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Check out Gail Schipper flying Basic in her beautiful, baby-blue Bucker Jungmann video. Gail is based at Longmont, Colorado (KLMO).

Gail & her Bucker Jungmann

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Had a lovely first flight in the Bücker last Friday. Got the plane back in the air last week thanks to heroic work by my husband and a little help from me.

Pictures for you of my first flight after maintenance. Don’t know how I get so lucky to have people randomly taking pictures.

Thanks to Gail’s friend, Jacquelyn, for taking these great pictures!

However there’s no way to get time off to get to your flyin–but it sure would be fun! Sorry to miss it. Hope everything’s grand for the event!

Gail

Congratulations to Gail Schipper for her Second Place Award for ‘Most Unusual First Flights’ in the Centennial of Licensed Women Pilots Event.  The event was scheduled to honor the 100th anniversary of the first woman in the world to receive a pilot’s license, and I know at least 3 of our Lady Taildraggers participated! Gail lives in Colorado and even though the “Introduce another woman to Flight” event was the week of March 6, she still took four women for open cockpit rides in her Bucker Jungmann!  She says “No award was offered for the coldest”.   Gail gave four flights March 6 & 7 2010.

Watch Gail’s fun video where she introduced 4 ladies to taildragger flying:

Pictures courtesy of Richard Foord @ Richard.Foto4@btinternet.com.  Thank you, Richard, and also to Nic Orchard for sending the link on the Tiger Moth’s flying adventures over Gatwick in the UK.  This was one rare event for some lucky GA flyers, thanks to the volcanic eruption.

“This was probably a ” once in a lifetime ” opportunity and was hastily put together by enthusiastic Tiger Club members within a very short space of time while having a cup of tea and a piece of cake – a few phone calls later and all the usual reprobates arrived and after a briefing we were ready to go. This shows the true spirit of the Tiger Club and sport aviation – that’s what flying is all about – having jolly good fun !!  A total of thirteen aircraft formed the Balbo.”

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Pictures from this link:

Tiger Club Invades Gatwick

Gail Schipper flies a Bucker Jungmann and is based at Longmont, Colorado (KLMO).  She writes, ”There seems to be a terrible gap in your pilot map. WHAT! Not one in Colorado? I’m here to help you with that deficit.”

I wanted to fly since I was a kid and my uncle took my dad flying–my sister and I got to tag along in the back seat of the C182. It was the 1970s and everything was about space flight. My uncle flew some parabolas so we could experience zero gs. It was fabulous. I tried to get my license in high school but became convinced that I both couldn’t afford it and that I wasn’t gifted enough to figure out how to control an airplane. I had no female pilot role models and just couldn’t see that there was a place for me in that world.

After graduate school I met a woman who was just about to get her license and thought I should give it another try. At the party given for her completion of her private license I met a glider instructor, who later became my husband. I got my power license the day before our wedding, a wedding conducted in two Mooneys flying formation over NYC.

We have owned a 7AC Champ, two C170s and are now proud owners of a Bücker Jungmann. I fly some basic aerobatics and have competed in two local competitions–one of which I somehow won in the Primary category. The next goals are to continue working on Sportsmann-level aerobatic figures and begin to learn to do some sky-writing–just for fun. Smoke on!

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Gail also sent us a few of her videos!

Here’s a link to my latest video. My husband and I do lots of videos for fun. This one is from last weekend’s flights in honor of the 100th anniversary of women pilots:

Here’s a quick cutie taking my friend Natalie around the patch to “Where are the simple joys of maidenhood” from Camelot:

The summer I first learned to fly upside down was highly documented by my long-suffering husband.  This one is rather long but if you hang in until the end you get to hear me swear: