Tag: Ruth Frankling

• 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…

  Full Court Press

  July 10, 2023

  Blog, Mountain Essays

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