In 2011, the Scholarship Fund was opened up to students in any accredited 4-year program, and it has now awarded 215 scholarships. It originally awarded two scholarships per year to students at Metropolitan State University of Denver and San Jose State University (Captain Dahl's Alma Mater). His personal attention to his customers has landed him on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and on the morning shows of ABC, NBC and CBS.Ĭaptain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund įounded in 2002 by Sandy Dahl, the Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund is a charitable 501(c)3 that has awarded over $450,000 in college scholarships to aspiring aviators. It was not uncommon to see him pushing a wheel chair, speaking with customers or purchasing meals during long delays. He would often go out of his way to ensure theįlying public received the best possible service. While at United, he rose to be Captain of the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft. He also flew the Lockheed P-3 Orion whose mission was to maintain surveillance of the Russian submarine fleet, search and rescue of ships in distress in the Atlantic OceanĪnd locate drug runners in the Gulf of Mexico. He flew ski-equipped Lockheed C-130 Hercules and provided logistics for scientific experiments. United Airlines Pilot and Extraordinary Customer Service AmbassadorĬaptain Denny Flanagan retired from the United States Navy and United Airlines after a successful and fulfilling 45 year flying career.Īs a Naval Aviator he spent three years with the National Science Foundation in support of Operation Deep Freeze on the Antarctic continent. Penney still flies for enjoyment and has her vintage planes, a Cessna 170 A and a Stearman PT13. Single mother, more time to raise her daughters, now 12 and 14.

She became a traditional reservist, which allowed Penney, then a divorced She was deployed to Iraq in 20, and then took a job at Lockheed Martin, the global securityĪnd aerospace company. Jets, riding at 500 knots, 30,000 feet up, totally focused on the task. She was the only woman in her class.Her squadron gave her the name 'Lucky' when she first arrived, as in 'lucky Penney' She loved flying In graduate school, sheĪpplied and got in. While she was still in college, Congress opened up combat aviation to women. She fell in love, too, with jets and the camaraderie of the Air ForceĬommunity.It wasn't until she got to Purdue University as an undergraduate in 1992 that she discovered women From age 4, she told her mother she wanted to be a fighter pilot, along with a ballerina, aīutterfly, and a volcanologist. Born on an Air Force base in Arizona, Heather Penney grew upĪround the military. “Lucky” Penney was part of the first wave of women who wentĭirectly into fighters from pilot training. Most widely recognized for her service on September 11, Heather

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