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[tranquil music playing]
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[Afton] Daisy Mae!
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[clucking]
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This one, come on. Lulu!
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What? Stevie. That one's Stevie.
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This one's Eda.
That one's Billy.
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Billy.
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Come on, guys. Snack!
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I don't think they can see it.
It's green like the grass.
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Come on, guys. Snack!
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Hey, Bessie.
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Bessie is named
after Bessie Coleman,
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which is like the first female
African-American aviator.
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Amelia is in here. Hey, hey.
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Amelia is a talker.
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Amelia. Hey, ugh.
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Her name is Amelia
named after Amelia Earhart
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since I like aviation
and they're girls.
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Oh, really? Pfft.
She's talking, heh.
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Well, this plane
has Patty Wagstaff in it,
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which I made myself.
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It originally had a, uh,
a boy driver or like pilot
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so I decided I'm like no,
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I want it to change it
to Miss Patty
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so I made my own little
Patty Lego
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to be flying in it
with my Star Wars battle so...
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Well,
Miss Patty is a female pilot
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which she does stunt planes
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and I love to watch her
at like air shows
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and I love her flying up
and out.
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I just think a stunt pilot
is really cool.
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Girls make better pilots than
boys because we're way smarter.
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No offense.
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[upbeat music playing]
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♪ You won't ever see us
Back away ♪
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♪ Ti! we make the world see
That we ain't come to play ♪
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♪ This is so lil girls dream
Bigger than they supposed to ♪
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♪ And we get a fair share of pie
On the plate ♪
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♪ I am her, I am her ♪
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♪ I am her ♪
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♪ Pardon this interruption
Of your daily status quo ♪
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♪ We're here to disrupt ♪
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♪ The arrangement
Of your daddy's show ♪
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♪ This double extraordinary
Enigmatic flow is ♪
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♪ Brought to you by Audre
And Bell and Maya Angelou ♪
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♪ Hand 'em over
We need the titles, receipts ♪
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♪ The empire replete
With the power to speak ♪
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♪ And, no
This is not a request ♪
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♪ Hundreds of years of forced
Silence got a lot on my chest ♪
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♪ And we don't need
Your approval ♪
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♪ On our style of address
Or style of the dress ♪
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♪ I'll rock a head wrap
And bulletproof vest ♪
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♪ And start my lyrical sermon
With this ♪
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♪ Mother you guessed it ♪
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♪ Just so we're clear on who
Governs reproductive requests ♪
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♪ It's not up to anyone's
Opinion on how I protect it ♪
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♪ I'm part of collectives from
Mali to Mecca getting bigger ♪
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♪ And our premiere be major
No longer hidden figures ♪
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♪ We out to level the playing
Field for them young queens ♪
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♪ Coming for that wage gap til
We recoup them Hidden figures ♪
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I In '97, million women marched
And I was with it ♪
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♪ In 2017, the same
The establishment livid ♪
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♪ If this a man's world we came
Here to grab the equivalents ♪
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♪ And watch
The future reimagined ♪
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♪ By the hand of the feminine ♪
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♪ You won't ever see us
Back away ♪
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♪ Ti! we make the world see that
We ain't come to play ♪
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♪ This is so lil girls dream
Bigger than they supposed to ♪
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♪ And we get a fair share of pie
On the plate ♪
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♪ I am her, I am her ♪
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♪ You won't ever see us
Back away ♪
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♪ Ti! we make the world see
That we ain't come to play ♪
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♪ This is so lil girls dream
Bigger than they supposed to ♪
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♪ And we get a fair share
Of pie on the plate ♪
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♪ I am her, I am her ♪
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♪ I am her ♪
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[man 1] The airplane, symbol
of our mastery of the skies,
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Is spanning oceans and
continents in ever dwindling hours,
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bringing new hope
to the people of the world,
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Is spanning oceans and
continents in ever dwindling hours,
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new horizons to industry
and new careers to you.
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For air transportation
has proved itself a vital factor
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in the social and economic life
of modern civilization.
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It is a rapidly
expanding industry
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Embracing many trades
and professions.
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An industry employing
thousands of persons.
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and earn your living in a
youthful and romantic industry,
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And if you want to learn
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Air transportation
presents a challenge
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And an opportunity
for your life work.
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[upbeat music playing]
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Well, I really wanted
to be a pilot when I was a kid.
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I wanted to be an airline pilot
like my dad.
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And, uh, but my parents said,
you know, "Girls don't become pilots.
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You can't really do that."
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You know, I dreamed
about becoming an astronaut,
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And I always knew that
I could do any of that stuff
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and so on, but the oppor...
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but there weren't opportunities
for girls.
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that there weren't any
limitations to what I could do
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An accountant the next day,
an astronaut the next day.
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I mean,
I just changed on the weekly.
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When I was young,
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I was that kid, uh, that wanted
to be a ballerina one day,
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But it just seemed like
something that was really cool.
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It didn't even then seemed like
something that I should consider,
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as, you know, as reality.
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I'm originally from Afghanistan.
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My family and I came to the United
States during the Afghan-Soviet war.
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Uh, so my family came
to the U.S. as refugees.
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It was very difficult for me
to connect with school.
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I grew up in Richmond,
California,
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where it's a very
underprivileged school district.
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Substitute teachers
were the norm.
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English was not
my first language.
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It was actually my third.
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Uh, so I kind of found myself
in this environment
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where, uh,
school wasn't motivating.
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I struggled a lot in school.
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I wasn't good in math
or science, um...
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And I really didn't read my
first chapter book until I was 13.
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I knew I wanted to be
an astronaut at the age of nine
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when I was looking up
at the stars,
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and I thought, "Wow, I wonder
what those things are."
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And ever since then,
I wanted to go into space.
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In school, I used to get bullied a
lot for me wanting to go to space
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and wanting to be an astronaut.
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Girls are taught to be girly
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and stuff that they should
look like and images they...
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They can't live up to and I think
they just stop believing in themselves
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and stop what they want to do.
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My parents had no idea
I wanted to be a pilot.
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I was just a kid
that wanted to play outside.
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I wanted to go on trips
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and go to, you know, Orlando to
go to all the theme parks and stuff.
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Um, being an aviator
never really crossed my mind.
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Growing up, I... I was fed a steady
diet of science fiction and fantasy.
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Uh, so to me, space exploration
never seemed like an unrealistic goal.
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It was definitely something
that was attainable
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because my heroines and heroes
in books were doing it every day.
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How could I not?
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The first person to actually tell me
that my dream was highly unlikely
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and very improbable was my mom.
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She sat me down one day,
and she was like,
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"Abby, do you have any idea
how difficult this is?"
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She told me then and there, "If this is
something that you really want to do,
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you have to make a plan, and
you have to be ready to work for it."
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And so I went away from that
discussion, and I did some research.
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And I typed out a couple
of different documents of ways
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that I could go about
becoming an astronaut.
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When someone tells you
that your dream is impossible,
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you have to prove to them
that it's not.
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I can be not only the first woman
on Mars, but the first person on Mars.
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From that moment on, my mom
has been my biggest supporter.
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Actually had no interest
in aviation.
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My dream was to go be a
psychologist and be a grief counselor.
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So I had never flown.
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I had planes would fly over,
I didn't look twice.
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It wasn't something
that really piqued my interest.
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I had a teacher who encouraged me
to look into a school here in Lake Glenn
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called Central Florida
Aerospace Academy.
