JEAN LANDIS WASP PILOT Book Launch Coming in July Well we didn’t get the Jean Landis WASP Pilot book launch done, did we! May 18 was a BIG DAY on my calendar, but Covid did me in. Rather than subject you to my raspy bass voice, we decided it best to wait until later. July…
American Aviation Has Lost a Giant Emily Hanrahan Howell Warner — born in Denver, Colorado, October 30, 1939 — made history. The first female pilot hired by a major U.S. scheduled airline, Emily took her final flight west on July 3, 2020. Bea Khan Wilhite, former president of the Colorado Aviation Historical Society and Emily’s…
The First of a Series: Nadine Nagle, My WASP Friend © 2020, Sarah Byrn Rickman This is the first of a series of Blog Posts I plan to write about WASP have I met and had the pleasure of knowing personally. The first was Nadine Nagle. She and I would go on to travel together…
12 More Women Pilots Pass Dr. Lovelace’s Tests Continued from last week — June 5 post Dr. Randolph Lovelace now had 12 more women pilots who qualified for the testing the first seven male astronauts had undergone. The 12 joined with Jerrie Cobb in the program that came to be known as the Mercury 13….
The Space Race: Who Gets to Go First? In 1957, when the space race began, aviation was a man’s field. On October 4, that year, the world was turned on its head, never to be the same again. The Russians launched Sputnik 1 and space flight was born. The 23-inch-in-diameter sphere with two sets of…
Women Flew Combat Support in Desert Storm “In Desert Storm, women were allowed to do combat support and combat service support,” Vicky Calhoun explained in last week’s Blog. “Then into the 1990s, the Air Force let women into fighter aircraft. That helped erode the Army argument that women couldn’t fly combat aircraft. “Now women military…
Air Assault: A Battalion of Chinooks Launch Last week’s post concluded with these two paragraphs: On January 15, 1991, the United Nations gave Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to withdraw from Kuwait. He didn’t budge, and on January 17, U.N. forces led by the U.S. attacked Iraq. Desert Shield had become Desert Storm, and a five-week…
The First Gulf War Army Chinook Pilot Looks Back on Her Service Part I: The three part story of one Desert Storm helicopter pilot. Captain Victoria Calhoun sat on the “ass end” of her CH-47D Chinook helicopter—parked nose to tail with Alpha Company’s other 15 choppers. The night was clear, the stars looked close enough…
Flight to Destiny – Pearl Harbor Revisited All of Pearl Harbor was spread out in front of Annie. The water itself appeared to be on fire. Japanese planes zoomed back and forth, diving, climbing, turning, shooting at everything that moved — planes, boats, trucks, cars, bicycles, people. Recall Reading These Words Back in January? They…
Thanks to The Gazette for Recognizing This Program Amazing! That’s what these last few weeks have been to me. Any of you who follow my blog posts and biweekly newsletters — or who are in tune with me on Facebook — are somewhat aware of this. And my Colorado Springs friends who take The Gazette…
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