May 27, 2013: Genevieve Landman Rausch “Teeny”

Once Teeny got her W.A.S.P. wings at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Tx, she was stationed at Moore AAFB, Alamogordo AAFB, and Kingman, AZ, AAFB. She flew the PT17, BT13, AT6, UC-78 (Bamboo Bomber-Twin Trainer), B26 and it’s variants, Stinson L5 and then a month of flying the B17 as second pilot and then 1st Pilot. She towed aerial targets for gunnery practice and flew the heavy’s to train navigators and bombardiers. Once the WASPs were unceremoniously sent home, she went to NYC and was the first or one of the first female aviation writer-editors. She would write articles for the magazine called Flyways in which she flew and then evaluated the new crop of light GA aircraft. It lasted for a few years after the war and was the precursor for magazines like Flying, Plane & Pilot..etc.