Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Air Race Classic 2009 Coverage

Life on the Road as a Pilot from thegirlswithwingsblog.blogspot.com
It is nearly 5:30 am and we are packing up for the AirRace. I can't believe it. This has come along so quickly that it has hardly sunk in yet. I am very glad we decided to get a hotel room near the airport.
My race partner, Heather, and I sat through more briefings yesterday and did more flight planning when we could. We stopped by the pilot shop and bought more VFR Sectional Charts. Drew the flyby instructions on our approach charts. Visited Walmart (which Heather has only been to twice) to grab some last minute supplies and food to snack on along the way. ...

Fliers start four-day race - Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR
BY MICHELLE PARKS Special to the Democrat-Gazette Laura Berry of Harrison (left) and Camelia Smith of Springdale stand by Smith's Cessna airplane in Mansfield, Mass., after completing last year's Air Race Classic. The women are participating in this ...

Air Race to land in Atlantic - Radio Iowa, IA
by Ric Hanson, KJAN, Atlantic The 80th Annual Air Race Classic takes to the skies today, beginning in Denver, Colorado, flying into the deep south and back to the Midwest to wrap up in western Iowa. The all-women transcontinental air race began 33 ...

Boilers lift off in Air Race Classic! - WLFI.com, IN
You can follow them on our Air Race Classic Tracker Page . Senior captain Juliana Lindner and junior co-pilot Lauren Steele left West Lafayette last week to prepare for this year's Air Race Classic. The duo is competing against teams from six other ...

Purdue pilots sky high for air race from www.wlfi.com
Two Purdue students are taking to the skies in a race that dates back to the days of Amelia Earhart.
Aviation students Juliana Lindner and Lauren Steele are flying a Piper Warrior against teams from six other colleges in the all-female Air Race Classic.

Air Race Classic flies into Colorado - 9NEWS.com, CO
ENGLEWOOD - Thirty-two pilots took off from Centennial Airport in Englewood Monday morning for a cross-country race, marking the 80th anniversary of an air race that opened the door to female pilots. The Air Race Classic is a four-day race which ...


More 2009 ARC Headlines from the Air Race Classic website!


Update: 23-Jun-09 1000z

The Race is On! - Snoweagles Race Team
Our time across the timing line this morning (unofficial) was 14 22 05 Z (8:22am MT) at Denver Centennial. Off to a flyby at Liberal, KS then onto Sweetwater, TX where we made a full stop for fuel & a quick turn to continue onto Lufkin, TX. We passed the timing line here at 21 55 22 Z (3:55pm CT). While we were enroute, a convective sigmet was posted, and since no HIWAS stations were near (and Lufkin's VORTAC with HIWAS is unoperative) I called Flight Watch for weather while northeast of Waco. ...

Fly girls: Thirty-two teams fly into Angelina County Airport for annual Women's Air Race - Lufkin Daily News
The Angelina County Airport was buzzing with excitement as the first of 32 teams radioed in for landing at the Lufkin leg of the 33rd annual Women's Air Race, which is celebrating the 80th year of women's air racing.
Marie and Susan Carastro, one of the race's mother-daughter teams, were the first to land Tuesday afternoon. ...

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