Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots was a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, way back in 1993. Interviewer/photographer Carolyn Russo talked to 36 women pilots - student pilots, pilots, astronauts, etc., and tells their story in the book.
In subsequent entries in this blog, I'm going to chronicle my attempts to discover what has happened to these 36 women, 12 years later.
Ellen Paneok - Alaskan bush pilot
Linda V. Hutton - Captain, United States Navy
Fay Gillis Wills - Aviation pioneer
Marsha Ivins - astronaut
Victoria Van Meter - student pilot
Marty Goppert - Flying Circus pilot
Patrice Clarke-Washington - Captain
Krista Bonino - 1st Lt, US Army, Helicopter pilot
Linn Buell - glider pilot
Jean Ross Howard-Phelan - Aviation pioneer
Mary Edna Fraser - Aerial artist
Mayte Greco - Search and rescue pilot
Florence Partlett - Airport operator
Shannon Lucid - Astronaut
Lori Love - crop duster
Madge Rutherford Minton - WASP
Kim Darst - Heilcopter pilot
Patty Wagstaff - Aerobatic pilot
Ida Van Smith-Dunn - Pilot
Susan Pierce - Hang glider pilot
Susan Still - Lt, US Navy, combat pilot and astronaut
Mary Ellen Weber - Astronaut
Gayle Ranney - Alaskan bush pilot
Suzanne Ashbury-Oliver - Skywriter
Yvonne McDermott - Pilot
Betty Skelton-Frankman - Aerobatic pioneer
Michele Summers - First Officer
Troy Devine - Captain, USAF
Evie Washington - pilot
Bonnie Wilkens - Helicopter pilot
Dorothy Aiksnoras-Vallee - First Officer
Marilyn Bridges - Aerial photographer
Doris Lockness - Flying octogenarian
Eileen Collins - Lt Colonel, USAFand Astronaut
Patricia Jenkins - Helicopter pilot
Marsha Neal - Astronaut
3 comments:
How did you get on ?
Lori Love was my son's special needs instructor and later my friend. I was thinking about her tonight. I went back to college late in life and she told me that she would start ferrying planes to pay for return to school. I keep thinking she still might show up any day. If anyone could, it would be her.
http://www.dropzone.com/forum/Community_C7/Blue_Skies_-_In_Memory_Of_F48/Lori_Love_P2922144/
Lori Love was my son's special needs teacher and afterwards we kept in touch. I wrote her when I decided to go back to college late in life and she wrote back to say that she had decided to go back to school also and would start ferrying planes to pay for it.
http://www.dropzone.com/forum/Community_C7/Blue_Skies_-_In_Memory_Of_F48/Lori_Love_P2922144/
I miss her. We had plans to meet up and have margarita's the next time she was in California. I'm holding her to that still. :o)
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