In her 1905 book Bright Ideas for Entertaining, author Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott offers up “Measuring Parties” as a way to encourage people to give to a charitable cause. Community Bible Church in Central City, Nebraska thought this would be a fun way to help raise money and awareness for MAF – and they were […]
There are often two sides to a situation. A strength and a weakness. A positive and a negative. So I have found it to be with house workers.
Growing up in a household of four girls, in a time and place where servants were unheard of, as well as dishwashers and dryers, we all learned the […]
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At cruise power, a Cessna 206 engine piston races the length of its cylinder 75 times a second. An hour’s flight slams it through 276 thousand cycles, each stroke pealing a few atoms off […]
Flying in remote places like the rain forests of Ecuador present pilots with plenty of challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the weather, and the swift way it changes. Navigating through poor weather is never easy.
One day I was flying with the president of the Ecuadorian Evangelical Missionary Association (AMEE). We had been […]
As the wife of an MAF pilot, I often get asked the question “What do you do all day?”
Here’s a typical day…
4:30 a.m. – The morning call to prayer sounds from several Mosques around our neighborhood, waking me up.
6:00 a.m. – Get up, make breakfast, and pack Chris’s lunch.
7:00 a.m. – Say “good-bye” […]
I know firsthand how the layers of maintenance and checks by technicians, mechanics and pilots lead to a safe environment for flying.
One morning while I was diligently going through my pre-flight inspection, I noticed that the oil dipstick appeared to have an excessive amount of oil on it. Realizing that this level of oil was […]