“To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!” ― Susan Lendroth David and I have sent an annual Christmas letter to friends and family annually since we married. We compiled a comprehensive list of family and friends for wedding invitations and announcements. This growing list has been maintained these 42 years, but a few years […]
Why Bother With A Girls In Aviation Day?
Flying is the best possible thing for women. — Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of France, first licensed woman pilot, regards receiving her license, 8 March 1910. I participate in a closed Facebook group called The Landline. It is a forum for pilots and controllers to interact over questions about anything pilot-controller aviation system related. Recently a […]
Why Make Time For Family? The Masters Of Storytelling
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! – Albert Einstein This time last year I re-posted content with stories centering on my maternal grandfather’s branch of the family tree. Then I realized that during that same time frame, I had actually been in contact with parts of my grandfather’s side of the family from […]
If You Are In Kansas Then You Can Be An Aviator
This was my second year as an exhibitor at Kansas Aviation Day. I and a fellow Advocate Wing member participated on the behalf of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) to showcase yet another way Kansas Aviation is employed. Since a majority of MAF’s fleet of almost 50 aircraft based in 17 countries are Cessna Aircraft from […]
Nancy Hancock-Cullen – My Bio
I am Nancy Hancock-Cullen, a retired Federal Aviation Air traffic controller, current private pilot and married 42 years to a wonderful guy. We live in a 130 year old Victorian house; enjoy cats, vintage and classic anything and our precious friends scattered around the globe. In addition to flying and maintaining the airplane I inherited […]
Home Coming And Reverse Culture Shock
“Blessed will you be when you come in (home), and blessed will you be when you go out..” Deut 28:6 Recently during my morning quiet time, I was reading through some BLOGs and articles, from a particular ministry we are connected with. Suddenly, I found myself in tears. The series I was reading came from […]
Cessna Aircraft And Showing Love For The Isolated
“That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.” Deut 11: 21 Recently I was privileged to be part of a delegation who converged at the Textron Customer Delivery Center in Independence, KS […]
Making Time For Family – Stories Then and Now
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! – Albert Einstein For the past few weeks I have re-posted content with stories centering on my maternal grandfather’s branch of the family tree. Then I realized that during this time, I had actually been in contact with parts of my grandfather’s side of the family from […]
Tora 101 – The Last Flight – Tora! Tora! Tora!
Living in Wichita, Kansas, the Air Capitol of the World, I am privileged to know many aviators. Men and women who influence the world, without necessarily being well-known. I attended the memorial service of one of those special people recently, the pilot of Tora 101. I met Douglas Roy Jackson during the restoration of […]