Badass Pilot Babes Podcast
A fly aviation podcast rocking women who fly. Introducing Badass Pilot Babes from around the world talking about flying for fun and flying as the coolest job ever. The sky is our playground and you're going to *love* the view from up here.
Episodes
The Suells are a flying family and the sisters are third-generation aviators.
Their dad Tommy is a pilot, their grandfather was a pilot, Tambi is *almost* a pilot.
The sisters have been flying airplanes in Dad's lap since they were infants and started flying aerobatics in Tommy's Christen Eagle between the ages of 2 and 4.
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It all started with earning my private pilot's license a decade ago. Facing my fears of stalls and spins led me to flying competition aerobatics for the next eight years.
Now a vetted and competent pilot, people didn’t know I almost quit part way through flight training. I had *almost* convinced myself that I didn’t have the talent to learn how to fly.
Obviously...
She earned her private pilot certificate, bought a Cessna 172, (that she describes as “The Toyota Camry of the Skies”) and bought a home and hangar in an airpark community.
Based in CA, Susie and her airplane have flown to almost every state west of the Mississippi and a few east of there.
Her love of flying and traveling, coupled wi...
Wayne turns his attention to badass pilot babes Melissa Burns, Vicky Benzing, and Sarah Dallaire.
A little preview:
Melissa Burns – Aerobatic badass, Air Racer World Championship racer in training, skydiver, base jumper, rock climber, Alaskan bush pilot, mom of two insanely adorable kids.
Vicky Benzing – Flies just about anything with (and w...
His 65-year career has spanned naval aviation, crop dusting, and he’s an aerobatic
champion and legendary airshow performer.
For decades, he dazzled airshow fans flying a in a Pitts biplane, the Raven
monoplane and the Oracle Turbo Raven, the first airshow airplane with a positive
thrust-to-weight ratio.
Now retired from airshows, people flock from arou...
Colleen Keller Sterling is a -
Physicist
Pilot
Reno Air racer
A & P aircraft mechanic
Missing aircraft search expert
Some backstory:
After graduating with her master’s degree in physics, Colleen found herself working on an aircraft carrier as an operations research analyst for the US Navy.
The exciting Top Gun atmosphere got her fired up about flying.
*cue Da...
For the last 12 years, Jan has been having more fun than should legally be possible flying all over the country to airshows, air races, fly-ins, and is nuts for warbirds.
Since 2017, she has been the number 10 caretaker and o...
Before recently retiring, she captained Boeing 767s and has logged more than 10,000 hours of heavy jet flight time and was one of the first women qualified in 747s.
Reyne recently launched a book – “This is Your Captain Speaking, What You Should Know About Your Pilot’s Mental Health” that was released on September 21, 2021.
A...
Her father, a pilot for the Columbian airline Avianca, encouraged her to pursue aviation, but also to have a Plan B career plan.
Carolina earned her private pilot certificate while simultaneously studying for a mechanical engineering degree.
Although she loved engineering, during an internship she realized she had to follow her pass...
Kat is one of those freakishly accomplished individuals who brings incredible talent and energy to everything she touches.
After college, she landed a job in the aviation industry and requested a private pilot license as a condition of hire. When she saw a Pitts aerobatic biplane at the airport during a lesson, she was smitten.
She has flown...
Saying “why not?” instead of “why me?” helped her land a unicorn corporate pilot
gig, buy an airplane, and recently fly her first aerobatic contest.
Julia’s passion for aviation began at a young age when her dad took her the world’s
biggest aviation celebration, EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Once she discovered she could make flying her life, she never looked...
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