Punta Gorda, FL 33950 ■ Louis, March 16-18. Many of them— participants, speakers and Home: 813-637-0355 — Fax: 813-637-8577 ■ exhibitors— were from the ranks of The Ninety-Nines. The 1995 conference theme, “Each One - Reach One,” pro moted development of communication and outreach programs COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES . to increase these numbers still further. The continuing growth Networking Resource Directory and success of this annual event was recognized by a number of Aviation Career Services ■ prominent industry sponsors and speakers who also acknowl edged that women are the largest untapped market segment for International Relations ■ aviation. Benefit Programs Communication and outreach. 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Membership Records ■ Jim Coyne, president of the National Air Transportation As Renewal, Reinstatement, Transfer sociation (NATA), was encouraged by a national poll in which Requirements for Membership ■ 19 percent of women answered “Yes” when asked, “Do you have New Member Processing the dream of becoming a pilot?” Flying, he observed, has progressed through four generations. Research Assistance ■ First, it was a new science; then it became a tool for discovery; the third generation produced a war machine; and the fourth a NINETY-NINES HEADQUARTERS I practical, everyday activity for everyone. Women and men in Box 965, 7100 Terminal Drive the fifth generation, with more disposable income and leisure Oklahoma City, OK 73159 ■ time, are flying more, owning more airplanes, and carrying the Phone: 405-685-7969 — Fax: 405-685-7985 ■ flame into space. Loretta Gragg, Executive Director ■ Sponsors and Speakers. Northwest Airlines, sponsor o f the open Cindy Rusher, Administrative Assistant ■ ing reception, proudly introduced five women executives to the conference. Other major sponsors recognized during the two- Ninety-Nines Headquarters ■ day event and represented by women from their management has a toll-free “800” number ranks included the Federal Aviation Administration, Flying maga available exclusively to women pilots B zine, Jeppesen and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. who want to know more about how to join The 99s. ■ Linda Daschle, deputy administrator of the FAA, regretted The number is 1-800-994-1929. that “Still,women are on the plane but not often on the flight deck.” She promised during her term of office to "Open the door a little wider for the next generation of women.” Toward this Revised 4-15-95 ■ goal, Daschle recognized a team of FAA staff striving to make the language of FAA publications gender-neutral. As part of this effort the AIM will be renamed the Aeronautical Information Manual. John W. Olcott, president of the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA), began by observing, “This conference is alive with enthusiasm and confidence. The energy level is con n>, tagious.” He went on to urge opposition to the proposed take ■o over of air traffic control functions by a U.S. Air Traffic Service ■gCD > Corporation. Such a move, Olcott believes, will compromise the o Q. world’s safest and most efficient air transportation system. Us o o ing the U.S. Postal Service as a model, he suggested labor costs s i will rise and efficiency decline. The NBAA believes reform of O- The Ninety-Nines' booth was among many active exciting displays in the FAA is essential. the Exhibit Hall. Wally Funk, Long Beach Chapter, presents a 99s pin to Program featured many 99s. In the ongoing interest o f safety, the new member, Vicki Knight of Arlington, Texas, while Alexis Koehler, opening reception was followed by an FAA Wings Program Florida Spaceport Chapter, looks on. Safety Seminar. Guest Speaker 99 Wally Funk promoted a zero tolerance attitude to unsafe practices and a captain’s briefing for pilot and administrative careers to serve the needs of a large before each flight. Drawing on her long experience as an NTSB contingent of young and exuberant students. investigator, she illustrated with graphic slides the devastating Closing ceremonies. Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, USAF, and a 99, the effects of flight into box canyons, taking a look in less than mini first woman space shuttle pilot, received a standing ovation at mum conditions, and trying to fly with insufficient or con the closing banquet. She described her February 1995 flight at taminated fuel. the controls of Discovery and the rendez Attendees could pick from a smorgasbord of topics in con vous with the Russian Mir space station. Only eight percent? current sessions. Panels discussed career opportunities for women Five women whose accomplishments in non-traditional maintenance roles, as airline pilots and in the Could it be that of span the history of flight were inducted nearly 700.000 pilots in management and executive ranks of the FAA and major manufac into the Women In Aviation Pioneer Hall the U.S., women comprise turing companies. of Fame. In 1921, Bessie Coleman, a rep only eight percent of li Numerous 99s presented papers: Dr. Jacque Boyd reviewed resentative of the barnstorming era, was censed pilots and two per maternity and family leave policies for professional women pi the first African American woman to re cent of student pilots? lots: Becky Lutte, Margaret Klemm, Maryann Turney, Hope ceive her pilot’s license. Her achieve Throughout the confer Thomberg and Lauren Nicholson addressed various aspects of ence, speakers showed a ments are also commemorated in a new aviation education