#WASP Lois Katherine Gott Chaffey 43-W-2 Only knew her briefly, but what an enthusiastic powerhouse! “Two years and eleven days” a WASP (18 Jul 1920–21 Aug 2017) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

Boaters on Diamond Lake Oregon @photography

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: A FAILURE “It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.” - Mark Twain's Notebook #quote #MarkTwain

The joy of getting your first toy after being rescued: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Awwww/s/ft...

Mount Thielsen Oregon #photography #blueskyMonday

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

Anne TePas Wiltsee 44-W-5 Assigned: Eagle Pass AAF, TX (18 September 1922 - 2 Jul 1984) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: WEAKNESS “The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.” -The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg #quote #MarkTwain

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

A Boy and His Dogs Medford, Oregon #photography

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: LUCK “It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often, and so undeservedly succeed, when the informed and the experienced fail.” - Mark Twain in Eruption #quote #MarkTwain

#WASP FRIENDS Ann Pedroncelli Connelly 44-W-7 (14 June 1923 – 7 April 1992) Vivian Phyllis Gilchrist Nemhauser 44-W-3 (20 July 1919 – 18 May 2003) #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

Meet the #WASP women who TAUGHT MEN NOT TO BE AFRAID TO FLY THE B-29 ---

Easter, 1912.

#WASP Shirley Slade Teer 43-W-5 Flew Bell P-39 Airacobras. Stationed at Harlingen AAF, Harlingen, Texas. - Flying the Heavies. Martin B-26 Marauders.

Former Trolley Track – Now City Road #photography

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

Flight Time -The Long and the Short Of It #WASP Elizabeth “Betty” Haas Pfister 43-W-5 (23 Jul 1921- 17 Nov 2011) Madge Rutherford Minton 43-W-4 (22 Mar 1920- 7 Nov 2004) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: DILIGENCE “Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.” - Speech 30 March 1901 #quote #MarkTwain

I have a 90+lb dog that apparently identifies as a chihuahua. #napbuddy

Evelyn Genevieve “Sharpie” Sharp 3 April 1944 #The38 #WAFS/#WASP Evelyn Genevieve “Sharpie” Sharp P-38 crashed after she lost power on takeoff. Airport in her hometown, Ord, Nebraska, named in her honor. (20 October 1919 – 3 April 1944) #RIP ...

Schonchin Butte Lookout Lava Beds National Monument, California

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: NECESSITY “Necessity is the mother of taking chances.” - Roughing It #quote #MarkTwain

🛡️ Ukrainian air defence downs 26 Russian missiles and 515 drones, strikes recorded at 20 locations

This way to the lake. #photography

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: The Promise “To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.” - Adventures of Tom Sawyer #quote #MarkTwain

#WASP Carolyn P. Wood Haumerson Osmun Saas 44-W-1 Soprano who gave up her career to join the WASP Assigned: Childress AAF, TX. (29 December 1919 – 16 June 2006) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS -- #WASP Who Died While Flying for Their Country n April - During WWII #RIP Women Airforce Service Pilots #RIP #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

Trinity Church and Cemetery Newport, Rhode Island #photography

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: April Fool’s Day “This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar t#quote #MarkTwain

Tow-Target Fliers #WASP – Women Airforce Service Pilots In Cockpit” Gertrude “Brownie” Brown Kindig Class 43-W-1 (Guinea Pigs) (21 Aug 1920-7 Apr 1992) Curtiss A-25A Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

Not-So Subtle Suggestion #WASP Class 44-W-10 Jean Moreo Terrell McCreery 44-W-10 (28 April 1924– 10 May 2018) Suzette Van Daell Douglas 44-W-10 (10 Dec 1922– 14 Jan 2014) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: THE VOTE “Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.” - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour t#quote #MarkTwain

How to Spell Spring, #photography

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

Nevada #BlueSkyMonday

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

#WASP Mary Virginia Edith Estill Fearey 43-W-8 Assigned: Love Field, Dallas, TX. TWA’s 1st woman radio operator – Link Instructor (30 March 1917– 26 April 1989) Birthday 🎂 Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII

#WASP Josephine Ada Pitz Egan 43-W-5 Pilot license 1930 as High School senior. U of Wisconsin 1935 (chemistry) Assigned: New Castle AAF, Delaware (30 Mar 1913– 13 Apr 2006) Women Airforce Service Pilots Birthday 🎂 #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #WWII

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: BELIEFS “Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.” - 3,000 Years Among the Microbes #quote #MarkTwain

A man went to adopt a cat, but it refused to be separated from its companion, so he ended up taking them both home. Original post

Besties forever… “I got you” 😭

August 1944 First #WASP Assigned to Ellington AAF, TX Hazel Ricter (13 Oct 1915 – 29 Aug 1985) Florine Phillips Maloney (14 Jan 1920 – 3 Apr 2013) Barbara Fleming (30 Nov 1920 – 3 Jul 2001) Women Airforce Service Pilots #WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #WWII

TRANSATLANTIC PHOTO OF THE DAY The Women Who Raced to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean #Aviation #WomenInAviation #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots

ACCORDING TO SAM Mark Twain has a thought about: POPULARITY “The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. - Notebook, 1895 #quote #MarkTwain

Contrail #photography