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And I started learning
about ground schooling
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and how planes fly, and learning
how to read weather reports
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and learning how to talk to air
traffic control and things like that.
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And I was addicted.
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I was at Career Day Army ROTC.
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I did not want to go into the
aviation tent at all whatsoever.
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I actually made the comment,
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"Like people don't fly,"
which is so not true, right?
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Tuskegee Airmen
Bessie Coleman, Willa Brown,
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and when we walked
into the tent,
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I saw a black woman in a
flight suit and it blew my mind.
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The moment I knew
I wanted to be a pilot
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was when I saw that woman
in the flight suit.
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Now, when did I actually
make the step to become a pilot?
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Uh, I actually applied
four years,
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well, actually three years
skipping one year.
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Women could only apply
once a year
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with the Marine Corps
to become an officer.
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They didn't take my application
the first time.
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They didn't take it the
second time. I skipped a year.
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And on the fourth time,
they accepted my application.
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They say when the door closes
another one opens
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but they didn't tell you
it might be down the hall
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and up the stairs
or around the corner.
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Uh, I have like my winning
collectable planes that I like
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and I have some on my desk,
like this plane.
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And I build some of my planes
like a Wright Brothers plane,
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and I have a lot of the balsa wood
throw like paper airplanes and stuff.
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One of the windup ones
that I've made
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and just some posters
and a painting.
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So I have a lot of, heh,
airplane stuff.
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So, yeah.
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There was a time that daddy
and, you, and myself,
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we had all gone to the bank.
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And, uh, they were doing something
with our insurance paperwork
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and the lady referred to you
as princess.
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She said, "Hi, princess..."
You were four.
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She said, "Hi, princess."
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And your usual, you got really angry
and you said, "I'm not a princess."
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I don't do f... What did you...
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"I don't do fairy tales,
I do flight plans."
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The first time I've flown
a plane, I didn't really know.
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I just like looking out
the window really,
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and just seeing everything
below me.
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We knew Afton was interested
in aviation
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because if there was ever
a plane flying anywhere,
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if you're out anywhere, she
will stop and stare at the plane.
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I mean, but she has been doing
that since she was two.
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I mean, she could be
in a room full of toys
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and she's out the window
staring at the airplanes.
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Uh, take her to a toy store and all
she wants to look at are the planes.
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That's it. Nothing else.
Okay, Legos.
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-Legos.
-Legos.
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Airplane Legos would be
like, the ultimate, right?
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Um, so she's always been
that way.
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She's just never...
She's never deviated from that.
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I mean, even preschool where the
child changes their mind every week.
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I'm going to be a nurse.
I'm going to be a chef.
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Princess was a lot in preschool.
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A lot of kids said that
but what did you always say?
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Pilot.
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I mean, I have her record from when
she was in preschool, at preschool.
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She's like four years old and
she said, "I'm going to be a pilot"
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and it just always stuck.
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I think flying behind the yoke
and be...
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The feel of flying like a bird
is just... I like it.
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I don't really
know how to explain it, just...
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I just feel like
I'm floating on the sky.
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When people say I can't be
a pilot, I don't listen to them.
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I just keep doing it.
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I just like being in the air
and mostly when taking off
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because it feels kind of
like a roller coaster
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which I love roller coasters,
so...
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I grew up in depression years.
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And my brother
was 13 months older than I.
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He graduated high school
and he got a scholarship.
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There were still expenses
sending him there
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and there just wasn't
enough money to send me.
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I had to go out
into the working world.
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I worked my way up
to a private secretary,
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always saying, "I wish I
had further education."
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And then one day I said,
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"Stop feeling sorry for yourself
and do something about it."
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So I looked up
at Newark College of Engineering
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and they gave night courses
and I went to night school.
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And I didn't exactly know
what I wanted to take up,
248
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but they had a course
in aviation.
249
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So I said, "That sounds
interesting. I'll take that."
250
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But when the course
was finished,
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I said, "I think I'll take
a flying lesson
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and see what this is all about."
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Well, the first time I was up,
I was hooked.
254
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Well, it was really an issue of
fairness that I got involved in aviation.
255
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I actually thought I was going
to become a military linguist
256
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because I speak
several languages.
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The instructor sat all of us
down in my class
258
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and said, "Okay, well, men,
doesn't matter what your, um,
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major is in college,
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you have to of your top five
choices or ten choices,
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the majority of them have
to be Combat Arms branches."
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And they didn't have a choice.
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It was a requirement that they put
themselves in the proof of combat.
264
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And then he said,
"Except for Duckworth."
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I was the only woman
in my class.
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And he said, "Duckworth doesn't have
to put any down because she's female."
267
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And I just thought
that was patently unfair
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because I knew I was going
to get equal pay for equal work
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so I felt like
I should take equal risks.
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And I said, "Well, what, what branch
that is Combat Arms is accepting women?"
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And they said, "Well, there's only
two, Air Defense Artillery and aviation."
272
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And the only one that likely will allow
women to see combat anytime soon is aviation.
273
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So I made that my first choice.
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It was really out of just feeling
that it was important to be fair, too,
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and spare the same risk.
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And then I got to flight school
and just fell in love with it.
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I really was looking for something to
get can I sink my teeth in, to excel at.
278
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I didn't know
what it was going to be
279
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but, I, you know, I knew aviation
was going to be a path to that.
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I took lessons
when I moved to Alaska
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and it seems like everybody
in Alaska flies,
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so I had an opportunity up there
to take some lessons.
283
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What started my involvement in
aviation was this place right here, really.
284
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You know,
a family that loved flying.
285
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Uh, my dad loved to build
and fly small airplanes.
286
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And this, you know, Clearwater Air
Park was the place that happened.
287
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So as a family,
we hung out here a lot.
288
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And I got to work on airplanes.
289
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I got to meet people
who love to fly airplanes.
290
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And that was a really interesting
and inspiring thing for me.
291
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While I might not remember
the exact flight that it was,
292
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I have total memory
of getting off the Earth
293
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in an airplane
of looking over the,
294
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you know, top of the front
cockpit of my dad's airplane.
295
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And, you know, seeing my
neighborhood in a totally different way,
296
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that kind of perspective shift
that happens
297
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when you have the opportunity
to separate from something.
298
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And I think that... that whole,
like sense of it, you know,
299
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it was more than just
what you see with your eyes,
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you're actually feeling it,
it becomes part of you,
301
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is what really drove me
to want to know how things fly,
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to want to fly myself,
303
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to want to consider what opportunities
could open up for me because of flying.
304
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I grew up terrified of aviation.
305
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Uh, the only exposure that I had
to anything related to flight
306
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were aircraft accidents on... on television
and I remember looking over at my mom
307
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and saying, "Mom, I hope I never
have to find an airplane."
308
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I would rather take a bus,
take a train, walk, crawl.
309
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I just, I never want to get
inside of an airplane.
310
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When I was 17 years old, just
graduating from high school,
311
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uh, my parents surprised me
with an airline ticket for me
312
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to fly from California
to Florida.
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I made my way to my seat and I sat
down strapped in my seatbelt thinking,
314
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"My gosh, this plane is going to
launch into the sky like a rocket."
315
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And I hold on to the armrests thinking,
"Okay, this is it. It's time to face my fear."
316
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I could feel the, uh...
the aircraft accelerating
317
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and lifting off the ground and it
was so beautiful and so romantic.
318
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And from that moment on, I knew this
is what I want to do the rest of my life.
