First Female Licensed Pilot in Howard County Iowa

[murphy1244]

Yep. I'm sure there were no restrictions on the crowds in her time.

My Cousin has a picture of one of here show crew crashing but I didn't get a pic of it. Propeller broke off and tore the right wing off. Plane is heading straight down, 100ft or so off the ground. Someone had wrote on it "last few seconds of a life".

missed my edit of the crash

 

[ovrszd]

missed my edit of the crash

And the race goes on.

 

[TractorGuy]

That is VERY COOL! Thanks for sharing.

44 years ago I worked for a guy that was in his 70s. He taught himself to fly in bi-wings. He did the whole barnstormer wing walking thing. Made a parachute jump on his 70th birthday.

Here is a tip on the sideways pictures. Some viewers will turn them when they are in fact crooked. If you set folder properties in windows to view thumbnails it will show them crooked if that is the way the camera oriented them. You can select one or multiple photos, right click, and select rotate clockwise or counterclockwise and windows will fix them.

 

[Citydude]

We're they still racing after the crash? The train doing 50mph going through the viewing area was kind of weird too.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Great post; beautiful and accomplished lady. You have right to be proud...the Greatest generation shows its true colors again. May she rest in peace.

 

[ovrszd]

That is VERY COOL! Thanks for sharing.

44 years ago I worked for a guy that was in his 70s. He taught himself to fly in bi-wings. He did the whole barnstormer wing walking thing. Made a parachute jump on his 70th birthday.

Here is a tip on the sideways pictures. Some viewers will turn them when they are in fact crooked. If you set folder properties in windows to view thumbnails it will show them crooked if that is the way the camera oriented them. You can select one or multiple photos, right click, and select rotate clockwise or counterclockwise and windows will fix them.

The pics are correctly oriented in my computer file. Only turn when I post them on here. If I right click them after they post on here I don't get the choice to rotate them. I tried rotating them to the right for example before I select them to post here and they then post turned to the right too far.

 

[George2615]

Thanks for sharing Richard. Your aunt was truly ahead of her time in her accomplishments at such a young age. May she rest in peace.

 

[ovrszd]

Great post; beautiful and accomplished lady. You have right to be proud...the Greatest generation shows its true colors again. May she rest in peace.

Thank you. I was very honored to have her in my life.

 

[ovrszd]

We're they still racing after the crash? The train doing 50mph going through the viewing area was kind of weird too.

Life goes on right?

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks for sharing Richard. Your aunt was truly ahead of her time in her accomplishments at such a young age. May she rest in peace.

That was what amazed me about her. No one but herself pushing her to excel. My Uncle Merrill was a soft spoken, quiet farm boy. I always wondered how they got together until I read her notes. She mentions "deciding to get married to a nice farm boy nearby". She totally hunted him down. I'm sure he never even saw her coming!!!! They were an awesome couple.