Airshow, September 21, Marin Airport in Novato

Wings Over Marin -
September 21, 2013

Meet Marin’s flying community and celebrate women in
aviation at the Wings Over Marin Air Show Saturday, September 21, 10 a.m.- 4
p.m. This family friendly event will take place at the Marin County Airport
(Gnoss Field) in Novato, home to 295 aircraft, from bi-planes to private jets.
Wings Over Marin will feature plenty of family activities, including fly-bys of
historic and modern airplanes, over 50 vintage cars, displays of emergency
equipment from the Marin Sheriff and Fire departments, and burgers and hot dogs
fresh from our grill (cash only). In addition, children ages 8-18 can enter a
free raffle for a chance to win a 20-minute flight with a female pilot. These
flights are sponsored by local EAA chapter's Young
Eagles program.

Celebrating Women
in Aviation

This year’s event celebrates women in aviation. Wings
Over Marin will feature a seminar with female pilots from major airlines,
Federal Express and the U.S. Air Force. In addition, representatives from
aviation law and the Federal Aviation Administration will attend the event to
speak about aviation careers.

Wings Over Marin is designed to inspire the next
generation of aviators, and set the stage for a mentoring relationship for
girls and boys interested in aviation.

Student Aviation
Scholarships

Two $1,250 aviation scholarships will be awarded to students
interested in aviation career paths. Applications are available at the
information booth. More information below.

Event Details

Tickets for Adults are $10, Youth $5 (kids under 9 years
of age are free). Click to buy
tickets

Please do not drive to the airport. Free parking and
shuttle services are located at Novato's Fireman's Fund (777 San Marin Drive,
Novato, CA).

Click here for directions.

Buses will shuttle from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Ride to airport is
5 minutes.

Marin County Airport (since 1973) is owned and operated
by Marin Public Works Department, and mandated by title grants from the Federal
Aviation Administration. Gnoss Field Community Association, now in its 5th
year, is hosting Wings Over Marin. For more information, please visit us at gnossfield.org.

Sponsors

Schedule of Events

10:00 (First bus at 9:45 from Fireman’s Fund parking lot)

10:45 Young Eagles - Kids Flights #1 and Raffle for
Flight #2

11:00-11:30 Fly Over Series #1

11:30-11:40 Young Eagles - Kids Flights #2 and Raffle for
Flight #3

11:45-12:15 Speaker #1: Nancy Lemmon, Fed Express Pilot

12:15-12:30 Young Eagles – Kids Flights #3 and Raffle for
Flight #4

12:30-1:00 Fly Over Series #2

1:00-1:15 Young Eagles Kids Flight #4; Flight #5 raffle;
General Raffle #1

1:00-1:15 Award of Recognition: Joyce Wells

1:15-2:00 Speaker #2: Dr. Yvonne Cagle, Astronaut

(introduced by Marin County District #5 Supervisor Judy Arnold)

2:00-2:30 Fly Over Series #3

2:30-2:45 Young Eagles Kids Flight #5; General Raffle #2

2:45-3:30 Seminar – Career opportunities in Aviation

(Kristin Winter, Mollie Davis, Deborah Ale Flint, Allie Metcalf)

3:30 General Raffle #3

3:30-4:00 Fly Over Series #4

4:00-5:00 Raffle #4; Show over – 1 Hr. Crowd Departure

Speaker
Biographies

Dr. Yvonne Cagle
(Astronaut):

Dr. Yvonne Cagle is a NASA Astronaut and Family
Physician. Dr. Cagle was born in West Point, New York, but considers Novato to
be her hometown (she is a Novato High School graduate). She spent her college
years at San Francisco State University, receiving a bachelor degree there in
Biochemistry. She earned a doctorate in medicine from the University of
Washington in 1985. Yvonne received her certificate of Aerospace Medicine from
the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. Shen then
completed her residency in family practice and Ghent FP at Eastern Virginia
Medical School in 1992.

In 2008, Dr. Cagle retired as a Colonel in the USAF where
she served as a Senior Flight Surgeon prior to her selection to the NASA
Astronaut Corp in 1996. In 2005, Dr. Cagle was assigned to the NASA/ARC as the
lead ARC Astronaut Science Liaison and Strategic Relationships Manager for
Google and other Silicon Valley Programmatic Partnerships. Dr. Cagle's
groundbreaking work is preserving historic NASA space legacy data while, simultaneously,
galvanizing NASA's lead in global mapping, sustainable energies, green
initiatives, and disaster preparedness. Dr. Cagle is advisor for the Commercial
Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR). Currently Dr. Cagle is on faculty
and serves as the NASA liaison for exploration and space exponential
technologies with Singularity University.

