Comments on: In 1940, pilot Catherine Winne ’41 was the first ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ female student to take to the skies /news/2019/03/22/in-1940-the-civilian-pilot-training-program-put-bates-students-in-the-air/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Randy Robinette /news/2019/03/22/in-1940-the-civilian-pilot-training-program-put-bates-students-in-the-air/#comment-264416 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:48:03 +0000 /news/?p=121290#comment-264416 In reply to Heidi Lee Hoerman.

Randy Mulherin, the instructor in the seat above, was my grandfather. I love to read these old stories about him since he was lost in a PV1 crash in 1956 when I was a toddler. He and my father went down together as pilot and co-pilot.

]]> By: Julia Malkin /news/2019/03/22/in-1940-the-civilian-pilot-training-program-put-bates-students-in-the-air/#comment-263201 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:25:00 +0000 /news/?p=121290#comment-263201 I am another ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ pilot. I took my first check ride in a 1947 Aeronca Champ (similar to the Piper Cub featured in this article) when I was 60, fulfilling a life long dream. Sometimes, when flying in to a good headwind, I look down at the cars on the highway and see them going faster than I. Julie Ragan Malkin ’75

]]> By: Heidi Lee Hoerman /news/2019/03/22/in-1940-the-civilian-pilot-training-program-put-bates-students-in-the-air/#comment-263199 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:06:00 +0000 /news/?p=121290#comment-263199 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ can also make claim to the first female Coast Guard pilot, Janna Lambine ’73.

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