Bette Bach Fineman

Born in California, graduated from Wilson High School in Long Beach at age 16. Worked in offices, married a jet pilot, started a family that numbered six.... Kristel, Robert, Erica, James, Jonathan and Bethany. Six grandchildren, six step-grandchildren. Owned great numbers of cats, dogs, cows and one horse. Started flying in 1958, but didn't solo until 1968. Now living in Arizona with her huband Jonathan Fineman, who she met in 1978. She has authored the book "Patterns - Tales of flying and life", for which the first chapter is being published on our Friends of Aviation website. The book can be ordered through her own website www.bettebachfineman.com.

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This is the story of an average California beach girl who marries her high-school sweetheart, becomes a "rightstuff" Air Force jet pilot's wife, learns first to inspire and then to edit the pilot's aviation writing. They have six children, and are living happily ever after...until one day, her mentor, lover and friend is gone...flown away with the seagulls.

Bette Bach, in the depth of despair, lost all hope for the future. With an old airplane her only possession and her children trusting her to lead the little band, she gathered herself, determined to prove she was a worthy person.

They took to the road and the skies and plenty of mistakes were made, but they found a way to live the the present, and face the future. Bette gave her children the only gifts she had, even though today they mihg not yet know what they are.

Her tales of a life of flying show how it was done.

Click here or on the book cover above to read the first chapter of her book.