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Favorite planes?
I can’t pick just one.
As a pilot, I soloed in an Archer and then flew it around Europe. My husband and I owned a Skylane for 20 years and flew it—and our kids—around the United States and Caribbean.
My charter gig was in a Chieftain and a Mooney. Both pussycats to fly. As an airline pilot, I piloted the Embraer 175 up and down the Eastern Seaboard, to Canada and Cuba.
As a passenger? The 747, hands down. I’ve lost track of the times I flew across the Atlantic in her safe and comfortable cabin. She may not be as efficient as newer models, but man, she had style.

