Tag: Martha Wagenseil

•  “I didn’t realize the sand was so deep; when I started to land, I buried the wheels.”

  

  Or How Martha Almost Washed Out of WASP School… In 1996, Martha Wagenseil Davis (43-W-2) visited Ruth Franckling Reynolds (43-W-2) at the Reynolds family farm in the Catskills. It would be their last visit together. Photo Credit: Women in Pursuit (1993) by Kay Gott; page 205 by Margaret DiBenedetto Martha: In 1942 I wanted to…

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  April 17, 2024

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  aviation, aviation history, aviators, Martha Wagenseil, Martha Wagenseil Davis, Ruth Franckling, Ruth Reynolds, Women Airforce Service Pilots, women aviators, women pilots

• A Pair of Trainers, A Pair of Friends

  

  By Margaret DiBenedetto The Texan AT-6 was one of North American Aviation’s most successful training aircraft. Modified designs of the craft were used to train aerial combat pilots from World War II through the 1970’s. Equipped with a nose-mounted .30 caliber machine gun that fired through the propeller, the Basic Combat model, the BC-1, also…

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  July 10, 2023

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  aviation, aviation history, aviators, Martha Wagenseil, Ruth Frankling, the catskills, Upstate New York, Women Airforce Service Pilots, women aviators, women pilots