What is your earliest flying memory?
We learned on the sand dunes in Mexico. I’ll never forget the first time my feet left the ground. For the rest of my life, I’ve felt free of gravity.
How and when did you get into flying?
I was a skydiver at Elsinore, CA with my husband at the time, Bob Skinner. Bob had been competing and needed a break. A friend of ours, Ted Webster, took us for a sample flight on a hang glider – we were hooked. And we liked the idea of not having to pay for the plane ride. It was the very beginning of the sport, 1972. Bob quit his job and we started Flight Realities in San Diego, the first hang gliding school in the world that we knew of.
Can you tell us about a really special moment you’ve had in flying?
Flying into Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point. My father had just died and Bob took me to Yosemite to ‘heal’. So there I was, high above the valley on a beautiful morning, with...
