Nina's Adventures in Aviation
Ms. Nina started watching YouTube videos about the International Space Station. During the video, the host talked about dehydrated food. Ms. Nina wanted to try dehydrated food. So she made a deal with her Abba: If she could have a good week at home and at school for a whole week, her Abba would order her space ice cream to eat on Friday.
Nina and her Abba first watched this movie when Nina was only one month old – before her Abba left for Iraq. She didn’t quite understand it when she was that young, but now she’s watching it again as a five-year-old. It’s a great movie about a father and daughter bonding over their love for aviation.
Ms. Nina chooses (wisely) to stay at Lee Airport (ANP) in the rain and watch airplanes take off instead of go home and play with her toys.
Ms. Nina takes an impromptu trip to Lee Annapolis Airport to grade landings on the short runway. Runway 30 (pictured above) is 2,505 feet long with a 326 foot displaced threshold, leaving 2,179 feet of usable landing distance available. Ms. Nina asked, “What is a good landing?” Her father answered, “One that lands with a “chirp-chirp”. My landings here always land with a ‘thud’.”
Ms. Nina spent some time in Atlantic City this summer and had the opportunity to watch the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, for the second time, at the Atlantic City Airshow.
Ms. Nina now has a mailbox to match her airplane: a 1946 Piper J-3 Cub.
Ms. Nina visits Lee Annapolis Airport (ANP) to watch airplanes takeoff and land and to watch her father depart in his SR22 to commute to his full-time job flying an Airbus A320. While she is at ANP, she visits an old airplane that may never fly again: “Little Blue”. While Ms. Nina never flew in Little Blue, her father did once several years ago. She had lots of questions about why Little Blue was missing its wings and why it will never fly again.
Ms. Nina tries on her official Cirrus Co-Pilot shirt. She loves it: not because it says “Cirrus Co-Pilot”, but because it’s pink.
Most news stations in major markets have a helicopter to gather video footage. This is known as Electronic News Gathering (ENG). Ms. Nina is trying out for an ENG job. When she showed up to the airport, she got a call to go report on a car crash. Here she is, quickly flying to the scene of the crash.
Ms. Nina not only flies airplanes, but she also designs them and puts them to work in her own airlines. Enter Nina Airlines. In this exclusive interview, Ms. Nina discusses the design of the livery and choice to go with a high-wing as opposed to a mid-wing or low-wing design.