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  • 93-year-old WASP flies WW2 trainer

    04/24/2010 10:56:05 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 12 replies · 869+ views
    upi ^ | April 24, 2010
    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.- More than 60 years after she flew military planes during World War II, a 93-year-old Florida woman got a chance to fly an AT-6 Texan again. Tex Meacham had a large cheering section Friday as she got into the cockpit of the training plane at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, The Miami Herald reported Saturday. She was serenaded by the men's choir of John Knox Village in Pompano Beach while about two dozen members of the village chapter of the Red Hat Society applauded the woman they call their "queen bee." Meacham spent two years in the Women...