programs; Betty Strohfus talked about her concerted effort to in Black Heritage U.S. postage stamp un experience as a WASP and Sheri Coin Marshall revealed how crease all pilot starts, men veiled at the conference. she overcame a disability to become a flight instructor; Shirley tor more students and Nadine Liscomb Jeppesen established Render and Chanda Budhabatti presented information on women reach out to enlighten an innovative flight chart business with youngsters. pilots in Canada and India; Cynthia Brown spoke on aviation her husband, Capt. Jeppesen, in 1936. -—Doris Abbale insurance and Linda Hamer on aerobatics and the IAC; Marga Ninety-Nine, Jean Ross Howard, the Long Island Chapter ret Rappaport taught improved pilot performance through vi 13th woman in the world to receive a sualization; Lesley Stewart introduced “Women in Aviation helicopter rating (1954), went on to found the Whirly Girls, Inc. Online;” and Carolyn Kloth described the publications and ser Ninety-Nine, Wally Funk, one of 25 women who underwent vices of the National Weather Service. preliminary astronaut training in the ’60s, became the first fe Exhibitors. About 25 percent of the 53 exhibitors were from uni male FAA inspector (1971) and an air safety investigator with versities and flight schools around the country offering training the NTSB. PLACE YOUR ORDER TO Deadline for filing an DAY for this beautiful 100 per application to com cent cotton throw complete pete in the World with many symbols relating to Precision Flying The 99s. Navy/Natural, $59.95, Championships in Ft. includes postage and handling. Worth, Texas, is July Send your check to 99s International 1,1995. Headquarters, Box 965, 7100 Terminal For filing or volunteering, Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73159, or fax write Jody McCarreU, Rt. your credit card order to 405-685-7985. I , Box 487B, DeQueen, Please include correct name card is listed Ark., or Fax 501-642- under, card number and expiration date. 4829. to be done to The 99s Build SUN ’N FUN ing; merchandise to be or Spring Celebration of Flight dered by Nancy Wright; vol BY BARBARA SIERCHIO unteers to be contacted and SUN 'N FUN COORDINATOR the building to be set up for the business of selling The UN ’N FUN 1995 in Lakeland, Fla., 99s. began long before opening day, Nancy Wright and I April 9. There were many planning started setting up and inside Smeetings to attend; repairs and cleaningcleaning on Friday. We were delighted to have our International Officers, President Joyce Wells, Vice President Lois Erickson and Sec Bertha Podwys, Florida Suncoast Chapter, at 99s Exhibit. retary Lee Orr as Notice the large throw hanging in the background. See how well as our South to order on page 17. east Section Governor Nancy names were referred to the appropriate Wright, in attendance. They all Chapters or Sections. worked very hard, helping with We participated in the annual Volun the daily housekeeping chores teer Parade early Thursday morning. This in addition to answering ques is to honor the volunteer workers at Sun tions about The 99s. Nancy ar ’n Fun. The Air Traffic Controllers are the ranged housing for our visiting noisiest bunch participating. Joyce Wells dignitaries. rode on the golf cart with Pat Quinn, one There were many volunteers of the founders o f Sun ’n Fun; and Nancy from Florida Suncoast and other and 1 hitched a ride with the “Flomebuilt” Joyce Wells and Pat Quinn in the Volunteer Workers' Chapters as well. Florida cart. We went through the campground parade at Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Fla. Gulfstream and Florida with whistles and sirens and blinking Suncoast Chapters held their lights. This was the largest and best pa meetings at The 99s Building. rade ever! Joyce, Lois and Nancy were in We had 150 guests and 265 terviewed on the radio. Joyce and Lois Ninety-Nines sign our guest each received a VIP tour of the Sun ’N book, representing many states, Fun grounds. The weather was beautiful several provinces of Canada and and balmy most of the week. Brazil, Germany, Spain, Saudi Now it’s time to start all over again and Arabia, Finland, Korea, Thai plan for next year: April 14-20, 1996. land, France and England. Mark your calendars! We signed up 13 new mem Our grateful thanks to the many vol bers and handed out information unteers and for donated items. This build and applications to 21. There ing and its operation are made possible were 17 Sixty-Sixes, two trans strictly through donations. SE Section Governor Nancy Wright and Florida Suncoast fers and one reinstatement. All Chapter Chairman Judy Lester at 99s' meeting. THE ANNUAL SUN ’N FUN radio serves as both a global posi wanting to see the KLX-100 work. Hays, Kans., unveiled its S- FLY-IN was apparently a gold tioning system (GPS) receiver for Many also visited Bendix/King 12XL Airaile kitplane at the mine for some of the Kansas navigating and as a 760-channel dealers at the show to order one show—a two-seat airplane kit companies that displayed their communications radio—simulta of the nifty little radios. By the end priced at about $10,700. That in wares to the more than 600,000 neously, if you wish. The walkie- of the show, the company had ad cludes everything, including the people who attended this year’s taikie-size device also sports a vance orders for more than 2,000, engine and propeller. event.The top product, accord slick moving map display and a over $2 million in business. Cessna Aircraft Co. gathered ing to a report by Dave Higdon unique emergency locator