Mardell Haskins
Mardell Haskins is a 65 years old widow with 8 children, 25 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren. She lives on Lake Mead near Overton, Nevada, is a cross country air race pilot and retired construction heavy equipment operator, and a member of The Ninety-Nines, International Organization of Women Pilots. She works with students and has a Scout Aviation Explorer Unit in Overton. She's the Founder and Chairman of Overton Airport Day (10 years) which gives free airplane rides to students, ages 8-17 called Young Eagles Flights. They have flown over 1,000 students. Mardell also does a lot of speaking at schools and organizations. She'll be speaking at a math forum for girls ages 8-10 in Erie, Penn in May. Mardell Haskins has organized women pilots groups for 99s in Brazil, Hungary, and Germany. She does a lot of international travel for the 99s and will be flying in a race in New Zealand in March and April of 2004.
Published articles
The following 5 articles by Mardell Haskins have been published in ZATZ magazines.
The twelve seconds that changed history
The 20th Century and aviation began with an unforgettable minute in the span of time, atop a hill on a bitter, cold, windy Carolina morning. Never in the course of history did an event, no matter the magnitude or size, affect the course of the entire world, as did the first powered flight of man. This is the story of that event. [Computing Unplugged Magazine, December 2003]
The age of romance
From the time the Wrights returned home from Europe through the 1920s, the age of romance was a time of great adventure for powered flight. Champion racer Mardell Haskins tells the story of that special age. [DominoPower Magazine, December 2003]
The British Chairwoman's Challenge
Mardell Haskins has twice won the largest women's air race in the world, the Powder Puff Derby. She's flown in well over a hundred other races and has numerous Top Ten finishes. In this exciting article, she tells the story of a race against time, in her "Defense of the Realm." [OutlookPower Magazine, December 2003]
Aviation firsts
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, there were a steady stream of aviation "firsts" that went a long way towards encouraging aviation and also spurred on limited manufacturing of a variety of different types of airplanes over the later half of the first decade and through the entire second decade of aviation. [WebSpherePower Magazine, December 2003]
The World War II years and beyond
World War II marked a huge change in aircraft, and a time of great innovation. In this third article in our series on the history of aviation, pilot Mardell Haskins takes us on a whirlwind tour of the last 70 years of powered flight. [WebSpherePower Magazine, December 2003]
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