Currently, Yvonne Cagle is an advisor for NASA’s flight
opportunities program. She’s also on NASA’s staff facility for exploration and
space development. At the moment she’s involved with a research team based in
Hawaii to determine how to keep astronauts well-nourished during their long
trips to outer-space.

Watch Dr. Cagle's TED talk

Allie Metcalf (Air
Traffic Controller):

Allie had her first airplane ride at 11 years of age on a
flight from Lake Havasu to Las Vegas. That started her love affair with
airplanes. Her father was also a pilot and flew P3's in Vietnam.

But she was held back from pursuing her flying career
thinking that she couldn't do it. What motivated her to pursue her career
further was her sister's career path as an air traffic controller. Over the
years, she bounced around in some odd jobs and then joined the Navy where she
too, became an air traffic controller. It wasn't long after this that she
started making aviation friends who would give her rides in their airplanes.
From there it was on to learning how to fly herself. She got her private
license in 1993.

One of the most memorable experiences of her flying
career was her ATP ride in a 1963 Piper Apache during which the fuel wasn’t
properly checked. As a result, they lost an engine and made a single engine
approach - for those of you who have never flown Apaches, the approach was
barely controlled on one engine! They managed to land at an airport where they
ran out of gas shortly after touchdown.

Allie loves the demands of the aviation industry as well
as the many ways one is able to participate and contribute to flying.
Eventually she would like to work with the NTSB, preferring to work on the
prevention side of the agency rather than in accident investigation.

Her present job is as an FAA analyst where she compiles,
analyzes, and makes meaning from the data that she collects which she then
sends to upper management in the FAA district office. This data affects
everyone in the aviation industry.

She feels like air traffic control is a great career
choice for women; the money and working conditions are good, the work offers
women pride, and the retirement is good. However, she isn't flying at present.

Deborah Ale Flint
(Director - Oakland Airport):

Deborah Ale Flint was appointed as the Acting Executive
Director of the Port of Oakland by the Board of Port Commissioners on October
18, 2012.

Ms. Flint develops and executes the strategic Plan of the
Port and guides its economic, business development, and operations initiatives.
From 2010 to October 2012 Ale Flint served as Aviation Director, and was the
primary executive for the operation, management and business development of
Oakland International Airport. Prior to her role as Director of Aviation, Ms.
Ale Flint was the Assistant Aviation Director at the airport.

Ale Flint was appointed by the United States Secretary of
Transportation to represent all U.S. Airports on the Aviation Consumer
Protection Committee in May 2012. Ms. Ale Flint holds a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Business from San Jose State University. She serves on the Board of
Directors of Airports Council International North America, as well as Board of
Directors of Inner City Advisors; and is a selected panelist on the
Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program; is a
member of the Northern California District Export Council; as well as the
California Airports Council.

She was formerly the Manager of Airside Operations at
Oakland, where she was responsible for overseeing Airside Operations, Noise
Abatement and Environmental Compliance, Communications, and the Airport
Operations Center.

A proud Oakland resident, Deborah is dedicated to leading
The Port of Oakland through a critical and transformative era, demonstrating
transparency and accountability; and forging a path for more vibrant business
development and positive engagement with Port employees and stakeholders.

Kristin Winter
(Aviation Attorney, A&P, Air Transport Pilot):

Kristin first started flying in 1979 as a junior in a
college in Minnesota. After attempting to obtain a computer science degree, she
dropped out of school and met a man who introduced her to aviation. She
immediately fell in love with flying. She soon decided to pursue flying as a
career. After leaving school, she got her commercial, instrument, and CFI
ratings.

After a stint of flight instructing in Alaska, she
returned to college, but this time it was at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Florida. There she completed Riddle's Airframe & Powerplant
course and became a licensed A&P instructor. In 1984, while at Embry
Riddle, she received her multi engine and multi engine instructor ratings.

Afterward, she taught flying and helped maintain a small
fleet of Piper trainer aircraft. She also flew night cargo and charter flights.
It was during this time that she was building flight hours by flying cancelled
checks throughout the Midwest. She received her Airline Transport Pilot rating
in 1985. After flying in the Midwest for a number of years she helped set up a
flight charter operation on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She became
Director of Operations at the charter company where she obtained her FAA
Inspection Authorization and subsequently became the chief inspector.

In 1991, she lost her job. She then headed out to
California and landed a job at IASCO in Napa, California, teaching Japanese
students how to fly. After five plus years teaching at JAL and realizing her
dream of flying for the airlines wasn’t going to happen, she decided to pursue
a legal education and went to law school.

For the last eleven years she has been practicing
aviation law and flying her own personal airplane, Maggie, a 1969 Piper
Comanche, for business.

