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A semi-monthly newsletter just for the future Girls With Wings! It's filled
with great pictures and stories about women in aviation, weather, space

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Put your GWW's birthday in to get a special wish from Penelope!
Says dad Keith, "When Madeleine got hers before she couldn't read, I just
printed it out for her. There's a nice picture and stuff that she liked so she
hung it up in her room too!"

Top News from
Aero-News.net, Mon, 27
Mar '06
Women in Aviation
International Conference:
Girls With Wings
By ANN Correspondent
Aleta Vinas

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from the

Mission Statement:"The Foundation shall promote and support the advancement of
personal air transportation by seeking and funding the most promising individuals and
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Below is an article printed
in "The Daily" which is
published for each day of
The Women in Aviation
Conference.

And/ or the usual Girls With Wings edition (sign up for the eZine...)

Current Issue:
D ec 11

See this page for previous issues.

Lakewood's Lynda Meeks
and Her 'Girls With Wings'
Helping Young Dreams
Come True!
Story by Sarah Valek
Click to Read

On the Side, by Linda
Becker in Women in
Aviation Magazine

We use aviation to entertain and educate girls
about their limitless opportunities for personal growth.

Lynda Meeks elected "Pilot
of the Year" by her local
chapter of the 99s.

Blog Entry at
www.savvimama.com, a
site for single mothers

Girls With Wings in
The Pylon Place

Lakewood Sun Post May 2008

Learn a little 'bout life on the
road as a pilot!

AOPA Online: Penelope
Pilot encourages girls to
take to the sky

to take their dreams to
the skies News Article

Arty is written up in Aero
Connection Magazine

See Lynda Meeks,
Founder of GWW,
interviewed on Aero
TV News Network
during the Women in
Aviation Conference.

Girls With Wings: General
Aviation's Secret to Growth

Venus and Mars: GWW's Meeks on Gender
Differences on the Flight Deck

from the author, Av8rdan:
"Just thought I should thank
you for providing the material
that gave my blog the largest
boost of traffic in months...
almost twice the # of unique
think this validates (in a very
small way) what you are doing
with GWW since it appears so
many people want to read
what you have to say."

Girls With Wings interview at the
AOPA Summit 09 in Tampa, FL.
YouTube will open in new window.

Guest Blog Post on The
World of Flying Blog:
This Girl With Wings Really
Knows How to Ramp up
the Excitement About
Flying!

Lynda Meeks in EAAs Timeless
Voices of Aviation, a major video
history project of the EAA
AirVenture Museum, is to assure
that the first person oral
histories of aviation’s
development are preserved for
future generations of family
members, teachers, students,
historians and others. Timeless
Voices of Aviation website.

Lynda is selected to
attend Acrocamp! See
press release here.

Interview on Plastic Pilot
Part 1 Part 2

EAA Radio Interview 2010

Stretch your wings:
Aviation organization
inspires girls to develop
flight plans for the future
8/11/2010 By Mary Kenkel
The Post-Bulletin,
Rochester MN

What If Little Girls
Played With Airplanes?
Furloughed Pilot Helps
Young Girls File Flight
Plans For Aviation
Careers By Deborah
Grigsby 8/2/10

FlightTime Radio Show
Meeks was with us to tell
us first, about her
organization, Girls with
Wings! It is a non-profit
group that specifically
address young ladies to
reveal that , YES, they
explained how she got
filled us in about her
latest adventure, Acro
Camp!

08/27/10:My
Skymom's Article
“Girls Need Flight
Plans, Not Fairy Tales.”
An Interview With
Lynda Meeks, Founder
of Girls With Wings