black pilots

In this expert from my Writers’ Room interview with Merryl Tengesdal (which is actually S2E2), she shares her lessons learned from pressing to get her memoir published on a tight timeline driven by her appearance on the reality TV series, Tough as Nails, and she tells all of you out there who are on the fence about writing your memoirs to Just Do It! 

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Blue skies, happy reading, and happy listening!

-Liz Booker

In this except from my conversation with Retired Air Forces Colonel Merryl Tengesdal, she talks about taking off in the U2 Reconnaissance aircraft with the assistance of 'pogos' - training wheels for the wings on this bicycle-gear configured aircraft with a 103' wingspan. 

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• Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter.
• Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages.
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• Follow me on social media, join the book club, and find all of the things on the Literary Aviatrix linkt.ree.

Blue skies, happy reading, and happy listening!

-Liz Booker

Black history in aviation. In this interview with Casey Grant, one of the first Black women to serve as a flight attendant (stewardess) for Delta, we talk about her successful initiative to designate February 16th as International Black Aviation Day (IBAD), and her books STARS IN THE SKY, STARS AND BEYOND, and its accompanying children's activity book. We also talk about her interview series, The Fly Girl Show on blog talk radio. You can find Casey at www.theflygirl10.net. 

Thanks so much for listening!

• Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter.
• Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages.
• Become a Literary Aviatrix Patron and help amplify the voices of women in aviation.
• Follow me on social media, join the book club, and find all of the things on the Literary Aviatrix linkt.ree.

Blue skies, happy reading, and happy listening!

-Liz Booker

Bessie Coleman looked to the skies to show people how high they could soar! Join us for a conversation about how "Queen Bess" turned her dream of becoming a pilot into reality. She forged a path where none existed and upheld her integrity and that of her community, showing us that we all can "amount to something."