that can The second top product, ac a bunch of prospective custom of The Wichita Eagle, was the automatically transmit a voice cording to Higdon, came from ers for their CitationJet. world’s first handheld, satellite message describing the plane, its Garmin Industries, also of Olathe, Raytheon Aircraft Co. also at navigation receiver/two-way ra registration number and accurate for what has to be the world’s tracted its share of prospective dio which came from position data from the GPS re smallest GPS receiver with a mov customers for the two Bonanza AlliedSignal General Aviation ceiver. The company’s display at ing map—about the size of a TV models on display—the Baron Avionics in Olathe, Kans. The the show was mobbed by pilots remote control. Rans Inc. from and King Air C90SE. CAREERS your “cockpit” more realistic, you can tape the diagram of the Learning to adapt to panel layout onto the wall above your desk and make your “simu lated flight session” even more realistic. life at an airline You’ll be busier than you ever expected. Not enough time in BY KAREN KAHN a day to sleep, eat, study and attend your scheduled training ses sions. Your assignments may range from early one morning (show ccasionally, w e encounter pilots who have up at 0500) to late the next evening (fly the 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. slot). recently entered the world of commercial flying and real There may be little or no consideration for how your body is Oize that they are totally unprepared for the regimentation taking all these odd hours. You will have to schedule yourself to and control imposed upon them by their company. assure you are getting enough sleep and have adequate nourish Their expectations seem to vary 180 degrees from reality. ment to be able to think clearly during your training sessions. When they are asked. “What did you expect?” the answer is Once you’ve completed training (sorry, no graduation cer usually, “Gee— a little freedom and control over my life.” emonies or wings pinnings), it’s hurry up and wait. As a new You must keep in mind as you move into any commercial line pilot, you’ll be given some Initial Operating Experience operation that the key words will be safety and sched (IOE), probably some 15-25 hours flying with an uling. Your vision of each one can vary markedly experienced captain. Then comes the shock of get from that o f your superiors. Your job is to learn their ting tossed into the Reserve Pool where you’ll be back interpretation and blend it into your workday. to waiting— waiting for the phone to ring— and when Let’s start with training. Remember, you’re now it does, it’s then hurry, hurry to get to the airport to being paid to learn. You are expected to produce re take a flight that needed to leave yesterday. sults by scheduling yourself to cram the maximum Your days off may be your own, but keep your amount of technical information into your head in plans tentative as too often your three-day trip may the minimum amount o f time. You are expected to turn into a four-day, spilling over, for instance, to the review material before it’s presented in class, take Tuesday you had planned to go somewhere and do good notes and absorb voluminous amounts of data. something— and it must be canceled. Ground school will seem like a huge overload Depending on how fast your airline is growing, until you proceed on to the cockpit procedures trainer Key words or other pilots are leaving, you’ll be “on reserve” or (CPT) and the simulator. Then you’ll wish you were will be safety “on call” for two months to a year or more. You can back in ground school where expectations were black and scheduling request certain days off, but don’t be surprised when and white: study the material, take a test on it, and ______they change your schedule or re-route your flight— move on. Up to this point, you’re focused on input. and there go your plans for some R&R. Once your systems knowledge is theoretically complete, The bottom line is flexibility. Learn to take changes in stride. you’re off to the cockpit (either a paper mockup, a non moving Remember that most of our business is sitting around waiting simulator, or maybe even the real airplane) for a chance to apply for something to happen— either the phone to ring, the aircraft your newly acquired learning. to arrive, the VOR checkpoint to pass, or your seniority to im Each of those systems you studied in ground school now takes prove so you can move up to a real schedule of flying for each on a new frame of reference as you begin your pre-start check month. list, testing and checking all the items you studied so hard. You’ll Actually, you’ve probably experienced all of these sensations learn a “flow” or the organized manner in which you can pre on your road to the top. We’ve all done our share o f waiting. My flight the cockpit. There’s one for each phase of flight: preflight best advice is to fill your empty hours with something produc or “receiving,” before start, after start, taxi, before takeoff, climb, tive and beneficial. I’ve found it’s a great time to learn a new cruise, descent, approach, landing, after landing, parking and skill, brush up on a rusty one, start a sideline business, or study termination. Learning the flow for each phase of flight allows for your next proficiency check. you to complete the necessary items first— and then return with Whatever your choice, enjoy your “free” time. You’ll never the checklist to double-check each item. have enough of it! As you move on to the simulator portion of