319
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[upbeat music playing]
320
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[man 2]
Roaring into the Oakland Airport
321
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she brings
to a triumphant finish
322
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a 2,400-mile hop from Hawaii
after 18 hours in the air.
323
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10,000 cheer the end
of the epical flight
324
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as Lady Lindy slides into a
perfect landing with two records,
325
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the first woman to fly
the Pacific Ocean,
326
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the first person to fly it solo.
327
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She receives one of the most
tumultuous greetings ever recorded a flyer.
328
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[clatters]
329
00:17:27,505 --> 00:17:30,049
[indistinct chatter]
330
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Roses to Amelia
and the plaudits of the world
331
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to a veteran of flights that have
shown the way for aviation's progress.
332
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It's our most brilliant chapter
in a 16-year aviation career.
333
00:17:40,017 --> 00:17:42,895
How does it feel to fly
both oceans, Ms. Earhart?
334
00:17:42,979 --> 00:17:48,818
Well, it was very interesting to me to fly
in southern waters rather than in the north.
335
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On the Atlantic flight, I had ice
conditions and general storm.
336
00:17:55,157 --> 00:18:01,247
On this flight, really no bad weather
at all except a few little rain squalls.
337
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I saw the Moon and stars
most of the night.
338
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I think I was 15 or 16.
I had just started driving.
339
00:18:09,005 --> 00:18:13,968
I was driving by myself. And I lived
about a mile away from Burbank Airport.
340
00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:17,930
And I was driving home and there
was a sandwich board on the street.
341
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And it said, "Demo flights $15."
342
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And I pulled over, I call my mom
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00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:27,148
and I said, "Mom, I really,
really, really want to do this.
344
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Uh, there's a flight school
that's doing intro flights.
345
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Can you please bring $15
because I don't have it?"
346
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And that was
my very first flight
347
00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:40,369
and I had my mom with my baby sister
sitting in the back next to my brother.
348
00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:47,293
And I was sitting upfront with the flight
instructor and I was on Cloud Eleven.
349
00:18:47,376 --> 00:18:49,587
It was the coolest thing.
350
00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:52,715
The point in my flight training
that was really the affirmation
351
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that's what I wanted to do
was my first solo.
352
00:18:55,217 --> 00:18:57,553
The Sun was kind of shining
through these clouds.
353
00:18:57,637 --> 00:18:59,889
It had just rained,
354
00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:03,809
so it was a beautiful kind of glory
moment of like, this is your runway.
355
00:19:03,893 --> 00:19:06,187
This is you. And it was
just kind of like a moment
356
00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:07,772
where it kind of took
my breath away
357
00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:10,566
and it really was like,
this is amazing.
358
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I am controlling this plane.
This is what I want to do.
359
00:19:14,570 --> 00:19:20,701
I started flying in flight school in a
Huey, Vietnam-era helicopter, a H Moto Huey.
360
00:19:20,785 --> 00:19:26,624
I was one of three officers in my class
selected out of 40 to, uh, fly the Black Hawk,
361
00:19:26,707 --> 00:19:29,835
to get trained in the Black Hawk which
was considered an advanced aircraft.
362
00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:32,630
I have been flying commercially
since I was a little baby
363
00:19:32,713 --> 00:19:34,382
but to be
in the flight controls,
364
00:19:34,465 --> 00:19:37,843
to be controlling this aircraft
was an amazing thing.
365
00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:40,304
And to think that my country
trusted in me to do this,
366
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to protect and defend her, uh,
was really quite a privilege.
367
00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:48,270
I initially decided
to become a pilot
368
00:19:48,354 --> 00:19:52,775
as a way to further my goals
to become an astronaut.
369
00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:57,488
But once I started flying and once I
started to get to know the aviation industry
370
00:19:57,571 --> 00:20:00,449
and get more familiar with...
with aircraft,
371
00:20:00,533 --> 00:20:03,786
I realized that
flying is a passion of its own.
372
00:20:03,869 --> 00:20:07,915
Flying, it's...
it's a feeling unlike any other.
373
00:20:07,998 --> 00:20:11,127
Oh, it definitely looks
different from up here.
374
00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:12,837
[man 3] Yeah,
you can't figure out anything.
375
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,422
[laughs]
376
00:20:14,505 --> 00:20:15,923
[inaudible].
377
00:20:16,507 --> 00:20:21,595
It's something that... I am
struggling for words to describe
378
00:20:21,679 --> 00:20:28,185
because flying is so beautiful
and so different from daily life.
379
00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:32,690
[woman 1 over the radio]
Cessna 959 [inaudible] signal is...
380
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,317
[chuckles]
381
00:20:35,401 --> 00:20:39,363
[man 4 over the radio]
[inaudible] Runway 108.
382
00:20:39,447 --> 00:20:42,158
-[man 3] Just like that.
-That is so fantastic.
383
00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:44,201
[man 3] Yep.
384
00:20:44,326 --> 00:20:46,912
[laughs] So I had a couple
different first-time times flying,
385
00:20:46,996 --> 00:20:51,459
whether it was the first time
in a T-34 Charlie Turbo Mentor,
386
00:20:51,542 --> 00:20:54,086
or it was the first time
in the Bell Helicopter.
387
00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:58,716
The first time I lifted just
the skids broke the deck, right.
388
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:01,927
I'm flying. This is gold.
And I'm just in the backseat.
389
00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:04,388
You feel like you're floating.
390
00:21:04,472 --> 00:21:08,517
Or the first time I climbed into the cockpit
of that AH1 Whiskey SuperCobra helicopter,
391
00:21:08,601 --> 00:21:12,980
and feeling it taxi out to the
runway, push down on the stick,
392
00:21:13,063 --> 00:21:17,359
pull up on the throttle,
feeling that nose go shift
393
00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:19,403
and you could feel
that momentum.
394
00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:22,364
Out of all the different
experiences
395
00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:25,701
I've had in a first
in the cockpit,
396
00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:29,413
they've all been amazing,
they've all had their magic
397
00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:32,917
and it will be an experience
I'll never forget.
398
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,921
It was tough going
from my background of my science
399
00:21:37,004 --> 00:21:39,799
and my math skills
and bringing it up to the level
400
00:21:39,882 --> 00:21:42,635
that it needed to be
for me to become a pilot,
401
00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:46,096
the one feeling
that kept me going every time,
402
00:21:46,180 --> 00:21:49,725
uh, whenever I'd feel down
or I felt unmotivated
403
00:21:49,809 --> 00:21:52,228
was the feeling
that I would feel in the air.
404
00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:57,191
And for me, um, it...
it didn't matter who I was
405
00:21:57,274 --> 00:21:58,901
or what my background was.
406
00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:01,612
It didn't matter that
I am a refugee from Afghanistan,
407
00:22:01,695 --> 00:22:03,948
from a family of six girls.
408
00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:05,616
None of those things matter.
409
00:22:05,699 --> 00:22:09,203
When I'm in the airplane
and I'm being propelled forward,
410
00:22:09,286 --> 00:22:12,706
all that matters is my ability
to fly that aircraft.
411
00:22:12,790 --> 00:22:15,543
And that feeling is something
that I have found
412
00:22:15,626 --> 00:22:18,504
and I have from day one
wanted to hold on to.
413
00:22:18,587 --> 00:22:22,550
When I went to college and my
parents knew I wanted to be a pilot
414
00:22:22,633 --> 00:22:26,428
since I was 14 years old but they
insisted that I went to university.
