And to prove that a flyer can be a girl, who can soar as high as any man, I’m showing the women around the world that we can fly, we surely can! -Pat Valdata, “Where No Man Can Fly” Katherine Stinson was the first person to fly at night in 1912. Is flying your passion…
Sequence: Aviation
The Aviation Badges are a series of council’s own badges put together by the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana in conjunction with Kentucky Bluegrass Ninety Nines. You can purchase these badges at https://aviationbadges.myshopify.com/.
Girls in 6th grade and up can earn this badge during the Aviation Day Merit Badge session usually conducted in summers at the University Park airport, sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 31.
Brownie Aviation
Do you look up when you hear something fly over your house? Get ready to find out about flying and how much fun aviation can be. Preflight Taxi Takeoff Flight Landing When I finish this badge, I’ll be able to tell others about flying aircraft and what aviation opportunities are ahead. GS Brownie Aviation Badge…
Cadette Aviation
It changes you, flying. The first time I felt the basket lurch aloft and watched the ground recede, something swelled inside me like the linseed-oiled cotton canopy overhead. -Pat Valdata, “Where No Man Can Touch” Mary Hawley Myers was the first woman to pilot her own aircraft in 1880 and her story still resonates today….
Junior Aviation
Above the pines, supported by the air, like the gulls over the sea, whirling. With them I share six minutes of solitude, each, where no man can touch, no shout can read. -Pat Valdata, “Where No Man Can Touch” Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the first woman in the United States to receive a first class…
Senior Aviation Badge
I had to shield my eyes against the sun that shone about the steeples in the square, I knew that soon this fight would be done and nothing in the future would compare -Pat Valdata, “Where No Man Can Touch” Jeanne Labrosse was the first woman to solo in a hot air balloon in 1798….