your training, your scheduling will become more and more critical. You are If you have questions you would like answered in this column, expected to be well prepared for each session, studying the up send them to Karen Kahn. 933 Cheltenham Road. Santa Barbara, CA 93105. coming maneuvers and doing a lot o f “armchair flying.” To make N O T A M N O T A M SCS needs HELP! Photos wanted The fall SCS meeting will be held in The Powder Puff Derby Winners Wing Wall is being moved from Riverside Airport to Grand Junction, Colo., Sept. 28 through McCarren Airport Aviation Museum at Las Vegas, Nev. The Inland California Chapter Oct. 1. Phyllis Kramer, General Chairman, would like to hang a picture of each winner with their wings. needs your help. She says this is a fun way We have been unable to locate a picture of Carolyn West-1947, Frances Nolde-1948, to meet fellow pilots from the Mile High Sue Kindred-1949 and Boots Seymour-1950. Chapter, as well as the surrounding states. If anyone knows of a picture or has information on their family or history that would Inexpensive lodging can be arranged. If help us, please contact me at 702-394-4130, P.O. Box 1551, Overton. NV. 89040. Several you can volunteer your services, call people are looking for a picture of Gini Richardson and Judy Wagner. If they are not lo Phyllis at 970-835-8102. cated, we may need their photos also. —Mardell Haskins. Inland California Chapter NEWS FROM SECTIONS AND CHAPTERS 5th Annual Lasagna Feed at Hangar 134 Livermore Airport, CA. (L-R> Greater Kansas City Barbara Evans, Kay Alyson, Barbara Blissert, Vicki Miller, Sylvette The Chapter had a unique oppor companied by 10 other enthusias Phillips, Carmen Mullenhoff, Lynn Jorgensen and Kim Sloan. tunity to publicize our very active tic Ninety-Nines. Although it was Chapter when we were invited to a cold, brisk day, a warm camara Livermore Valley members through their paces en enter a float in the Brookside com derie was enjoyed as we answered We celebrated our fifth anniversary abling them to become night cur munity St. Patrick’s Day Parade. the most often asked question by in April. Our small Chapter has left rent on March 8 at Martin Avia Parade Chairmen, Kimberlie parade watchers: What is the 99s? its mark at Livermore, Calif., air tion at John Wayne Airport. A Sloan and Beth Hardison, bor The experience was invaluable for port. We have painted and re great turnout was there, including rowed a replica airplane, had a our busy group of women and the painted the compass rose; estab Lt. Col. (Ret.) Pat Pateman, former painting party and decorated it publicity reached a lot of people lished an Annual Lasagna Feed WASP, who brought photos of the with St. Pat colors and 99 N num who had never heard of The fundraiser for the AE Scholarship Discovery night launch piloted by ber. Donna Burrows, assisted by Ninety-Nines.—Helen Hamilton Fund; and made and donated a 99 Lt. Col. Eileen Collins. What a husband Jerry, provided the gaily “Welcome to Livermore” sign treat it was to hear about the decorated trailer on which to trans Pikes Peak which is now mounted on the ter launching firsthand! port the plane. The plane was pi The Pikes Peak Chapter has a minal building, facing the runways. Forty Orange County mem loted by Beth’s 6-year-old daugh Recurrency Scholarship Program Members have made presenta bers and friends participated in a ter Erin in full pilot gear, includ available for Colorado women pi tions to school groups and the Girl highly successful fundraiser for ing helmet, goggles and scarf, ac lots in the amount of $ 1,000. Scouts to promote aviation to fu our Chapter by attending the tap ture pilots. Weather permitting, we ing of the Jay Leno Show in have had fly-ins with fun activi Burbank, Calif. We all took much ties such as rollerblading and pride when we were introduced as North Jersey kayaking in Monterey; hiking to “Members of the Women’s Pilots’ The Chapter sponsored a successful Student Pilot Forum in March “ice cream” at Columbia; camp Association called The Ninety- chaired by Chapter Secretary Lynda Scully in the Lincoln Park ing at Pismo Beach; or just flying Nines.”—Mary L. Van Velzer (NJ) Aviation hangar. About 100 students listened to representa out to lunch at any of a wide vari tives speak on nine different topics regarding aviation. —Aileen ety of airports.—Barbara Blissert Yavapai Trotter We may be small, but we make up Shreveport for our lack of size (8 members) It is a well known fact that pilots by our hard work and determina are more likely to get lost navigat tion. In March, the Prescott Pub ing on the ground than in the air. lic Library invited us to celebrate Shreveport Chapter has taken Women's History Month by put steps to prevent this from happen ting up a display on Prescott ing. Since our monthly meetings Women in Aviation. They made are held in the evening at each available to us a large glass dis other’s homes which can cover play case which we managed to fill many miles, we could conceivably to overflowing with aviation re go astray. Martha Christy has lated memorabilia. The display come to our rescue. She designed was so well received that at the end individual charts for each home of the month, Embry-Riddle Aero which give specific highway and nautical University invited us to street instructions, plus a phone move it to the campus library. number, all bound up in a book the In April, Chairman Joyce Panelists at North Jersey Chapter’s Student Pilot Forum were exact size of IFR Approach Plates. Hilchie was instrumental in coor (I. to