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Up, up and away: Women pilots share love of flying

By Katherine Mace CONTRIBUTOR

Across nearly a half century, four women joined in an incredible saga that starts with a love for a particular red and white topwinged Cessna 172, N80619, affectionately called ’619.

Kay Blevins and Laura Hartley are Sun City residents, mother and daughter, and teammates who flew ’619 in the 1976 Powder Puff Derby, a women’s air race.

On June 15, 2022, an excited crowd gathered to watch the ’619 land at the Ridgeland Airport with another racing team, nicknamed Kay’s Angels, piloted by Melissa Shrewsbury and Lauren Heisey, both of Pennsylvania.

They had stopped to meet Blevins and Hartley on their way to Lakeland, Florida, to compete in Air Race Classic 2022, the new name of the race.

Joyful and fearless, Blevins spent her life ignoring preconceptions for women. In 1954 she joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in Detroit, Michigan. “I dreamed of flying.

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The pilots of ’619 meet at Ridgeland Airport June 15. From left are Kay Blevins, her daughter and co-pilot Laura Hartley, current pilot Melissa Shrewsbury and co-pilot Lauren Heisey.

No one in my family had ever flown. They thought I was crazy,” she said. “I’d gone thru the CAP application process and was waiting to be interviewed. A female CAP colonel stood with me, keeping me calm. I asked her ‘What is the most exciting thing

you’ve ever done?’”

The colonel answered immediately: “I flew in the Powder Puff Derby.” With that comment, Blevins’ purpose was set.

The Powder Puff Derby began in 1929 as the National Women’s Air Derby. Amelia

Earhart placed third in the inaugural race.

The race came to be known as the Powder Puff Derby, nicknamed by Will Rogers when he saw a pilot powdering her nose just before she climbed into her plane.

Blevins met husband Paul in the CAP, and both became pilots.

Their daughter Laura was equally determined. In 1974, Hartley became the first woman to complete the aviation program at Western Michigan.

“They wanted me to wash out – in fact the professor said that to the class,” Hartley said. “The final exam had hands-on stations.

We had to problem-solve on all kinds of aircraft. I finished (successfully) long before anyone else.”

Hartley was prohibited from graduating out of the Aviation Department, so the Industrial Engineering Department sponsored her aviation major. Hartley excelled and became a licensed commercial pilot with instrument and multi-engine ratings.

In late 1975, Blevins found out that the

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Kay Blevins and Laura Hartley speak with students of Ridgeland’s Polaris Tech charter school about the joys and adventures of flying an airplane.

last Powder Puff Derby would be flown in 1976. Her tenacious refusal to take “no” for an answer was activated. She had to become a commercial pilot to enter, which meant taking written and flying tests.

“On test day I went up in a brand-new airplane, ’619, with an FAA tester. On that day, I could do no wrong,” she recalled.

“I executed maneuvers that were almost unbelievable. When I landed, I put one dollar down to buy ’619. I had my license, a plane, my daughter as navigator, but then our number had to be drawn. Two-hundred planes could participate in the Bicentennial Powder Puff Derby. We were drawn No. 112!”

Blevins explained that in races, there is incredible excitement.

“We flew along the tree line to cut down on headwind resistance. Once, we flew under a crop duster! When you fly in a race, you don’t carry anything with you.

You wash out your undies at night and get up early to take off at sunrise,” she said.

“We would fly full speed in a dive, and then scream across the timeline. One plane can cross the line at once, so there are always skirmishes. The difference between first and second place in a race can be 1/100th of a second.”

Blevins and Hartley completed the entire 2916-mile race.

Later, Blevins would write a book, “Sound of Adventure,” about her love of flying, and of ’619 in particular. The book was published in 2013, and is still available at amazon.com.

Last month, when ’619 came into view at the Ridgeland Airport, the excitement was palpable. The plane did a low fly-by and dipped her wings in greeting, then came around to land. “She’s a pretty bird,” whispered Blevins.

The pilots climbed out, and Shrewsbury and Blevins embraced. It was clear that they share a love for flying and for ’619.

The fun was amplified when 40 students from the nearby Polaris Tech charter school walked down the taxiway to greet the pilots.

The school was founded by General Lloyd “Fig” Newton, and is a non-traditional school in Ridgeland, developed for students to learn technical skills.

Hunafa Armstrong, a teacher at the school wore a shirt that proclaimed “ACTUALLY, IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE.” “My background is in aeronautical science and engineering,” Armstrong said. “As a teacher here, I’m following my dream.”

As she fielded questions from the students, Blevins’ eyes glistened. She knew she represented spectacular possibilities. “You never know what’s going to light the fire,” she said.

The magic continued the next morning when Shrewsbury took the Blevins family up for a ride in ’619 prior to leaving for the race.

In a postscript to this remarkable day, ’619 and Kay’s Angels placed 4th in the Air Race Classic, out of 32 teams.

Katherine Mace is a writer who lives in Sun City.

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Single-use plastics cause long-lasting, unhealthful problems

By David W. Smith CONTRIBUTOR

Plastic has been with us in some form since the early 1800s. By the 1930s, Dupont Chemicals was promoting plastics as “magical.” A popular advertising slogan of the 1960s was “Better things for better living through chemistry.”

