For further information contact:
Lisa Cotham
International PR Chairman PR@ninety-nines.org
Ninety-Nines Urges Women Pilots to Fly a Friend
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Susan Larson, President of The Ninety-Nines, has committed to flying women who have never flown in both her Cessna 182 and Hughes 500 helicopter during the week of March 6-12 in celebration of 100 years of licensed women pilots. "I can't imagine a more satisfying reason to go fly, not that we really need one," said Larson.
Eighty years ago, 26 women pilots met in a hangar at Curtis Airport in Valley Stream, Long Island, NY, for the purpose of creating an organization “just for women pilots.”
Monday, November 2, 2009
NINETY-NINES CELEBRATES 80 YEARS
“The women are going to organize….we don't know what for.”
--unknown newspaper columnist, November 2, 1929
Eighty years ago, 26 women pilots met in a hangar at Curtis Airport in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, for the purpose of creating an organization “just for women pilots.”
Only two months before, at the conclusion of the inaugural Women's Air Derby in Cleveland, Ohio, Louise Thaden, winner of the large engine class; Phoebe Omlie, winner of the small engine class; Gladys O'Donnell, Amelia Earhart, Blanche Noyes, and Ruth Nichols met under the spectator bleachers to discuss the race experience...