r.) Charlotte Happle, control tower supervisor; Marci She presented one to each member! dinating the efforts of our Chap LaShells, aviation insurance; Angela Kovacs, ground school —Helen Hewitt ter in sponsoring a very success instructor; Dr. Geraldine Nelson, medical examiner; Susan ful two-day FAA Wings Safety Ward, FSDO assistant manager; Laura Knipmeyer, new private Orange County Seminar with co-sponsors pilot; Margaret Lacy, FSS weather briefer; Clare Gesualdo, Two of our CFls, Linda Eldridge Scottsdale FSDO, the Prescott CFII; and Tim McSwain, designated examiner. and Pam Hengsteler, along with control tower and flight service Orange County Flight Center’s station, Embry-Riddle, Northaire, CFI, Neil Lundt, put our Chapter Magnum Aero, Arizona Flight CHAPTER NEWS School, Custom Pilot Service, N O T A M Mile-Hi Avionics and Nancy’s Kansas An updated copy of the FAA Skyway Restaurant. We registered Janet Yoder and Standards for Airport Marking over 15 pilots. After a full day of Karen Tucker (AC 150/5340-1G) which seminars and other activities, we “flew ” Janet’s shows the current standards for ended with an enjoyable happy Lincoln from all runway and taxiway mark hour and lasagna dinner. Wichita, Kans. to Wichita Falls, ings can be ordered free from DOT. M-443.2. General Ser Virginia Texas, on Valen tines’ Day to ac vices Section, Washington, DC In observance of March as 20590. An order form is in Women's History Month, mem cept an invita tion from the cluded in the Mid-Atlantic bers interpreted aviation history Section Airmarking Manual. for a group of children March 11 Wichita Falls Chapter to talk at Virginia Aviation Museum. Fol lowing a reading from the book about their ex periences in fly CORRECTION: Ruth Law Thrills the Nation, (L. to R) Front: Pat Ehy, Dehhie O'Neil, Dawn ing the Air Race The photo in the upper right Maryrose Leder dressed in cos Bagnetto; Rear: Sue Stilley, Betty Nicks, Janet tume as AE. Other members dis Classic. hand comer on page 17 of the Yoder, Karen Tucker, Carolyn Sanders and tributed several children’s projects Janet Yoder March/April issue should have Betty Kidd. featuring aviation and some Future met Pat Eby of read: Airmarking in progress at Pilot’s Wings donated by AOPA. the Wichita Falls Millville, N.J., with Garden Chapter at Oshkosh last summer who is willing to listen, and this Members assisting were State Chapter joined by the when their beautiful show planes was their chance to have a captive Genevieve Krimm Orange, Vir Delaware, Keystone and East audience. The enthusiasm with ginia Riley and Betty Vinson. Af were parked next to each other. ern Pennsylvania Chapters. At that time, Pat extended the in which the Wichita Falls members ter the event, members were —Received from Ellen vitation to visit the Wichita Falls greeted Janet and Karen was worth treated to a special showing of the Nobles-Harris, International Chapter. Janet has competed 14 the long drive. Their hospitality film Come On, Geese, made by Airmarking Chairman was wonderful.. .and maybe some William Lishman showing him times in the Air Race Classic and Karen four times. Both love to will decide to race in the future. training the geese to fly with his talk about air racing to anyone —Karen Tucker ultralight.—Betty Vinson ACHIEVERS PATSY BUCHWALD, reporter LUCILE BLEDSOE. Colorado FIRST LT. SARAH M. DEAL for the Pikes Peak 99s, was elected Chapter, has been chosen for in will receive her Wings of Gold and by the Colorado Springs City duction in the Forest of Friendship be designated a Naval Aviator in Council as a Commissioner on the at Atchison, Kans. the U.S. Marine Corps. A cer Colorado Springs Airport Advi emony was held at the base the sory Board, the second largest air JETTA SCHANTZ, Florida ater at Naval Air Station Whiting port in the state. Patsy is the first Firstcoast Chapter, was honored Field in Milton, Fla. and only woman to serve on this by the National Air and Space —Jeane Wolcott board. Museum on March 13 for estab Women With Wings Chapter. lishing the world record for alti MARY ANN SENFT, Colorado tude in a hot air balloon, 32,572 First Canadian Chapter: NAT Gulf Stream Chapter Chairman Chapter, is the first woman pilot feet. She also received the highest McHAFFIE placed in the Aer Maria Petritsis with WASP to build her own Lancair IV pres honor that can be bestowed in the obatics Competition with her Pitts Selma Cronan surized airplane and is planning to sport of ballooning, the Special in Collingwood, Ontario. fly it to Halifax for the Interna Montgolfiere Diplome Award by GILLIAN WATT placed second SELMA CRONAN was honored tional Convention this summer. the Federation Aeronautique at the Webster Memorial Trophy by the Gulf Stream Chapter for be The Lancair is a four-place com Internationale and the Interna Competition in Victoria. DENISE ing a member of The 99s for 50 posite-built aircraft capable of 350 tional Ballooning Commission of EGGLESTONE received an In years. Also, in 1994, as a retired miles per hour flight having a Paris, France. Only the seventh ternational Society of Women Air WASP, Selma received a personal TSIO 550 Continental twin-turbo- woman to win the award, she was line Pilots Scholarship. ADELE invitation to the White House by charged engine, thus allowing it to also honored by the National FOGLE was featured on the TV President and Mrs. Clinton for a go up to 29,000 feet with a cabin Aeronautic Association for taking show. Time of Your Life. reunion of the WASPS. Selma has altitude of 12,000 feet. She com part in one of the 10 most memo truly been an inspiration to the pleted it with about 3,500 hours rable flights in 1994. No one had Eastern Ontario Chapter: KAY Gulf Stream Chapter who puts her build time. It will be at the FBO at ever reached that height on a stock JAMES won the Ottawa Flying right up there with the greats like Halifax International Airport from balloon with no modifications. Club’s Philip Pantook Memorial Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline about July 3 to 7. It will be one of “All my life I wanted to ac Trophy at the OFC Wings dinner. Cochran. Sally Ride and Jeana ihe prettiest airplanes around... complish something,” said Jetta in LORNA DE BLICQUY has a Yeager.