November 4, 2003 Update: Wings of Their Own Dear Friends: Thanks to all who have sent photos and footage. We are editing right now, and it will be a real challenge to get all those hours of footage down to 90 minutes! Since the last update we have: • Been turned down by Weight Watchers; but no one else yet for sponsorship • Interviewed Elinor Smith Sullivan for two and a half hours • Interviewed Julie Clark and ten other women pilots at the Placerville Air Show • Interviewed Terry London Rinehart and her twin girls, and many other wonderful women at the Kaiser Air FBO in Oakland, CA. Agata Pares flew in special for us from Utah to talk about the program at Westminster College, AND had special footage sent • Spoke with Cheryl Baker about Bobbi Trout, and got four tapes of footage of Bobbi to access. • Interviewed Jean Tinsley about the Whirly Girls, and toured the Bell helicopter training facility with Alacia Lane • Received footage from NASA with and about Eileen Collins • Did special interviews with a Captain and with the Director of Systems Safety for Jet Blue out on the ramp. They let us shoot in and around an empty plane at JFK! • Taped an interview with Anne Sulton, Board member of the Bessie Coleman Foundation • Went to Dallas / Fort Worth to meet with • Wally Funk teaching Nanette Malher and talking about the Mercury 13 and Xprize experience • Beverley Bass who now is a 777 check pilot (among other things) for American Airlines • Pat Keefer who won an Around the World air race with her mother , the founder of the Marion Jayne Air Race • And Dr. Kate Landdeck, expert on the WASP at Texas Woman’s University. We also started the Make Believe TV archives there so that all our footage may be used by researchers, with permission, for years to come. • Received excellent tapes from the WASP archives, Emily Howell Warren, and Pat Keefer • Interviewed an alumnus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who is a CFI and an Air Traffic Controller and going for an eventual job with an airline. • Interviewed a gal in her twenties who owns a flight school on the East End of Long Island. • Several of the women we have spoken with were from diverse cultures to help balance our presentation and encourage ALL women to consider aviation. Our goal is to preview the piece on Long Island on December 17, 2003 and to get it on PBS for March, Women’s History Month. Yes, it’s ambitious, but definitely possible. We still need your HOME VIDEOS , but they need to get to me before Nov.15. Also anyone who wants to tape a “shout out” - that’s a short video of you near your plane so we can see most of the plane and you SHOUT “ I’m (name) from (place) and I fly this (name of plane)” Thanks again for your information and involvement. KEEP THOSE LEADS COMING! Pass the word along to your friends about our work and stay in touch. We love hearing your news, too. Fair Skies to All, Mary Scott and Abby Dress Co-Producers of “Wings of Their Own”