Greater Nashua

Shirley Phillips made her first emergency landing at the Manchester Airport when she lost an engine and had to glide in. Now she will be at Balin Books in Nashua on Saturday at 2 p.m. to discuss her new book “How Not To Fly An Airplane: A Female Pilot’s Journey”. Her memoir is about learning to fly before you are old enough to drive a car, and teaching others when you are nearly always mistaken for being the pilot’s girlfriend, wife, or daughter. It’s about the many mistakes you can make in an airplane, and what it’s like to solve them, thousands of feet in the air or just a few feet above the trees. For 10 years she was a flight instructor at Daniel Webster College. She taught flight operations and air traffic management courses to students pursuing careers as pilots, air traffic controllers or aviation managers. She developed a curriculum for a flight training ...