Author Archives: mepps
Pre-Tweetup Gathering at IWASM
- Feb
- 27
- Posted by mepps
- Posted in Events Archive, IWASM News
For those attending the NASA Glenn tweetup in Cleveland on March 2d: The International Women’s Air & Space Museum will be hosting a pre-tweetup gathering on Thursday March 1 from 2-5 PM. We are FREE and have many space exhibits. Come join us.
read moreDr. Barbara Ganson to Speak About Harriet Quimby’s Fashionable Flight Suit
- Feb
- 22
- Posted by mepps
- Posted in IWASM News, Women in Air & Space News
- 2
As part of Women in Aviation Week Worldwide, March 5-11, 2012 and the one hundredth anniversary of the first crossing of the English Channel by airplane piloted by a woman aviator in 1912, that is by America’s own Harriet Quimby, the first U.S. licensed woman pilot, I will be giving a power point talk on […]
read moreIWASM Recent Acquisitions
- Feb
- 16
- Posted by mepps
- Posted in IWASM News
January 16th, Marcia Greenham delivered the memoribilia of Vi Blowers Stamm to IWASM. The donation consists of lots of air race trophies, awards, letters and photos of the USAF Thunderbirds and also of Air Force One. Vi was not only a fabulous pilot, but a seamtress that worked at Wright Patterson Air Force base. She […]
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