Girls, this was sent in by Gail Schipper (i.e. baby blue and beautiful Bucker Jungmann) and she wants to know who’s going to Blakesburg?

Gail says “I’d like to set Saturday as ‘Ladies Love Taildraggers’ t-shirt day. Love it if anyone else wants to go out and do some girlie fly-bys.”

National Antique Airplane Association Fly-In

August 31-September 5

Blakesburg, IA

Airport Identifier: IA27

D.J. Short's Monocoupe 90aw, NC15440

http://www.antiqueairfield.com/flyins/life-begins-at-forty.html

40th Anniversary of the National Antique Airplane Associations Fly-in at Antique Field, IA27. This year the featured airplane is the Monocoupe. 5 days of flying, camping (with showers) on the field, gorgeous airplanes.

2010 AAA/APM Fly-in Antique Airfield (looking NE)

Please  leave a Comment if you’re heading that direction and I’ll send you Gail’s email and cell number. What a great idea to get all the lady taildragger pilots together in one spot to meet and do some flying. GREAT idea, Gail! Hope others are going from our group. If you know a lady taildragger pilot you think may be going but may not get this notice, please let me know who. I’ll get a message off to them. Hope you all have a fabulous time!!!

Judy

LadyTaildraggers@gmail.com

Girls, is it possible – really – a woman can fly an airplane?!!? Say it ain’t so!! When I saw this this morning I laughed out loud. Marilyn Dash, veteran Reno pilot, posts on Facebook today…….

“So… Daisy had her second engine failure today. I made the runway … all is well.”

“You should have seen the fire trucks, local, county and state cops.”

“And everyone kept asking me where the pilot was… LOL!!”

I believe she was flying her Cherokee 140/160 but she flies a Pitts S1 at Reno.

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What year is this anyway??!! They’re standing there looking right at her, at her airplane but never crosses their minds it could be a woman flying it. Incredible!

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Great job getting it down Marilyn – and on a runway no less. You’ve got our respect!

2011 Taildragger Fly In and Pancake Breakfast

Waynesville, OH

Sunday, September 4, 2011
7:30 AM – 2:00 PM

Waynesville, OH, USA

Landing in La Toviere, France. Videos by Fabrizio Maffioletti flying his Jodel D18. Not only does this video put you in the pilot seat flying through these beautiful mountains, there’s a landing on grass and horses everywhere on the roll out.

Landing through horses

“Me with “Matisse”, my Jodel D18 at Meggiana, an Italian mountain uphill airstrip.”

Kaelin King is based at KMRT, Union County Airport, Marysville, Ohio.

Kaelin King

Hi! My name is Kaelin King, I’m 16 and have had a passion for flying ever since I can remember. My first trainer is a taildragger homebuilt that belongs to my father at Union County Airport and even though I have some hours in I have a lot to learn about flying. One day I’d like to pursue my love for flying by studying to be an Aerospace Engineer and with luck (and a couple more inches to pass the height requirement) I’d like to be a fighter pilot for the Navy.

Sisters Kaelin and Megan King

Currently I am working with much success on establishing an EAA Air Academy in Oshkosh Wisconsin, the aviation capital of the world, where other kids like me can come together to become the new generation of aviation icons. I have already attended a fly-in with the Ladies Love Taildraggers in Dayton and I’m very apt to get involved. I hope to attend more events soon.

Kaelin, Judy & Megan at the lady taildraggers fly-in

Kaelin King

Wings & Wheels Fly-in,Cruise-in Picnic

New Castle Municipal Airport(KUCP), Pennsylvania

Wings & Wheels Fly-In, Cruise-In 4th annual PICNIC-CORN ROAST

New Castle Municipal Airport August 27 2011.

11:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Saturday August 27 . FAA Safety Seminar at 11:00AM,concessions open at noon. End time 4:30 P.M.

