went up very high and did my loops ands rolls and more loops and rolls, and when I landed a man who owned another airport came over and asked what I would charge to fly in his air show. That’s when I became a professional pilot." She was paid $25 to fly in the promoter’s upcoming event in Jacksonville. Interestingly, the same event witnessed the debut of the original Navy Blue Angels team, marking the beginning of a 50-year love affair between Betty and the soon-to-be-famous Blue Angels.
    It was a diminutive Pitts Special experimental biplane, nicknamed "Little Stinker," that carried Betty to her second and third consecutive Feminine International Aerobatic Championships in 1949-50. In her hands, Little Stinker became the most famous aerobatic plane in the

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