415
00:22:26,512 --> 00:22:31,725
So I went to UC San Diego
and I got a degree in an area
416
00:22:31,809 --> 00:22:33,978
that I really just had
an interest in as a hobby
417
00:22:34,061 --> 00:22:37,481
but nothing to do with aviation
so I got a psychology degree.
418
00:22:37,565 --> 00:22:40,109
It was almost like I took
a seven-year vacation
419
00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:42,653
from learning anything
about aviation.
420
00:22:42,736 --> 00:22:45,948
And then once I was done
with that, walked onto the airport,
421
00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:49,034
started interviewing which
flight school I wanted to go to,
422
00:22:49,118 --> 00:22:51,078
got my pilot's rating
in 34 days.
423
00:22:51,161 --> 00:22:52,913
Haven't left the airport since.
424
00:22:53,789 --> 00:22:56,000
[upbeat music playing]
425
00:22:56,083 --> 00:22:57,626
[man 4] Mrs. Jerrie Mock
426
00:22:57,710 --> 00:23:00,004
pauses briefly in Oakland,
California,
427
00:23:00,087 --> 00:23:03,257
as she nears the end of a
successful around the world solo flight.
428
00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:05,885
After a quick check out
of her 11-year-old light plane,
429
00:23:05,968 --> 00:23:08,929
the Ohio housewife prepares
to take off for Columbus
430
00:23:09,013 --> 00:23:14,435
on the final leg of a 23,000-mile
journey with 21 stops in 29 days,
431
00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:17,229
she is the first woman
to make the solo world flight
432
00:23:17,313 --> 00:23:20,107
and she's racked up a flock
of records in the bargain
433
00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:22,985
as she arrives to a hearty
greeting in Columbus.
434
00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:27,448
Tired but happy, Mrs. Mock receives
a governmental award for her feat,
435
00:23:27,531 --> 00:23:29,783
honor for a high-flying
housewife.
436
00:23:29,867 --> 00:23:33,495
[upbeat music playing]
437
00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:36,749
Well, I knew I wanted to fly
myself.
438
00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:39,460
Uh, you know, I wanted to earn
my private pilot's license.
439
00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:43,505
I wanted to be able to get off
the planet myself in an airplane.
440
00:23:43,589 --> 00:23:49,511
Uh, so I, after high school, uh,
went to the local community college.
441
00:23:49,595 --> 00:23:52,556
They had this great program
called Aviation Administration.
442
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,769
It was basically kind of aviation
business degree or an introduction to it.
443
00:23:56,852 --> 00:23:59,605
But as part of it, you could
earn your private pilot's license.
444
00:23:59,688 --> 00:24:02,608
I really had to figure out
what is it I wanted to do
445
00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:06,695
and that was more wanting
to know how things fly
446
00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:10,199
and that's what led me down the
aeronautical engineering path.
447
00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:14,620
And so I just continued to
pursue the kind of the love of flying
448
00:24:14,703 --> 00:24:17,164
from the standpoint
of how do things fly
449
00:24:17,247 --> 00:24:20,417
and that led me to NASA
as a NASA engineer.
450
00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:25,881
[Bernice] Jacqueline Cochran had
been trying since 1938 or 1939
451
00:24:25,965 --> 00:24:30,886
to convince the Army Air Corps that they
should be training women as well as men.
452
00:24:30,970 --> 00:24:32,638
One day in the newspaper,
453
00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:36,642
there appeared an article
about Mrs. Sheehy,
454
00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:43,107
who was going to be interviewing for those
who might want to enter the WASP training,
455
00:24:43,649 --> 00:24:46,443
WASP being the
Women Air Force Service Pilots.
456
00:24:46,527 --> 00:24:49,905
Uh, I think, there were only
when that war started,
457
00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:52,032
December 7th, '41,
458
00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:57,287
uh, 30,000 qualified
male pilots.
459
00:24:57,371 --> 00:25:02,584
The main reason that we were formed
was to relieve men for active duty.
460
00:25:02,668 --> 00:25:07,881
Let's see if the women can do all the
jobs now there were many jobs to be done
461
00:25:07,965 --> 00:25:12,594
and, eventually, we were
stationed at a 150 different bases
462
00:25:12,678 --> 00:25:17,391
and that's how I got started in
flying for the Army Air Corps.
463
00:25:17,474 --> 00:25:19,560
I was always interested
in aerobatics, um...
464
00:25:19,643 --> 00:25:22,104
But I'd never seen it.
I'd never been to an air show.
465
00:25:22,187 --> 00:25:24,857
I started saying to my husband, I
really am interested in aerobatics.
466
00:25:25,399 --> 00:25:29,778
And I was sitting in, uh,
a little FBO in Michigan,
467
00:25:29,862 --> 00:25:31,697
and I found this
Sport Aerobatics Magazine,
468
00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:34,074
which is the international
aerobatic club magazine.
469
00:25:34,158 --> 00:25:37,828
And, uh, I said, "Look, there's
a whole club devoted to this.
470
00:25:37,911 --> 00:25:40,831
There's contests
and articles about it."
471
00:25:40,914 --> 00:25:43,292
I was just fascinated.
I read every single word.
472
00:25:43,375 --> 00:25:45,627
So, he said,
"Okay, let's go to an air show
473
00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:47,421
and we go to a competition
and see how you like it."
474
00:25:47,504 --> 00:25:50,382
So we flew our plane,
we had a Cessna 185,
475
00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:53,218
and we flew our plane down
to Canada, went to an air show,
476
00:25:53,302 --> 00:25:56,305
and then we flew it
to Minnesota, or to Wisconsin,
477
00:25:56,388 --> 00:25:58,098
to a contest.
478
00:25:58,182 --> 00:26:02,269
Um, and I got to see that, too,
and I was just blown away.
479
00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:04,855
I said, "That's... that's what
I want to do. I can do that."
480
00:26:04,938 --> 00:26:08,442
My first ten hours of aerobatics was
with a woman in Anchorage, Alaska,
481
00:26:08,525 --> 00:26:10,110
and in her decathlon.
482
00:26:10,194 --> 00:26:11,987
It took me a while
to find a teacher.
483
00:26:12,071 --> 00:26:15,240
And, uh, I loved it. I was...
I was so excited about doing it.
484
00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:17,284
I was afraid for some reason
it wouldn't agree with me
485
00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:19,161
and I wouldn't be good at it,
that was my big fear.
486
00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:21,288
But when I had to go
up the first time and do it,
487
00:26:21,371 --> 00:26:24,917
it was a big deal, I went
up really high. It went okay.
488
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,837
You know, you got to put your money
where your mouth is here, you know, heh.
489
00:26:33,801 --> 00:26:36,303
[Afton] So we're at the Florida
Strawberry Festival
490
00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:40,349
and I am dropping off my two
chickens, Georgia and Bessie.
491
00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:42,726
I named some of my chickens
after female aviators
492
00:26:42,810 --> 00:26:44,937
because I'm really
into aviation,
493
00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:47,689
and I thought it'd be
a good name for them.
494
00:26:47,773 --> 00:26:51,360
And kind of their colors they kind of
remind me of the flight suits and stuff
495
00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:52,569
that they wore.
496
00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:54,696
[clucking]
497
00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:55,656
Shh.
498
00:26:57,658 --> 00:27:00,035
It's okay. Good girl.
499
00:27:00,577 --> 00:27:02,621
[clucking]
500
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:09,044
Good girl. Don't be stressed
out. It's going to be okay.
501
00:27:10,546 --> 00:27:13,966
[rooster crows]
502
00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:16,093
My hobbies, um...
503
00:27:16,176 --> 00:27:21,473
I love my chickens and I take
them to shows, in race chickens,
504
00:27:21,557 --> 00:27:27,104
build Legos, obviously,
um, and I also like golfing.
505
00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:33,402
We originally, um, sent her to a,
um, green school, an all-green school.
506
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:37,072
Um, they had a garden and such.
507
00:27:37,156 --> 00:27:39,366
Uh, they also had chickens.
508
00:27:39,449 --> 00:27:42,035
It was a great school, A school.
A-rated school.
509
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,871
There's a waitlist. There's
a waiting list to get in.
510
00:27:43,954 --> 00:27:47,249
Friend of mine had gone,
and myself gone and looked.
511
00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:50,544
She's a teacher and she was
looking at different teachers' options.
512
00:27:50,627 --> 00:27:54,840
And they had an open house
of lots of different schools,
513
00:27:54,923 --> 00:27:56,758
and we found an open house.
514
00:27:56,842 --> 00:27:59,052
We weren't thinking
of changing her schools,
515
00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:03,557
but they had, uh, flight
simulators in an elementary school.
516
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,267
And I was like, whoa.
517
00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:07,561
And so...
518
00:28:07,644 --> 00:28:10,606
Joel and I decided to make
the switch which is crazy,
519
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:14,610
because the school really
didn't get rated the "highest".
520
00:28:15,027 --> 00:28:18,530
Um, but you know what, it rated
the highest for her needs.
521
00:28:19,281 --> 00:28:23,869
It had what she needed, what
she craved, what she thrived in.
522
00:28:23,952 --> 00:28:26,163
I think it has expanded
her horizons
523
00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:31,126
and made her think so far outside
the box and on a whole different level.
524
00:28:34,379 --> 00:28:36,256
[man 5] Ladies and gentleman,
525
00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:39,301
what you've just seen is a
way man is not intended to fly.
526
00:28:39,384 --> 00:28:42,429
And let me tell you what,
that's not a man flying.
527
00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:46,266
That's many-time national
champion, Patty Wagstaff,
528
00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:49,019
in her extra aircraft,
ladies and gentlemen.
529
00:28:49,102 --> 00:28:52,272
One of the most skilled pilots
on the airshow circuit today,
530
00:28:52,356 --> 00:28:55,275
a three-time
U.S- National Aerobatic Champ,
531
00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:57,903
six-time member
of the U.S. aerobatic team,
532
00:28:57,986 --> 00:28:59,696
and a six-time winner
533
00:28:59,821 --> 00:29:02,324
of the Betty Skelton First Lady
of Aerobatics award.
534
00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:04,701
Patty's won so many awards
for her flying.
535
00:29:04,785 --> 00:29:08,830
In 2004, she was inducted into
the national aviation hall of fame.
536
00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:12,167
She's received both the
National Air and Space Museum
537
00:29:12,251 --> 00:29:13,961
for current achievement
538
00:29:14,044 --> 00:29:17,047
and the U.S. Air Force
Lifetime Achievement Award.
539
00:29:17,881 --> 00:29:20,384
And the airplane,
the early one she flew,
540
00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:25,097
the Prototype Extra 260 hangs in the
U.S. National Air and Space Museum,
541
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:28,141
very close to those
of Amelia Earhart.
542
00:29:28,225 --> 00:29:30,894
Basically, I spent, you know,
seven years of my life
543
00:29:30,978 --> 00:29:33,605
just thinking, eating,
breathing,
544
00:29:34,147 --> 00:29:39,236
um, being a full-time, you know,
professional aerobatic pilot,
545
00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,071
with the goal of winning
the Nationals.
546
00:29:41,154 --> 00:29:44,157
The men didn't see that
a woman could win the Nationals,
547
00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:46,368
and so the overall championship.
548
00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:51,873
And I started seeing, you know,
the sexism and, um, the mindset.
549
00:29:51,957 --> 00:29:54,376
This isn't a sport like tennis
where we're built differently.
550
00:29:54,459 --> 00:29:58,046
This is... this is an airplane and the
airplane doesn't know the difference.
551
00:29:58,130 --> 00:30:01,550
And so I said, "Well, you know, why
hasn't a woman won the Nationals?"
552
00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:06,972
And the men would say, "Well,
women aren't aggressive enough."
553
00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:10,100
Or, "Well, the judges
would never let it happen."
554
00:30:10,183 --> 00:30:11,977
Or, you know, "They just
don't have what it takes."
555
00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:14,313
I started it as an education
process of,
556
00:30:14,396 --> 00:30:16,398
you know, of course,
a woman can win.
557
00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:18,275
You know, we don't do anything
any different.
558
00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:19,901
The airplane doesn't know
the difference.
559
00:30:19,985 --> 00:30:22,070
And there's no reason
why women can't win.
560
00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:24,406
Then after I won the first time,
a friend said,
561
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:25,699
"You know,
you've got to win again."
562
00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:27,242
I'm like, "Why is that?"
563
00:30:27,326 --> 00:30:29,077
He said, "Because they'll think
it's a fluke"
564
00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:30,746
because you're a woman."
565
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,332
So you have to do more
than a guy would have to do."
566
00:30:33,415 --> 00:30:36,001
So I made it my goal
to win three times.
567
00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:39,171
And since then, a number of
women have won the U.S. Nationals,
568
00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:41,882
which is really cool
and the next woman that won it,
569
00:30:41,965 --> 00:30:44,259
um, somebody came up
and said, "So how do you feel?
570
00:30:44,343 --> 00:30:46,303
Do you feel jealous?"
And I said, "Are you kidding?
571
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:48,138
That's just what
I would hope for."
572
00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:49,973
I was hoping
that other women would win.
573
00:30:50,057 --> 00:30:53,560
I was tired of being this kind
of a freak and a fluke
574
00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:57,814
and, "Well, she's different," you know,
"She is more aggressive," which is not true.
575
00:30:57,898 --> 00:31:01,735
Um, I just put the same into it
than anybody else would.
576
00:31:01,818 --> 00:31:05,322
[tranquil music playing]
577
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:07,240
[man 5] Well,
Patty gets a good sight on it.
578
00:31:07,324 --> 00:31:09,409
She's going to turn that
extremely inverted position
579
00:31:09,493 --> 00:31:12,746
and see if she can cut
the ribbon upside down,
580
00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:17,209
all approaching at an
approximately 120 miles an hour.
581
00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:19,252
I believe the ribbon
is in peril.
582
00:31:19,336 --> 00:31:21,880
Let's keep your eyes on it.
Get those cameras rolling.
583
00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:26,218
She comes down on the deck.
584
00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:30,472
Watch for her to go to the inverted
position and line up on that ribbon.
585
00:31:31,181 --> 00:31:33,558
I think that ribbon's lifespan
is going to be very short.
586
00:31:33,642 --> 00:31:35,227
Here she comes.
587
00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,146
Remember, less than
22 feet off the ground,
588
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:40,524
inverted show center.
589
00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:43,276
Oh, that ribbon is a dead money.
590
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,487
She's got a beautiful job.
How about that?
591
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,656
Give her a big round of
applause, ladies and gentlemen.
592
00:31:47,739 --> 00:31:49,658
This is Patty Wagstaff.