Hosted by EAA Chapter 117. Corbi Air will be displaying the new Alto 100 light sport. Titan Aircraft to exhibit the stunning Titan T51 war bird Mustang P51replica. Wings of Freedom Pheonix-103 ultra light on display. Flightjunkies powered paraglider, PORKS RC Model club will be flying gas & electric RC models. Rapid Tappets Car Club Cruise-in. No charge cruise event open to all classic, vintage, muscle, street rod, antique or special interest domestic or import. You are invited to show off your wheels. Food concession by EAA 117 serving Sirloin burgers, sausage sandwiches, corn on cob, beverages.

Flight line of Experimental, Vintage, aerobatic, light sport, gyrocopters, war bird replicas and more. Free raffle for airplane ride. Fun day for all ages. Please plan to attend.

Contact: Tom Jones 330-758-2838

e-Mail tjonesav8r@sbcglobal.net

If you missed our lady taildraggers fly-in this year, here’s your second chance. Crank up the volume – music is Waterloo by ABBA!

Ladies Love Taildraggers

An unconventional fly-in for conventional-gear pilots

By Steve Schapiro, Senior Editor, EAA 1018168

Check out the article…..

http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-08-25_taildraggers.asp

Jeanne MacPherson sent these pictures from her trip last weekend to Schafer US Forest Service Airport (8U2), Schafer, Montana. Looks like a beautiful spot.

Charlie the 180 at Schafer (with Jeanne!)

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Fire in the Bob Marshall Wilderness

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Friend, Hank Galpin, in his beautiful TravelAir

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Schafer from the air

And just in case you’re like me and want to see what the terrain and runway are really like out there, check out this video.  If you like Bonanzas and nosewheel aircraft you’re going to be really happy. If you’re looking for taildraggers, maybe not so much. Looks like they’re having fun. Nice videos and pictures of the approach to Schafer, the airport and more.

New pictures from Tia!!

Tia Robertson is based at 5GA4, Air Acres Airport, Woodstock, Georgia.

Last spring my husband and I went to Winterhaven, FL to get a seaplane rating. It was so much fun!!!!! Now we are hooked and are talking about getting something of our own on floats.

I earned my private pilot license in a Luscombe 8E March 8th 1981. A few days later the Luscombe and I were on our way to the Sun-N-Fun Fly-in! I continued to build time and add an instrument & multi-engine rating, commercial, CFI and a few years later was flying Jetstreams for a commuter in Atlanta. A few more years and hours and I was hired by Eastern Airlines.

I’ve got my head down checking a few last minute things before the maiden voyage after some major restoration. It now has an 85 HP Continental and a wind driven alternator. It is so nice to have radios and a starter! We finished painting the grey stripes a few weeks later.

I went out on strike in 1989 and was later hired by United Airlines where I progressed from the engineers seat of a 727 to the right seat of a 737-200 then 757 and 767. In 2001 I took an early retirement to spend more time with my young family. I was a 737-500 Captain at the time. My husband and I have a Cessna 195 that we have had for 16 years and a Taylorcraft that has been with us for 29 years.

A friend took this picture of me leaving a beautiful flying community southeast of ATL

I love taildraggers because they just feel right! I wish I could make it up to the Dayton Fly-in but my youngest will be going off to college next week and I have much to do!

My husband Phillip and I with our 195 and Taylorcraft. After many years of making do with the limited amount of camping gear I could get in the Luscombe or Taylorcraft it sure is nice to have the extra space!

Tia Robertson

My husband bought a Fat Bob on Craig’s List in Jacksonville, FL so I flew him down to pick it up. It was a brisk winter day and he almost froze to death riding it home! Our son and his friend (pictured) flew home with me.

From Judy: I left a note on this beautiful 195 at Oshkosh after I heard a woman had flown it in. You know I’d give my eye teeth for a beautiful 195! When I heard it belonged to a woman it made my day.  OK, she shares it with her husband but all the better…. he’s got to be one happy guy. They’ve got a 195 and his wife loves to fly it!! Unfortunately, Tia left me a message they were heading out before I could meet her but she did register on Ladies Love Taildraggers. Thanks Tia!