—Judy A. Maxwell, Gulf you can’t miss it! an interview with USA Today, “but chapter devoted to her in Shirlee Stream Chapter — Otto E. Senft I was never an athlete. These Smith Matheson’s book. Flying United Airlines, retired. awards show that no dream is too the Frontier. big.” RACES & R ALLIES YOUTH EDUCATION Members of the Kansas Chap tion of the activity until the fol ter met at Wellington Airport han lowing Saturday when they re R ACETO W flY U.S. gar to hold a ground school meet ceived rides with Jana Jadeborg in ing with almost 60 Home School her Champ, Janet Yoder in the Home of the A M students and their parents. Two Cub, Marilyn and Tommy George hangars, each with an airplane in the Cessna 172 and Denise and parked in it, were made available. Rex Sageser in the Cherokee 140. Tables and chairs were set up r ^ r z - i * classroom style and the young sters were divided into two 99s volunteers Karen Harker, Phoenix Chapter, and Lucy Enos, groups: Grades 1 to 4 and Sundance Chapter, at the Incredible Universe Phoenix 500 Air grades 5 and up. The FBO Races, Williams Gateway Airport. lobby was literally humming with excitement. AH students Phoenix 500 Air Races. The The Ninety-Nines played a were given an opportunity to second annual Incredible Uni vital role at the air races with sit in the cockpit where they verse Phoenix 500 Air Races several volunteers working long could handle the control col were held March 24-26 at the hours throughout the week. As umn and press the rudder ped Williams Gateway airport. For the liaison between the Phoenix als while the basic instruments merly Williams Air Force Base, Chapter and the Phoenix 500 were being explained. this beautiful airport facility is operations, 99 Stacy Hamm did Upon completion of the the perfect southwest backdrop a remarkable job of coordinat “ground school,” students for such an exciting event. Ap ing volunteers to keep everything were awarded a certificate proximately 150,000 people at running smoothly. —Karen with their name on it, and then tended. Harker, Phoenix Chapter all shared cake and lemonade Kansas Ninety-Nines shared their to celebrate the Chapter’s 44th 44th birthday cake with Mile High Air Derby (MHAD) will women, each of whom will win birthday. approximately 60 Young Eagles. (I to be held September 8,9 and 10. The spots by virtue of their perfor Through the EAA Young Derby will begin in Longmont and mance at the 1995 U.S. National Eagles Program, students were r) Front: Bonnie Johnson, Marilyn include a flyover at the Air Force Aerobatic Championships sched to have received an airplane George: Middle: Carol Lanning, Academy field, with stops at uled for September in Denison, ride after the ground school in Janet Yoder, Karen Tucker. Back: LaJunta and Alamosa. The desti Texas. For further information and struction, but winds in excess Maureen McMaster, Denise Sageser. nation is Taos where the awards tickets, call the All Sports Asso of 40 knots delayed that por Not pictured: Marguerite Lawrence. banquet will be held Saturday ciation at 405-236-5000. night, Sept. 9. Race packet infor Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-in R A T I NC S AN D WINGS mation is available for $5. Send will be held June 24-25 at Vance RATINGS your check to the Colorado 99s, Brand Airport in Longmont. Spon Attn: Linda Horn, Treasurer, Nancy Russell Rota Western Washington Instrument sors of this event are the Colorado 14437 W. 32nd Ave., Golden. CO Annabelle Brack San Joaquin Valley CFII 99s, the Experimental Aircraft Tacy Hahn San Joaquin Valley Instrument 80401-1475. Lotsofhelp is needed Association, the Antique Aircraft Helen Kerscher San Joaquin Valley Multiengine to continue making this annual Association and the Vance Brand Donna Cooper Renaissance Private Pilot event a great success. For more de Airport. Aircraft manufacturers Kathleen Newhouse Renaissance Multiengine tails, call or Fax Carol Leyner, 303- CFII & Instrument exhibit their hottest aircraft kits Becky Luther Virginia 442-5002. Ground Instructor and planes. Numerous aircraft pro Kate Anderson Orange County CFI U.S. Air Race & Rally will be held totypes and aviation businesses Christine Hoffman Orange County CFI June 10-15. The route is from the will be on site. In honor of the 25th Patty Murray Orange County Multi-Engine ATP wine country of Napa, Calif., to anniversary of the Aerobatic Club, Pat Noyes Orange County ATP & Type Rating in Citation cowboy country in Fort Worth, they will sponsor the First Invita III (CE-650) Texas, via Laughlin, Nev., Gallup tional Aerobatic Cup. To help, call Linda Eldridge Orange County Mission Pilot Status and Clovis, N.M. There will be at Bonita Ades, 303-795-6564. Patricia Mickey Zimmer Orange County Learjet Type Rating least $10,000 in prize money Linda Lindgren Connecticut Commercial Winston-Salem Airshow. Kansas Commercial awarded. Entry