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FLIGHT  TO DESTINY Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 CHAPTER ONE ( PART 2)  The airport lay right next to the harbor. Tom tapped her shoulder, his mouth next to her ear so she could hear [...]

FLIGHT TO DESTINY CHAPTER ONE (Part 1) Annie Gwynn nudged the control stick to the left, touched her foot to the left rudder pedal, and put the small, single-engine airplane into a shallow bank. [...]

Twenty-five Years Ago, a Magical Christmas On December 20, 1994, the four Rickmans — we were four then — celebrated our older son’s 28th birthday in a village near Berchtesgaden, Germany. The [...]

BRAG TIME! Sarah Wins Second Combs-Gates Award … and my THANKS to the National Aviation Hall of Fame for the honor! The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) proudly reports that Sarah Byrn [...]

Saturday night, November 2, I dined with 75-plus fellow members of The Ninety-Nines, Inc., the international organization of licensed women pilots.  A smattering of husbands, fondly known as [...]

A Visit to Atchison’s Old-Fashioned Soda Fountain When was the last time you had a chocolate soda at a real old-fashioned soda fountain? Think “old-fashioned” as when those of us of a [...]

Welcome to The Forest of Friendship Atchison, Kansas, high on a bluff overlooking the west bank of the Missouri River, is the birthplace of Amelia Earhart. Nicknamed “Lady Lindy,” she is the [...]

Sarah’s Books Win Combs-Gates Aviation Writing Award Tuesday, September 10, lightning — the good kind — struck a second time. I learned that I had won my second Combs-Gates Award, this time [...]

Thirty-eight WASP perished performing their patriotic calling — flying for their country in World War II. All were young women, age 20 to early 30s — women whose futures would never be realized. [...]

My 99s Conference With Daniel July 16-21, I returned to Dayton, Ohio — my home for 36 years.  A visitor this time, I was there to attend my first International Ninety-Nines conference. I took my [...]