Sadly fairly recently passed away but I had the pleasure to log some Cub time with Amelia reid a few years back here in Northern California:
http://www.reidhillviewairport.com/R...ameliareid.htm
"Amelia Reid will always be a big part of what Reid-Hillview Airport is today. Ms. Reid flew airshows starting in 1966. She was a veteran pilot with an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate.With over 40,000 flight hours, she was able to collect single and multi engine land and sea ratings, as well as glider and a type rating in a Citation CE-500. She was a Gold Seal flight instructor was rated for airplane, instrument and ground instruction. At the time of her death in 2001 she had owned and operated Amelia Reid aviation for over 40 years.
Before Ms. Reid started her flight school, she was a programming mathematician at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. Ames Research Center is now occupied and managed by NASA. In the position of mathematician she utilized her Master's degree in mathematics which she received from San Jose State University. However when her son, Robin, was born in 1959, she quit her position at Ames. At that time Ms. Reid had been flying for years with a private pilot certificate and had 525 hours.
Wanting something to do as a part time job she decided to utilize her teacher's credential which she had received when she obtained her Bachelor's degree at Kearney State Teachers College in Kearney, Nebraska. On obtaining her commercial and flight instructor's rating she started teaching flying part time in 1960 at Reid-Hillview Airport for flying clubs and owners of aircraft. Her services were so much in demand that she had to buy her own airplane, a Taylorcraft L2, to teach her students. Her fleet grew from this one Taylorcraft to over 25 planes. The school to this day still issues pilot ratings from private, commercial, instrument, multi-engine, and aerobatic training. Ms. Reid's specialty was teach aerobatics and taildraggers.
During her years of flying airshows, Ms. Reid performed in various airplanes such as the Citabria 7KCAS, Decathlon 8KCAB, Pitts biplane, and a Cessna 150 Aerobat, which is a stock factory airplane with a Continental 100 HP engine and no fuel inverted system. The crowd attention getter was always her butterfly sequence which was a series of swooping diving and climbing turns with 40 degrees of flaps performed at low level near the runway.
Her son, Robin, is following in his mother's footsteps. He received all of his ratings from his mother up through his Airline Transport Pilot. Robin along with his wife Marici still own and manage Amelia Reid Aviation continuing the long history of Reid's at Reid-Hillview Airport."