Tag: Ruth Franckling

•  “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

• Ward and Ruth’s Halcott Airstrip

  

  By Margaret DiBenedetto In 1945, Ward Reynolds was fresh out of the Army. During his tour he’d seen action in the Pacific Islands, had come back stateside and was in training to become an Army glider pilot when the war ended.  Ward was born in Fleischmanns and grew up working on the family farm in…

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  May 12, 2023

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  aviation, aviation history, aviators, Fleischmanns NY, Ruth Franckling, Ruth Reynolds, the catskills, Upstate New York, Women Airforce Service Pilots, women aviators, women pilots, Woodstock NY