Dr. Pam Bird and friends killed in plane crash
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Bird Aviation Museum co-founder Dr. Pamela Riddle Bird, 58, and aviators Tookie Hensley, 80, and Don Hensley, 84, were the victims of an airplane crash …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Bird Aviation Museum co-founder Dr. Pamela Riddle Bird, 58, and aviators Tookie Hensley, 80, and Don Hensley, 84, were the victims of an airplane crash …
By Reader Staff
For Shanda Lear-Baylor, inspiration isn’t something that comes from inside the brain.
That conclusion is not just based on her life but her family’s as well. In …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
When Pam Bird first began seeing her eventual husband, Forrest Bird, years ago, they inevitably found themselves at airfields.
Perhaps in a bid to impress, …
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