Plastics are a product of human innovation produced with byproducts of the oil industry, combined with a vast array of chemicals. Plastics are lightweight, durable, decay resistant, inexpensive, and moldable.

Undoubtedly our society has benefitted greatly from many plastic products.

Unfortunately, this innovation comes at a price. Its durability and decay resistance cause it to remain in our environment for a very long time. The exact length of time is uncertain, but many projections suggest centuries.

It is believed that every plastic product ever created still exists in some

form in our environment, some of it in our food sources.

The highest toll comes from single-use items, primarily packaging for all manner of products, from toys to

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Plastic shopping bags are the most visibly offensive, as their light weight allows them to be wind-blown into landscapes. Internet shopping generates the use of an enormous quantity of single use products including plastic tapes, labeling and packing.

The biggest source of single use plastic is the food and beverage industry.

Try to think of an item in your favorite grocery store that isn’t packaged in plastic. It isn’t easy to do.

The cereal, cookies, crackers, and baking mixes that are displayed in cardboard boxes have plastic liners.

Most fruits and vegetable are offered in plastic bags. Each piece of bulk produce has its own plastic ID label or tag.

Many glass bottles and jars have plastic lids. Even the ones with metal lids have an inner or outer plastic seal, maybe both. A six-pack of aluminum cans is

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No big deal, he said … but then again, yes, it was

By Chris Roosa CONTRIBUTOR

We are getting too old to travel. I hadn’t been anywhere for five years. But that all ended recently.

My darling husband finally resigned himself to purchasing a new mattress.

The last one was acquired in 1986 and it took some doing to convince him to give it up. It was kind of like a toddler with a pacifier.

The bigger problem occurred when we had to disposed of the old mattress.

At first, when my husband asked for my help, I said “No.” My gut feeling told me this was not a bright idea, for an 84- and 80-year-old couple to take on this challenge.

So I suggested Staying Connected, as we are members and had never used it. No, he didn’t think they would do something like that.

My second recommendation was to inquire of the 55-year-old neighbor,

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two doors down, and his 24-year-old son – perhaps they could assist. But hubby felt too embarrassed to ask for the help.

Old people are very proud fools, you understand.

This was going to be no big deal, said my groom of 58 years. So, after wrangling with the mattress, he put his end on a dolly – and I backed out of the house.

That was a huge mis-step.

The dolly kept jamming in the doorway and, after four attempts, I was annoyed and lost my concentration. He heaved, one last

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Now I get to the fun part, the vacation time. Five broken ribs, two pelvic fractures, a dislocated wrist, a break and one surgery later, this little missus is now lounging in (painful) bliss at the Encompass RESORT Rehab Center.

What more could a girl want? Three delicious meals a day, compliments to the chef. Two showers a week while perched on a bench with nurses teaching me the basics of Bathing 101 all over again.

And, of course, the wonderful physical therapy staff to fawn all over my broken body while they painfully show me how to get into a bed, and how to build up enough strength to hoist my oversized body of lard from one exercise to the next in order to become a functioning human being again.

I hope I will learn to walk when the pain is not so intense in the pelvic. Of course, all the broken bones are down my left side, so it’s been a real challenge at my new resort home.

No big deal! Not for him! They have me lifting weights daily. I’m going to muscle up my right arm enough so that upon arriving back to Sun City, I’m going to knock HIM to the moon and back so he, too, can spend quality time at this “resort.”

After all, I don’t want to hog all the luxury! I want him to enjoy some down time too.

Chris Roosa is a resident of Sun City Hilton Head.

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connected with plastic.

The beverage industry’s heavily televised “Every bottle back” campaign is more lip-service than reality. They want us to continue to buy their product guilt-free while the petro-chemical industry wants to keep producing plastic bottles.

As electric vehicles become increasingly popular and the demand for gasoline drops, the oil companies will want to push out even more plastic.

The reality is that less than 10% of plastic gets recycled and most that does can only be recycled once. Some ends up in landfills or being incinerated – neither option is healthful. Many of the chemicals used in making plastic are toxic and may escape into the air we breathe during incineration or leach into groundwater after years in a landfill.

Much of plastic waste is intentionally dumped or wind-blown into waterways and ends up in our oceans. Over time, these plastics break down into tiny microplastics which are ingested by fish,

turtles, and other aquatic animals.

Studies have found these microplastics in fish tissue and it is believed that virtually all fish contain plastic. Those who eat fish are thought to have plastic in their tissue as well.

There are estimates that by 2050, the weight of the plastic in the oceans will be greater than the weight of the fish.

We are likely ingesting microplastics from the air and water as well.

Mankind’s best defense against being buried in plastic waste is to reduce consumption of products packaged in plastic. Using reusable shopping bags, water bottles, and travel mugs will help. Wearing clothing made of natural fibers and recycling them when you are done with them also helps.

For more information and additional suggestions from Sun City’s EAG 4Rs Team, email environmentalactiongroupschh@gmail.com.

David W. Smith is a member of the Environmental Action Group of Sun City Hilton Head.

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Shared love of plane, flying Kay Blevins and her daughter, Laura Hartley, met the new pilot and co-pilot of the Cessna airplane Blevins once owned. Melissa Shrewsbury and Lauren Heisey flew the ’619 in this year’s Air Race Classic and placed fourth. Blevins and Hartley also shared their experiences with students from Ridgeland’s Polaris Tech school. See full story on page 6.

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