593
00:31:53,954 --> 00:32:00,669
[upbeat music playing]
594
00:32:00,752 --> 00:32:04,005
[man 6] This is Texas,
cradle of our army's Air Force.
595
00:32:04,089 --> 00:32:06,216
This is an AAF field too,
596
00:32:06,299 --> 00:32:08,260
but over headquarters ride
the strange,
597
00:32:08,343 --> 00:32:10,429
little girl gremlin
called Fifinella.
598
00:32:10,512 --> 00:32:12,514
And out of those buses
are stepping girls,
599
00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:15,392
girls who give a new angle
to an air force story.
600
00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:19,396
They're WASPS: Women's Air Force
Service Pilots.
601
00:32:20,439 --> 00:32:22,232
It was experimental.
602
00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,818
The Army Air Corps
didn't know whether women
603
00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:28,113
would be capable of living
the military life
604
00:32:28,196 --> 00:32:30,240
and flying
the military aircraft.
605
00:32:30,323 --> 00:32:34,536
Here we were trained just the
way the male cadets were trained.
606
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:38,540
Up at 6AM,
a half a day of flying
607
00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:40,917
and a half a day
of ground school.
608
00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:43,462
And everything was...
was military.
609
00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:46,256
We were treated military
all the way through.
610
00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:49,134
And, yet, we were not military.
611
00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:53,180
Fortunately, uh,
I always had good instructors.
612
00:32:53,263 --> 00:32:54,806
They were serious about it.
613
00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:57,893
They didn't mind
teaching female.
614
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:02,772
There were some instructors
that resented the fact.
615
00:33:02,856 --> 00:33:07,110
I mean, this is their field
flying airplanes.
616
00:33:07,194 --> 00:33:09,946
Women should not be flying
airplanes.
617
00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:17,829
And there was one incident where,
uh, women were sent to B26 School,
618
00:33:18,371 --> 00:33:20,540
and when they got there,
619
00:33:20,624 --> 00:33:25,795
the instructor that was supposed
to check them out in the B26 said...
620
00:33:25,879 --> 00:33:29,299
[laughs] "I'm not teaching
any damn women how to fly."
621
00:33:29,382 --> 00:33:32,636
Well, he had to.
It was an order.
622
00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:34,846
Once you graduated
and had your wings,
623
00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:36,890
then we were sent to a field
to do something.
624
00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:39,684
Some of the commanding
officers there,
625
00:33:39,768 --> 00:33:43,730
they did not want women
on their base.
626
00:33:43,813 --> 00:33:48,777
A lot of people
had a misconception
627
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:53,281
and did not really, really know
exactly what we were doing.
628
00:33:53,365 --> 00:33:56,743
Now there were many jobs
to be done.
629
00:33:57,202 --> 00:33:58,828
You need to fly gunners
630
00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:01,915
so they have practice shooting
from a moving aircraft.
631
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:06,002
You need towed targets so the
anti-aircraft can practice shooting.
632
00:34:06,086 --> 00:34:09,756
You need pilots to fly at nights
so the beams have practice.
633
00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:13,343
So all those involved a pilot.
634
00:34:13,426 --> 00:34:16,930
Sometimes,
the anti-aircraft gunners
635
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:19,266
that were learning
how to shoot them
636
00:34:19,349 --> 00:34:23,520
would hit the airplane
instead of the target.
637
00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:28,733
And there was one case
where the aircraft crashed.
638
00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:33,280
And she couldn't get
the hatch open.
639
00:34:33,363 --> 00:34:35,240
And then there was another case
640
00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:39,911
where someone had put sugar
in the gas tank.
641
00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:43,957
And when that aircraft took off,
it crashed and she was killed.
642
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,420
There were 38 of us that
were killed in the line of service.
643
00:34:49,379 --> 00:34:53,508
So it was not a frivolous job.
644
00:34:53,967 --> 00:34:56,303
[man 7] Graduation day means
that they've grown up.
645
00:34:56,386 --> 00:34:58,930
They're army fliers.
646
00:34:59,014 --> 00:35:02,142
As they know their experience here has
been no interlude for romantic adventure
647
00:35:02,225 --> 00:35:05,562
but a period of intensive
training for a highly important job.
648
00:35:05,645 --> 00:35:09,858
At the moment, there is a bill in
Congress to bring them into the Air Force.
649
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:12,611
In June of 1944,
650
00:35:12,694 --> 00:35:17,949
the bill was defeated that would have
made us a part of the Army Air Corps.
651
00:35:18,491 --> 00:35:20,702
And, you know,
you had other people in service.
652
00:35:20,785 --> 00:35:24,664
I mean, the WAACS
had their women's corps.
653
00:35:24,748 --> 00:35:29,085
The WAVES, the SPARS,
they were all recognized,
654
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:32,380
and they were all given
the benefits.
655
00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:38,094
And the WASPS were not, even
though we were treated as military.
656
00:35:38,178 --> 00:35:42,557
When we all knew that we were
going to be disbanded December 20th,
657
00:35:42,641 --> 00:35:45,685
we decided to have
an organization.
658
00:35:45,769 --> 00:35:50,523
Uh, the main purpose at that
time was to get information
659
00:35:50,607 --> 00:35:53,234
about what kind of flying jobs
there were,
660
00:35:53,318 --> 00:35:57,614
and get the information out
and then we would have reunions.
661
00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,700
So this organization
continued on.
662
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:05,246
I was the president of the
organization from '75 to '78.
663
00:36:05,789 --> 00:36:10,669
And, uh, Colonel Arnold,
General Arnold's son,
664
00:36:10,752 --> 00:36:13,463
came to one of our reunions
and he said,
665
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:16,383
because he was a lobbyist
in Washington,
666
00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:19,135
and he said,
"I will help you, girls,
667
00:36:19,219 --> 00:36:24,474
to get recognition as veterans
of World War ll," which he did.
668
00:36:24,557 --> 00:36:26,559
[calm music playing]
669
00:36:26,643 --> 00:36:31,272
And, incidentally,
we were, in 2010...
670
00:36:31,356 --> 00:36:36,778
we were issued the Congressional
Gold Medal given to us by Congress.
671
00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:46,871
And this is a small replica
of the medal.
672
00:36:47,414 --> 00:36:50,417
Other one,
if I put it on a chain,
673
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:53,962
I'd be walking like this,
it's big.
674
00:36:54,045 --> 00:36:58,091
[man 8]As they go up to receive their
wings from the top woman pilot of them all,
675
00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:01,052
the founder of the WASPS,
Ms. Jacqueline Cochran.
676
00:37:01,136 --> 00:37:04,013
Each WASP, like other women
in other services,
677
00:37:04,097 --> 00:37:06,015
has achieved no little thing.
678
00:37:06,099 --> 00:37:09,102
She has gone into a man's world
because the men needed her,
679
00:37:09,185 --> 00:37:11,855
gone through a tough ordeal
as just a girl
680
00:37:11,938 --> 00:37:15,608
and come out a girl pilot
with a U-S. Army Air Force.
681
00:37:19,112 --> 00:37:24,576
The one thing that pleases me
the most is that I got my wings.
682
00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:31,499
That here's this gal
who came from nowhere
683
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:37,005
and she's flying an airplane
and she's earning her wings.
684
00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:40,967
[tranquil music playing]
685
00:37:51,186 --> 00:37:53,146
I wasn't nervous.
I was excited about it.
686
00:37:53,229 --> 00:37:56,524
I had waited about six weeks,
um, to get my first top up
687
00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:59,152
and I was in the front seat
and it was pretty awesome.
