Sunday, October 4, 2015

Girls in Aviation Day

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The river from Holman Field, the St. Paul airport. 

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Used mostly for smaller private planes for local industry, it's a small field with one added bonus: an old Fedx plane that has been re-purposed into a classroom called The Learning Jet

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Local organizations partnered together for a "Girls in Aviation" Day, featuring flights in 2- and 4-seater planes, booths hosted by local aerospace organizations, and famous women pilots.

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In the pilot's seat of the Learning Jet.

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Look at that view!

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Me and Betty Strohfus, a WASP pilot from Minnesota that is one of my particular friends since I met her as a young girl at an aerospace museum.  She is quite a firecracker!

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