Comments on: Tosca Trasolini and the Flying Seven https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:54:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mary Wood https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-62616 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:55:43 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-62616 In reply to Eve Lazarus.

Tosca was my aunt. She was an amazing lady to me as a child. I do not know of her flying accomplishments as a child till I was older.

]]> By: Saba Aziz https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-7777 Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:25:50 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-7777 In reply to Margherita Leech (nee Parry).

Dear Margherita! It was amazing to read your story, and to know your brother founded the Langley Flying School! I completed my PPL in 2012 and landed there many times! So exciting to know the history! Especially as a female, it’s an honour and a privilege to be a pilot!

]]> By: Jacquelin https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-6254 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:12:55 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-6254 This article fills me with so much joy every time I come back and read it.

]]> By: Claude Leblanc https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-6217 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 04:02:02 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-6217 The address of the Trasolini house seemed vaguely familiar, so I looked up that area with Google Streetview. Turns out I lived right next door to the house for most of 1997 without ever being aware of its historical significance. I probably never even gave that house a second glance as I was walking by. Well, at least now I know.

]]> By: Maria Minutillo https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-4410 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:44:34 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-4410 What a fascinating story about a remarkable group of women!! I just learnt about this secretive part of women in aviation history because I am a member of the Royal Canadian Legion and saw this tidbit in the front few pages “On This Date” in their September /October 2018 issue. Kudos to these pioneering women!! I would love to learn more about them and Tosca… I am also Italian. Thank you. Molto Grazie. Ciao Bella

]]> By: Margherita Leech (nee Parry) https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-3244 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:28:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-3244 Your reference to Tosca brought back a delightful memory of knowing her back in pre-war days when my brother Kenneth Parry would plant me on the bar of his bike and pedal out to Vancouver Airport so he could spend his hard-earned newspaper delivery money to purchase a brief flying lesson from Tosca while I would stand watching by the fence. Tosca was a friend of our father, John William Parry, who was in the ship chandlery business and spoke Italian fluently, as did our mother, Molly (nee Zanini).
I was quite young at the time (I am now 89), but shared Ken’s fascination with flying and I recall being impressed by Tosca who was beautiful as well as an amazing pilot. She was a member of the Flying Seven, as you recounted, but we lost track of her when WW II started. Ken joined the Air Force, returned after the war and completed his Physics degree at UBC then worked in the oil exploration industry until his retirement at which time he established the Langley Flying School at Langley, B.C. Both Ken and his wife Betty had private flying licenses.
Ken passed away on September 10 at the age of 93. He was a wonderful brother and my best friend. He and I actually home-built a Pietenpol Scout aircraft in our parents’ garage just prior to the war, but since all private aircraft were grounded at that time, we never had an opportunity to fly it.

]]> By: Helene https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-3006 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 03:17:18 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-3006 Fantastic bit of history here! Thanks Eve.

]]> By: Will Woods https://evelazarus.com/tosca-trasolini-and-the-flying-seven/#comment-1600 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:29:08 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=4647#comment-1600 Wow that is crazy she was Angelo Branca’s secretary – what an interesting connection – who knew??

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