688
00:37:59,235 --> 00:38:00,779
It's pretty awesome.
689
00:38:00,862 --> 00:38:03,114
The Cobra flies pretty
aggressively, uh, nose down
690
00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:06,451
when you're just traveling at about
130 knots about 90 degrees nose down.
691
00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:11,080
So how you see the aircraft here
is straight and level
692
00:38:11,164 --> 00:38:12,957
and it's, you know,
going through the sky like,
693
00:38:13,041 --> 00:38:15,168
you know,
ready to attack, basically.
694
00:38:15,251 --> 00:38:17,879
So it's awesome,
awesome feeling.
695
00:38:19,130 --> 00:38:22,550
When I move
to my fleet helicopter,
696
00:38:22,634 --> 00:38:27,764
which was the AH1 Whiskey SuperCobra
in the Marine Corps, just amazing.
697
00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:30,975
When you see it in pictures,
it just, it doesn't look that big.
698
00:38:31,059 --> 00:38:33,394
And I remember the first time
walking into the hangar
699
00:38:33,478 --> 00:38:36,022
and I walked through the door and
this huge thing just loomed in front of me
700
00:38:36,105 --> 00:38:41,027
and it was like, wow,
really speechless for a moment.
701
00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:43,196
Wow,
I'm going to be flying that?
702
00:38:43,279 --> 00:38:45,281
Then you learn to fly the Cobra.
703
00:38:45,406 --> 00:38:49,869
Then you learn to fight the Cobra
or flying just becomes second nature.
704
00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:54,415
Now, it's a machine in battle,
saving lives.
705
00:38:57,836 --> 00:38:59,838
We had been out
for a little over an hour.
706
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:02,966
We were taken at a target that
was known to have munitions in it.
707
00:39:03,049 --> 00:39:06,845
Uh, you know, bombs,
missiles, explosives,
708
00:39:06,928 --> 00:39:10,014
C4s, uh, rocket,
anything and everything
709
00:39:10,098 --> 00:39:15,019
the enemy could use to create
lEDs, improvised explosive devices.
710
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,900
Hour into the mission, we got a call
from one of the ground controllers.
711
00:39:20,984 --> 00:39:24,529
And you could hear the
desperation in this guy's voice.
712
00:39:24,612 --> 00:39:27,907
He said, "Viper, we have Marines
and soldiers pinned down
713
00:39:27,991 --> 00:39:30,869
north of the cemetery,
and they need your help."
714
00:39:30,952 --> 00:39:32,704
And, at that moment,
715
00:39:32,787 --> 00:39:35,456
if you could have felt the acid
bomb explode in my stomach,
716
00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:37,876
because we had been out
for a little over an hour.
717
00:39:37,959 --> 00:39:43,006
And that meant we probably
maybe only had 20 minutes of fuel
718
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:45,091
left on the aircraft.
719
00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:48,678
And on top of that, we only
had one missile left on our aircraft
720
00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:50,555
because we'd been trying
to take out that target.
721
00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:55,894
Gutsy move. Marines don't leave
Marines behind.
722
00:39:55,977 --> 00:39:59,689
Next ground controller checks in
even more desperate than the first guy.
723
00:39:59,772 --> 00:40:01,774
"Viper, we're pinned down.
724
00:40:01,858 --> 00:40:03,943
We don't have any ammunition
to shoot back
725
00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:06,863
because we don't even have any
green smoke to mark our position.
726
00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:11,159
Let me know when you can see
the glint from my mirror."
727
00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:14,537
When you are down
to signaling with a mirror,
728
00:40:14,621 --> 00:40:18,625
the size of the palm
of your hand, you're in trouble.
729
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,294
As I scan down
into that cemetery,
730
00:40:21,377 --> 00:40:23,588
looking for any sign
of our friendly forces,
731
00:40:23,671 --> 00:40:26,090
I saw small glint come out,
"Contact, I see you."
732
00:40:26,174 --> 00:40:30,595
Viper, do you see that road in
front of me running from east to west?
733
00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:32,972
Follow it to the west.
734
00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:36,017
You're going to see another road that runs
north and south. Follow it to the south.
735
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:39,562
You're going to see a building with a tower
sticking out of it with a blue dome at the top.
736
00:40:39,646 --> 00:40:42,565
Call when you contact
that building.
737
00:40:42,649 --> 00:40:45,693
Follow the road to the west.
Follow the road to the south.
738
00:40:45,777 --> 00:40:48,863
Building, tower, blue dome.
Contact.
739
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:50,323
Break right!
Break right quickly!
740
00:40:50,406 --> 00:40:52,408
I'm like, why?
Because now small arms fire
741
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:55,411
is coming out of that tower
trying to take us out of the sky.
742
00:40:55,536 --> 00:40:57,330
We flew around.
743
00:40:57,413 --> 00:40:59,165
I turned that selector switch
over to that very last missile.
744
00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:00,708
We pop up over the ridge.
745
00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:02,251
We are now searching,
scanning for our target.
746
00:41:02,335 --> 00:41:04,003
Target in sight.
Aircraft pops up.
747
00:41:04,087 --> 00:41:06,756
Finger on the trigger
waiting to come in range
748
00:41:06,839 --> 00:41:10,134
and waiting for that magical phrase,
"You have permission to engage."
749
00:41:10,218 --> 00:41:13,346
We got the phrase, I pulled the
trigger, "Missile away," I called out.
750
00:41:13,429 --> 00:41:14,889
Nothing happened.
751
00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:16,766
Marines and soldiers
on the ground,
752
00:41:16,849 --> 00:41:20,645
inevitably, getting ready to go
into hand-to-hand combat
753
00:41:20,728 --> 00:41:22,355
if we didn't come through.
754
00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:24,691
We reset a couple of switches.
755
00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:28,569
Turn the selector switch back over
to the last missile for one final try.
756
00:41:28,653 --> 00:41:32,031
Pull the trigger, phew.
Missile comes off the rail.
757
00:41:32,115 --> 00:41:35,326
Impacts the target. Pull off to
the right. Head back to base.
758
00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:39,372
Check in with the duty officer
what happened with the mission.
759
00:41:39,455 --> 00:41:41,374
"Ma'am, target was destroyed.
760
00:41:41,457 --> 00:41:43,042
Marines and soldiers
will be coming home tonight."
761
00:41:43,126 --> 00:41:44,544
It was absolutely amazing.
762
00:41:44,627 --> 00:41:47,130
And an experience
I will never forget.
763
00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:51,217
But that's not even it.
So now I'm back at home.
764
00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:53,636
Back from the deployment.
765
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,140
And I'm standing in the hospital line
waiting for a routine doctor's appointment
766
00:41:57,223 --> 00:42:00,309
in front of me,and I'm talking to the marine
"Hey, marine, how you doing? What's going on?"
767
00:42:00,393 --> 00:42:02,353
He said, "Well, Ma'am, I have
some shrapnel in my left leg."
768
00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:04,063
I said, "Whoa, shrapnel!
769
00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:05,732
Were you recently deployed?"
He said, "Yes, Ma'am.
770
00:42:05,815 --> 00:42:08,568
Iraq, [inaudible]."
I said, "Hey, I was in Iraq.
771
00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:10,695
I was your Cobra air support."
772
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:13,698
He said, "Oh, Ma'am, you...
you fly Cobras?
773
00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:15,908
We were in the cemetery.
We were pinned down.
