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Pilot’s Delight
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The trip was going to be simple, I thought. My friend Steve would give me a ride from Pal-Waukee Airport PWK (now Chicago Executive) and drop me off at a short grass strip near Rockford (RFD), some 50 miles west, where I’d grab another Cessna 150 and fly it back to PWK. A couple of […]
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An Upwind Battle for Women Pilots
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In the Beginning It was the afternoon of November 2, 1929, when a group of women pilots first gathered at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York. That meeting became the impetus for what became known as the Ninety-Nines, Inc., the International Organization of Women Pilots. The group named “Ninety-Nines” to represent the […]