FAST is a relative term. Rocket races bikes, and although she doesn't get over 160 mph very often, when your knee is an inch off the ground going around a hairpin turn, that's pretty damn fast!
Which segues neatly into...The Plane-Girls Air Racing Team. Hold your applause, please!
It's not exactly Reno, and it's not exactly fast (fast being a relative term). But the Plane-Girls of Texas, with a little luck and a lot of hard work, will race in the Womens Air Race Classic in 2009, Denver to Iowa. ARC is the new name for Amelia Earhart's All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, started in 1929, commonly known as the Powder Puff Derby (Steve Canyon's girlfriend used to race in the PPD. Anyone remember Steve Canyon?)
Plane-Girls Chief Pilot Nicole Boettger (Nicky Bravo) raced in the 2008 ARC on her own dime, and suggested we put up a Plane-Girls team for 2009. It took almost a full second for everyone to think it through and jump on it!
P-G's Chief of Maintenance Vanessa Tromm (Roxy) is fixing up the 172 (we still need to put the wing back on, had a little corrosion on the spar to clean up). Roxy will co-pilot and see to the mechanical necessities.
The first lady of the Plane-Girls, Chasity Ballard (Tiger 1), will fly back seat as navigator (we get an extra point in the handicap for three).
Like I said, it's not exactly Reno, but it IS cheap (cheap being a relative term, too), and it's something we can do. So wish us luck and fair winds, and if you're on the route, slow down your scan and look for the pink and white Cessna 172. The competitive spirit is just as strong. You can keep up on the P-G News blog, just pick on the banner on our home page. And visit Rocket while you're hangin' out with the Plane-Girls.
Finally, if you have more money than sense and want to help sponsor the Plane-Girls Racing Team, then send me an e-mail. If you dink around with women or airplanes, money goes FAST (fast being a relative term). If you work with both like I do, we have to consider Einstein's relativity. Money disappears at the speed of heat! (approximately warp factor 3.2, in relative terms).
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