Collegiate air racer calls all-women event ’empowering’

Collegiate air racer calls all-women event ’empowering’

When Marlee Walker’s plane landed Wednesday, her family was on hand to greet her. But Walker wasn’t a passenger, she was the pilot; the aircraft was a single-engine Piper Archer III, and the airport was Sterling Municipal Airport’s Crossen Field. Marlee Walker and two classmates from Minnesota State University in Mankato participated in the 48th Air Race Classic, an all-women race across the nation with a scheduled stop at Sterling. Walker was b…