“Thank You” IWASM and My Mentor Joan Hrubec IWASM, the International Women’s Air & Space Museum, is hosting the launch of my newest book—Teresa James’s biography—October 20 at 7 pm Eastern Time, 5 pm Mountain Time. Join me and many of my friends and fellow advocates of the amazing women pilots who flew for our…
Teresa James WAFS Pilot Gear Up/Gear Down—a P-47 to Newark Book Launch October 20, Presented by IWASM the International Women’s Air & Space Museum When it comes to flying, Teresa James was one of the best. She mastered 26½ tail spins followed by a series of loop-ti-loops in a vintage Travel Air OX-5 to become a…
A 1930s Flyer With a 20th Century Attitude The WASP Museum, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, is currently honoring original WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) #22, Dorothy Fulton. Check it out!!! Here is my personal tribute to Dorothy. No pilot expects the propeller to drop off an airplane. But that is how nineteen-year-old Dorothy Fulton came to…
Hometown Pilot Betty Gillies’ Impressive Legacy BY KAREN BILLING, STAFF WRITER Rancho Santa Fe News, Rancho Santa Fe, California (Reprinted with permission) NOV. 10, 2020 4:56 AM PT The late Betty Gillies, a trailblazer in women’s aviation, is featured in the new young adult novel “Betty Gillies: WAFS Pilot”, a true story written by Sarah Byrn Rickman drawing on the…
Dateline: Tuesday, July 20, Colorado Springs… Normally a late riser —never before 8 — I set my alarm this morning for 5:45. My friend and first fight instructor, Wally Funk, was lifting off on a Space Flight and I wanted to watch. Wally posing in a space suit. I was on the computer by 6:15…
IWASM Invites YOU: Film & Program Via ZOOM You are invited to join me — via ZOOM — Wednesday, July 7, at 7 Eastern, 6 Central, 5 Mountain, and 4 Pacific Daylight Time for a showing of my documentary film, Six WAFS Up Close and Personal, courtesy the International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM)….
99s Museum of Women Pilots Celebrates Bessie’s 100th Anniversary When Bessie Coleman earned her pilot’s license on June 15, 1921 — 100 years ago — she was the first Black individual, man or women, to do so. Bessie Coleman wanted to fly, to feel the wind in her hair and on her face. She wanted…
My Mom: Basketball, Bridge, Racing Form, Mathematics Whiz! My mother played forward on the team that won the Tennessee girls state championship basketball tournament in 1924!!! This revelation came as a great surprise to me, because in my day — 30 years later — girl’s high school basketball was a gym class only sport! We did…
To the Writer It’s About Story and Voice Dorothy Scott earns her wings and flies — this is what she loves. Her country is at war. She joins the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and flies military aircraft for her country. She dies in a fiery crash. She is 23. By the time the war…
THANK-YOU TO ALL MY BOOK REVIEWERS! Last weekend I received my most recent review of Betty Gillies WAFS Pilot and I want to share it. In fact, I’d like to share several of my reviews. This just in from Margaret Dennis “Peg” Carnahan, Lt. Col. USAF (retired), a 1980 graduate of the U.S. Air Force…
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