In the pink: Judy Betz’s one-of-a-kind RV-12

I was shooting photos of a vintage airplane at AirVenture when a man came up to me and asked if I was the owner of the RV-12 in homebuilt parking. “What makes you ask if it is mine?” I asked, thinking it was one of the stranger questions I have been asked at AirVenture. “Because it matches your shirt,” he explained, gesturing to my General Aviation News-issued pink shirt. “It's really pink.” I smiled. We at General Aviation News do not refer to our shirts as pink. We call them PINK as in “should the REILs go Tango Uniform we can stand at the end of the runway in pitch blackness and pilots will STILL be able to determine where the pavement ends PINK.” An RV-12 painted “really pink” piqued my curiosity, so I headed over to Homebuilts. Oh boy. Continue Reading »

===> Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by Meg Godlewski. No comments. © GAN 2011.

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