FROM GLOVES TO HANDCUFFS
This week’s Ask Cap’n Meryl question: Into TheWind Before I tell you what the title of this Updatemeans, I have a few notes as usual:
First of all, I want to congratulate my friendCourtney Riecan, about whom I’ve written severaltimes in this Update. Courtney left her home inSeattle to pursue her dream of becoming aprofessional pilot and is now training at theDelta Connection Academy near Orlando. She hassuccessfully completed her first solo, which isone of the most exciting times in a new pilot’straining. I’ve posted two new photos tocommemorate her accomplishment in the “SkyLadies” album. Click here to see these two newphotos:Sky Ladies
In one photo, you see her fight instructorcutting her shirt tail, and in the next one, youcan see that the shirt tail commemorates herfirst solo flight. If you’re unfamiliar withthis custom, it is thought that it stems fromearly days in aviation, when pilots […]