Anyone remember this Lear pilot?

LOUISE TIMKEN
Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
Enshrined 1994
Louise Timken is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Wellesley College. She earned her pilot’s license in 1943 and was active in the Civil Air Patrol during the latter stages of World War II. For years she and her late husband, Henry H. Timken, Jr., were familiar figures at major aviation events in the U.S. and abroad.

In 1965 she became the first woman to be type-rated in a Learjet. She continued to fly her own Learjet, N88B, until 1992 when she generously gave it to the Pima Air & Space Museum.

Widely known for her efforts to advance programs that benefit fliers and flying, she’s one of the air industry’s most active supporters. In 1973 she chaired the FAA’s Women’s Advisory Committee on Aviation. She’s a trustee of the AFA’s Aerospace Education Foundation, member of the EAA President’s Council and past president of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport Board. She also serves as an honorary director.

Clay Lacy's Lear 24A, 64 CL is in the Palm Springs Air Museum.

Edit: On the right side of the picture frame is part of Mt. San Gorgonio where Frank Sinatra's mother was killed in a Lear Jet when it crashed into the mountain after takeoff from Palm Springs. Dean Martin's son Dino was also killed crashing into the same mountain in an F-4. Sort of a curse on the Rat Pack.

I've flown that airplane :-)
But so have many others

If traffic was light and we had no pax, we would ask our home airport tower for a higher initial altitude (typically 8,000' instead of 3,000') and to waive the 200 knot speed restriction. They almost always approved. Since the Sabreliner 40 & 60 didn't use flaps for takeoff, it was simply a matter of raising the gear and accelerating to just shy of 250 KIAS before heading what felt like straight up. Loved that civilian Sabreliners had G-meters due to their military heritage

Greg

Ah, the good ‘ole days! I love these stories!

If you mean N125NE over the Gulf in 1980...
the full report is an amazing read... Pg.15-16 mentions the speed switch.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Acc ... AR8115.pdf

About a year (4-27-81) after this accident, I don't think the final report was out yet, I was right seat on a charter PBI-TEB in a Citation 501. Abeam JAX on one of the Atlantic Routes, we had a vibration through the airframe, so we diverted to Jacksonville. (turned out to be a worn bushing in the rt. starter/generator).

We told our passenger that we would send our Lear to complete the trip, and she said that it was one of their Lears in the gulf, and it was why she was in a Citation.

Not to mention a Grumman tiger Cat...