Molly
Davis-Atkinson (Commercial Pilot - Virgin America):

Molly was born in Marin and spent the majority of her
childhood in Novato. From an early age she was exposed to aviation. Her
grandfather, father and uncle were all pilots for United Airlines.

Her whole life has been spent around airplanes; however
she was never interested in flying until she graduated from college. She
attended Michigan State University where she graduated with a degree in
environmental science. She soon began work as an environmental scientist in
Chicago, IL. After a year or so she realized that this was not what she wanted
to do. She decided she was going to become an Airline Pilot.

Her parents, was very excited about her choice to become
a pilot. Molly decided to go to a local flight school in Chicago to start
flight training.

After a few flights she was “hooked.” After a year of
flight lessons, she earned her Private Pilots License. She then attended a more
advanced flight school by the name of ATP. After 90 days at ATP she was a fully
qualified commercial pilot as well as a flight instructor.

Her first flying job was flight instructing at West
Valley Flying Club in Palo Alto, California. After 18 months she was able to
get a job offer from ExpressJet Airlines in Houston, Texas. She was hired by
ExpressJet as a First Officer and upgraded to Captain after 2 years. She spent
almost seven and a half years at ExpressJet flying the Embraer 145 Regional
Jet.

In January of 2012 she was hired by Virgin America as an
Airbus A-320 First Officer and is currently based in San Francisco where she
mainly flies east coast flights.

Nancy Lemmon
(Commercial Pilot - Federal Express, Asia):

Nancy has had quite a colorful flying career. She flew
for Southern Air Transport (SAT) out of Africa and for FedEx out of Asia. She
was born at Mather Air Force Base. Just a few of the places she has lived are:
Plattsburg, NY, Anderson AFB, Guam, and in Springfield, MA (where her dad
retired from the Air Force). In 1964 she returned to Rancho Cordova, just
outside Mather AFB, east of Sacramento. Nancy's first flight training was in
Cessna 150, 152 and 172s at Spangdahlem Air Force Base, Germany. On returning
to California she kept up her instruction at Phoenix Field in Fair Oaks. Her
quest to build hours led her to fly more complex Cessnas such as the 421 and
402.

In 1982, she finished her Bachelor of Arts degree in
Humanities at Cal State University in Sacramento. She then moved to Marin
County and continued flying at Gnoss Field, commuting to Sacramento Executive
airport to finish her Commercial and Instrument rating. During the time when
she was building her flight hours, she worked as a legal secretary in both
Marin County and San Francisco to finance her flying lessons. She flew
corporate for a local businessman in his Cessna 337 until she was hired by a
commuter airline and moved to Fresno, CA.

She moved back to Marin County and got hired by Martin
Aviation in Orange County to fly a freight feeder route between SFO-SAC
(Sacramento Executive) in a Britten-Norman TrIslander (the BN-3 was a 3-eng.
She then finally started to make some good money.

She went to work for Southern Air Transport in 1987,
where she was the fourth woman they had ever hired. From there she went to TWA
briefly in 1988, then returned to Southern Air Transport later the same year.
She flew military contracts all over the U.S. and began flying famine relief
missions in East Africa. While in Africa, she flew for the diamond mines in
Angola.

As Nancy says, “I got blown up by taxiing over an
anti-tank mine in Wau, Sudan, September 9, 1991.” She was off work for two
years, getting put back together. She then returned to work at Southern Air
Transport on 9/1/93. She found out that Southern Air Transport had knowledge
the airstrip was mined before they sent her in there.

In Aug. 1994, she was hired by FedEx. She was transferred
to Subic Bay, Philippines in August, 1995, when Fed Ex opened its first Asian
domicile.

There was a lawsuit against Southern Air Transport for
the landmine incident and was settled in October, 2002. She then bought
"Casa KaBoom" in Novato the next month. She was the first person to
collect anything in a lawsuit from the time that Southern Air Transport was
founded in 1946 to the settlement of her lawsuit. After everybody told her
she'd never see a dime, this was hugely satisfying.

She transferred to Hong Kong in 2009 when FedEx Asian
operations moved from the Philippines to Guangzhou, China.

Vintage Car
Display

A vintage car display including fifteen to twenty cars
will be on display at the air show courtesy of Marin Coupe Roadster Club.

Marin Coupe and Roadsters was organized circa 1952 and,
as you can imagine, the organization has gone through many changes in
membership. Presently we have around 18-20 active members with cars ranging
from high end restorations and customs to vehicles that recall the period
modifications of the early '50's and '60's. Vehicles range from early l934-36
Fords (coupes, sedans and roadsters) to l950-60 Chevrolets and 1960-1980 Ford
Mustangs and Chevrolet Novas, Chevelles, and Trucks.