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25 Sep 2025
“When Linda Sollars, WAI 372, was in high school in the 1980s, she told the career counselor that she wanted to be a professional pilot. “The high school counselor told me I couldn’t do that because I was a girl,” Linda remembers, who today is an Airbus A320 captain for a major airline.
The information wasn’t correct, Linda says, because in 1973 Bonnie Tiburzi, WAI 18, became the first woman to fly for a U.S. airline and that same year, the United States Navy allowed women to train as pilots.
Instead of a career in flying, Linda went to college for a career in finance. It was practical, she notes, and when you have a practical career, there are jobs that pay you well enough to survive and do what you want to do on the side. Then one day, fate intervened.”
-Meg Godlewski (Aviation For Women)
In October 2025, Sling turned 20. October 2005, Mike Blyth first began drawing pictures of the ideal LSA to meet the new ASTM 2245 LSA standard.
Watch “Still Slinging after 20 Years” for a whistle stop tour of the last 20 years of the business, James and Mike’s adventures along the way, and a look at what’s to come.
The latest Lloyd Ross film, now available on the Wild Landings channel!