kits are $15. Call Debra Dolan Connecticut Chapter member Janet Rine from Donna-Marie Irwin Colorado First Officer in ATR 42 817-491-4055. North Carolina—better known as Palms to Pines Air Race from “The Dragon Lady”—is involved WINGS Santa Monica, Calif., to Bend, in putting on an airshow in Win Jennifer Russell San Joaquin Valley Phase I Ore., for women will be held Aug. ston-Salem Sept. 9-10. She will be Helen Kerscher San Joaquin Valley Phase 1 4-6. Entry blanks may be obtained flying the T-28. Y’all are invited to Ann Leininger Oklahoma Phase I from Claire Walters, Coordinator, see the large collection of warbirds Sara Parmenter Virginia Phase VIII 13026 Psomas Way, Los Angeles, and airshow acts. Betty Vinson Virginia Phase III Dot Strate Utah Phase 1 CA 90066. FREE CALENDAR for air shows is World Aerobatic Championships. N O T A M available by sending a stamped, normally held in Europe, will be self-addressed envelope to ICAS, Long-Range Plan Survey coming to Clarence E. Page Air 1931 Horton Rd., Ste 5, Jackson, Have you returned it? If not, please don’t delay. Do it today. We port in Oklahoma City, August 18- M l 49203. need your wisdom to guide us as we chart a course for the 99s into 30. The 1996 U.S. team will be | the 2 1 st century.—Cathie Mayr composed of five men and five 1 NEW HORIZONS The 99s extend their prayers She became one of Canada’s first She served during World War II COMING and thoughts to the families of female bush pilots. By 1942 she and the Korean War and retired the following 99s and 49 '/2s. was manager and CFI at St. from the Army in 1964 after 20 Catherine’s Flying Club. She years of service. She moved to SOON HAZLE NEALY, one of our joined the Air Transport Auxiliary Ottsville in 1985 from Santa Fe, Chapter’s charter members, died during the war and ferried many N.M. Her interest and enthusiasm recently. Hazle was very active as types of military aircraft for the for all phases of aviation will be to a computer long as she had her health and we RAF in England from 1943 to missed. —Harriet Brin, Monterey near you! shall miss her. —Helen Hewitt, 1945. Her favorite aircraft of all Bay Chapter Shreveport Chapter the 73 different kinds she flew was The Ninety-Nines the Spitfire. She was the first Ca JUANITA HALSTEAD died at Private Forum VIRGINIA ((JINNY) PACEY nadian woman licensed to fly a he her home in Montgomery, Ala., on on CompuServe of Greater Kansas City Chapter licopter. In 1981 she was named a Feb. 27. She was bom in 1917 and passed away on Feb. 27 after a member of Canada’s Aviation Hall was married to C. Foy Halstead for lengthy illness. She lived in of Fame and was inducted into the 62 years. He taught her to fly and On-Line Benefits Include: Leavenworth, Kans., most of her Forest of Friendship. Marion was she earned her license in 1954. She • CompuServe Services adult life where she and her hus obsessed with flying; she had helped found the Alabama Chap band, Bert, raised a family of two flown over 21,000 hours. Her ci ter and served as Chapter Chair • E-Mail sons, owned and managed two tation reads: “Her firm dedication man several times and as South • Conferences businesses. Ginny learned to fly in to aviation from use, her ability to east Section Governor. In 1966 she • Libraries/Messages 1972 and went on to get her impart knowledge and encourage flew in her first Powder Puff • Lots of fun! multiengine rating. She served in ment to students and her determi Derby and competed in 15 air For more information, many ways —on committees, Sec nation to succeed, have all been races, logging more than 5,000 contact: Pamela O’Brien at tion meetings and international of benefit to Canadian aviation.” hours. Her last major aviation ac conventions—and received the — Shirley Allen and Bev Batki, tivity was as judge for the 1993 916-973-1907 or via E-mail annual Chapter Achievement First Canadian Chapter Air Race Classic. She was spon at CompuServe 73003,2274 Award, the Blue Maxine, in 1977. sored by the Alabama Chapter into or Susan Larson at Both Ginny’s and her husband MARY THELMA BROWN, the Forest of Friendship in 1994. 408-274-9152 (eve). Bert’s names are in Memory Lane Mid-Atlantic Section, passed Ten 99s and former 99s from Ala The next issue of The 99 in the Forest of Friendship at away Sept. 25, 1994. “She was bama and Georgia served as hon Atchison, Kans. —Marj Engel- always proud of her membership orary pallbearers at her funeral. NEWS - International mann and JoAnn Reindl, Greater in the 99s. I miss her.” — Nancy A. Miller Women Pilots will contain Kansas City Chapter — 49 '12 W. Paul Brown Alabama Chapter an article explaining the concept, the benefits and MARY ANN WILES NOAH HARRIET DAVIDSON NYE, a Gordon Eddy Hansen, 49 '/2, the means to access the HAMILTON, Greater Kansas pioneer woman pilot in New died recently. “In 1971, for our new Ninety-Nines City Chapter, died March 28 at St. Mexico, died in February in Al 20th wedding anniversary, he said, Private Forum. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City. buquerque at age 88. She earned ‘Come fly with me! ’ He purchased She was born in Kansas City, Mo., her license in 1935, was the first a new Piper Cherokee 180 and we Watch for it! and lived in the area most of her woman to fly and to own her own both learned to fly. And fly we did! life. She obtained her pilot’s li plane in New Mexico which she Two trips to Alaska, six trips to the cense in 1959 and went on to re used for barnstorming over New Northwest Territories, Mexico and ceive her commercial, instrument Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. In all through the U.S. He absolutely BOOKS and multiengine ratings. She was 1938, wearing a pretty light blue was crazy about flying! It was Checklist for Success, a Pilot’s the 69th woman in the free world dress and a favorite hat, she flew wonderful flying with him for all Guide to the Successful Airline to receive her helicopter license. the first air mail delivery to those years and it was great that Interview She was a two-time winner of the Socorro in her four-seat Fairchild we were both pilots because that Powder Puff Derby and partici 125 as part of a U.S. Post Office made it more fun!” —Dr. JoAnn by Cheryl A. Cage pated and placed in other races. promotion called National Air Brown Hansen, Tucson Chapter This 104-page spiral bound work Mary Ann was widely known Mail Week. —Janice M. Rice, book is chock-full of information. throughout the aviation commu Albuquerque Chapter Lov E. “Speck” Morgan, 49 'l2 It covers gathering materials and nity. both locally and nationwide. of Vel Morgan, passed away on preparing your resume, setting up She was especially supportive of MAJOR MURIEL “MEG” April 7 at age 79. Speck and Vel an interview, what to do before you new pilots and provided several GUGGOLZ, Ottsville, Pa., died were married in 1974 and became go to an interview, what to wear, young pilots the opportunity to Feb. 9 at Leader Nursing and Re active participants in the activities how to prepare yourself mentally experience the excitement of rac habilitation Center in Pottstown of the Coastal Bend Chapter until and physically. Sample interview ing by inviting them to be her co from complications from a stroke it disbanded in 1991 when they questions are provided for prac pilot. Her true love was flying, rac she suffered last October. She was moved their membership to the tice, recommendations for ad ing and The Ninety-Nines, a truly a 1926 graduate of Cornell Uni San Antonio Chapter. Speck de dressing any problem areas, beautiful person. —Helen versity, a fencer in the 1932 Olym voted much of his time and effort sample checklists to follow both Hamilton, Kansas City Chapter pics in Los Angeles, and held a to the 99s and to other aviation ac before, during and after an inter nursing degree from Johns tivities as well, cohosting many view, and a discussion of common MARION A. POWELL ORR Hopkins University. She was a FAA safety seminars with Vel, applicant questions and concerns. was killed in a car accident April registered nurse in the Anny Nurse helping with airmarkings and Published by Cage Consulting. 4. Marion was bom in Toronto in Corps, serving in the South Pa sectionals and by spreading the For information on ordering, call 1920 and learned to fly in 1940. cific, Germany, Japan and Korea. message of women in aviation at 303-693-8910. every opportunity.______We welcome these 116 pilots who joined The 99s in Mar./Apr. N O T A M New York-New Jersey Carla McCormack Adams Mary Lou R. Hagan Michelle Marie Miller requests material Cheryl A. Adkins Melissa Courtright Haley Kathy L. Mital New York-New Jersey Mary Beth Alexander Valli M. Hansen Bonnie M. Morehead Section is updating their his Jody Beth Anderson Carol Anne Harris Jill Ellen Nickelsen tory. If you are now or have Mar Marid Ariza-Quinonero Mary-Kathryn Harrison Angela Marie Niles ever been a member of NY- Anne Constance Armstrong Colleen K. Hawkins Connie Marie O’Connor NJ Section, please let us Barbara B. Baer Janice R. Hebden Sharon Lee Ortega know. We gratefully accept Ann M. Barbiere Heidi Hernandez Theresa Mary Palmer your thoughts and ideas and want to accumulate material Nicole Robyn Barker Deborah Lee Herzog Zoann Palmer from as many sources as pos Constance J. Bay Sherrie L. Hill Gillian E. Parker sible. We will highlight his Jeanine M. Bertrand Susan L. Hofer Karen Marie Parrow tory in two major parts: Each Pamela S. Blackman Lezlie Jean Hood Karen Bonnie Person member, past and present, Michelle Ann Boeding Joan Lee Hombeck Elizabeth Jean Pippen the year joined, offices held, Fran Bohrer Lauren Kathleen Huffman Shelia Rae Ralph special activities and awards; Stacy M. Bonadio Elvor Ivarsson Jennifer Belle Reep and each year, especially Francine Sue Botton Lisa Nicole Johnson Ruth Rice member recollections of spe Deborah Ann Bow Cynthia Marie Kariolich Shirley G. Roberts cial events. Anna Gretchen Brand Phyllis J. King Susan M. Santa Cruz A copy of your biography and photo for the Turner His Janis M. Brown Sylvia Lee Kirkendoll Rhonda M. Sarkison tory Book would be a wel Patsy M. Buchwald Vicki Lynne Knight Michaele Sharlene Sastini come addition to our New Cheryl Lorraine Casillas Patrice C. Koen Renate Schmidt York-New Jersey Book, un Angela Densie Chandler Julianne Kathleen Kovalchuk Sally Keck Shapiro limited words and pages, of Rhonda Lynn Davis Danie Lachance Miel Elaine Silbernagel course. We plan to show our Jane Frances Decker Jan Wilson Lehman Katherine Elizabeth Smith progress at the NY-NJ Spring Iris Dewhurst Patricia Leon Anne M. Steams Section meeting in June. Heidi Martina Dietz Parwin Lehard, M.D. Cherie Marie Szetela Whatever help you can give Linda Gibbs Dittmer Jeannine S. Leriche Lynn Theresa Tasker us toward this project will be Mary Elizabeth Ducey Patricia M. Levesque Helen Taylor a tremendous contribution. Ditto for the Long Island Lynne E. Dunn Nicole Maureen Lewis Darla Jill Thompson Chapter history. Thanks for Carol Leslie Durkin Lisa Colleen Lippert Kazuko Uramatsu your help. 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