“She just seemed willing to learn, and has never had fear of being in the air.” Where it has been a proven fact that parents rarely can teach their offsprings the art of driving a car, let alone piloting a plane, Judy’s father said that he has never lost patience during instruction periods. To make it even more remarkable, she did it the hard way, taking off over a snow packed runway on skis for the first time, and landing the craft as “lightly as a feather.”Īdding to the ability of the Washington township girl to take instruction aptly, is the surprising fact that her “teacher” has been her father, Claude. Judy Lindberg, 17-year-old, Washington Township High school senior, is an apt pupil.Ī week ago, after 45 minutes of instruction in a dual control plane in which she had never before riffen, Judy took off and did a solo over the Porter County Municipal airport “for 15 minutes”, the first time any girl has done this feat at the county field. Washington Township Girl Apt Pupil In Air Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on February 18, 1956.
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