[ABOVE LEFT] Joan Mace, AA ’73, BGS ’78, EMERT ’93, pictured in the foreground in 1969 with an unidentified woman, spent hours practicing her piloting skills before landing a job in 1946 as an instructor at OHIO’s airport. She would later become the first woman to chair the Russ College of Engineering and Technology’s Aviation Department.
[ABOVE CENTER] Students also were getting into the in-flight act in 1969. Flying Bobcat Alexis Piaget, the grinning pilot at the wheel, eagerly anticipates takeoff as Robert Crows, BBA ’69, gears up to give the propeller a mighty turn and Terry Timmester, BSJ ’69, removes the wheel blocks.
[ABOVE RIGHT] Other Flying Bobcats wisely parked a prop plane near the old Baker University Center (now home to Scripps College of Communication) and offered rides for a “penny-a-pound.”
Photos courtesy of the Mahn Archives & Special Collections