774
00:42:15,992 --> 00:42:18,036
A Cobra came in,
shot a missile."
775
00:42:18,119 --> 00:42:21,039
I was like, wait a minute. That
sounds like a mission I was on.
776
00:42:21,122 --> 00:42:24,876
Paired it up. Same mission.
Same aircraft. Same missile.
777
00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:27,420
And we start hooping and hollering
right there in the middle of the hospital.
778
00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:33,176
And then he just stopped. And he
said, "Ma'am, you saved my life."
779
00:42:33,259 --> 00:42:37,722
[somber music playing]
780
00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:54,197
[light music playing]
781
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,657
[Whitney] Just a few years ago,
782
00:42:56,741 --> 00:42:59,952
Shaesta Waiz was a student at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
783
00:43:00,036 --> 00:43:04,749
Now the Afghanistan-born pilot is
flying this plane around the world
784
00:43:04,832 --> 00:43:07,418
She's aiming to be
the youngest woman ever
785
00:43:07,502 --> 00:43:09,796
to complete a solo
around the world flight.
786
00:43:09,879 --> 00:43:12,465
She started here
in Daytona Beach, Florida,
787
00:43:12,548 --> 00:43:16,385
and plans to make 34 stops
including those in Europe,
788
00:43:16,469 --> 00:43:19,889
Egypt, India, Thailand,
and Australia.
789
00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:23,184
Just three percent
of the world's pilots are women
790
00:43:23,267 --> 00:43:27,396
and it's something Shaesta Waiz
and the industry are hoping to change.
791
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,693
She hopes it will inspire the next
generation of female pilots to soar.
792
00:43:32,777 --> 00:43:35,113
Whitney Hearst, Al Jazeera.
793
00:43:35,571 --> 00:43:39,283
When I told my family that I first
wanted to fly around the world,
794
00:43:39,367 --> 00:43:43,371
it was a lot of,
"Great, I hope it works out."
795
00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:45,331
You know, in the back
of their minds, they thought,
796
00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:47,125
"Well, she's young.
797
00:43:47,208 --> 00:43:50,419
This is an ambition that
every pilot must want to do,"
798
00:43:50,503 --> 00:43:52,380
and they didn't really
take it serious.
799
00:43:52,463 --> 00:43:55,508
When they saw other people
investing in me,
800
00:43:55,591 --> 00:43:59,512
and this dream that I had, that's
when they realized "This is...
801
00:43:59,595 --> 00:44:01,597
this is something
she is going to pursue."
802
00:44:01,722 --> 00:44:04,433
I wanted to do something
for those girls,
803
00:44:04,517 --> 00:44:07,395
for girls all over the world,
to show them that,
804
00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:09,772
you know,
no matter where you come,
805
00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:15,903
what background you are from,
you can excel, you can soar.
806
00:44:16,445 --> 00:44:19,115
Now, an Afghan pilot hoping
to become the youngest woman
807
00:44:19,198 --> 00:44:22,493
in history to complete
a solo run around the world
808
00:44:22,577 --> 00:44:25,580
just took on the trans-Atlantic
leg of her journey.
809
00:44:26,122 --> 00:44:28,040
[woman 3]
She wants to be an inspiration.
810
00:44:28,124 --> 00:44:32,086
And, in Afghanistan, Shaesta
Waiz is welcomed as a hero.
811
00:44:32,170 --> 00:44:35,756
She inspires Afghan girls to
have big dreams for their future
812
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,550
and to do something
about those dreams.
813
00:44:37,633 --> 00:44:40,136
Like me, I want to be a pilot.
814
00:44:40,219 --> 00:44:42,763
Waiz says she plans to have
events like this at most of her 30 stops
815
00:44:42,847 --> 00:44:44,891
around the world
to encourage young people,
816
00:44:44,974 --> 00:44:47,852
especially women and girls
to get involved in science,
817
00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:49,812
technology, engineering,
and math.
818
00:44:49,896 --> 00:44:51,814
If she completes the journey,
819
00:44:51,898 --> 00:44:54,650
Waiz will become only the
eighth woman ever to fly solo
820
00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:57,028
around the world
and the first Afghan.
821
00:44:57,111 --> 00:45:01,908
Dreams Soar global flight consisted
of 145 days flying around the world,
822
00:45:01,991 --> 00:45:05,912
25,000 nautical miles
across five continents.
823
00:45:05,995 --> 00:45:09,582
I had the chance of visiting
22 different countries,
824
00:45:09,665 --> 00:45:15,379
but most importantly it was me
meeting with 3,000 children face to face
825
00:45:15,463 --> 00:45:18,341
and introducing them
to aviation and STEM.
826
00:45:18,799 --> 00:45:23,221
My co-pilot was a 59-gallon
aluminum fuel tank,
827
00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:26,766
uh, and my passengers,
all those backseats removed,
828
00:45:26,849 --> 00:45:31,479
and it was a 125-gallon fuel tank
that sat right directly behind me.
829
00:45:31,938 --> 00:45:35,608
Um, my seat was pretty stiff.
I couldn't incline my seat back.
830
00:45:35,691 --> 00:45:40,029
It was just, you know, this... this
small area that I had to work with
831
00:45:40,112 --> 00:45:42,990
and to get in
and outside of the aircraft,
832
00:45:43,074 --> 00:45:45,493
the Bonanza
only has one side door
833
00:45:45,576 --> 00:45:47,828
that's located
on the co-pilot's seat.
834
00:45:47,912 --> 00:45:53,084
So I literally had to jump over my
co-pilot fuel tank to get into my seat
835
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:57,046
and, uh... and that's how I flew
around the world.
836
00:45:57,129 --> 00:46:02,218
In total, I carried 300 gallons
of Avgas, aviation gasoline.
837
00:46:02,301 --> 00:46:06,180
And, uh, my longest leg
where I needed that much fuel
838
00:46:06,264 --> 00:46:10,059
was across the Pacific Ocean
from Hawaii to California.
839
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:16,983
It was 14.5 hours of being in the
same position over the Big Blue,
840
00:46:17,066 --> 00:46:19,944
the big Pacific Ocean,
by myself.
841
00:46:20,027 --> 00:46:23,614
There was a very thick,
overcast layer that came over
842
00:46:23,698 --> 00:46:27,076
uh, and the sun
had set behind me.
843
00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:31,539
So for about three hours, I was in
complete lFR weather conditions
844
00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:34,917
where it felt like my aircraft
was not moving
845
00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:38,421
uh, because I had no references
outside to look at.
846
00:46:38,504 --> 00:46:43,009
So I just kept my eyes inside the
cockpit looking at my... my instruments.
847
00:46:43,092 --> 00:46:46,595
And I just remember when
I saw that San Francisco coast,
848
00:46:46,679 --> 00:46:50,975
I was just dancing on my seat,
like, yes, I see land.
849
00:46:51,058 --> 00:46:52,601
[tranquil music playing]
850
00:46:52,685 --> 00:46:54,520
An Afghan pilot has made history
851
00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:57,231
by becoming the youngest woman
to complete a solo flight
852
00:46:57,315 --> 00:46:59,650
around the world
in a single-engine aircraft.
853
00:46:59,734 --> 00:47:04,447
Shaesta Waiz completed a
25,000-mile or 40,000-kilometer journey
854
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:09,160
after landing her Beechcraft Bonanza
A36 Aircraft in Florida, October 4th.
855
00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:11,495
For United News International,
I'm Neela Eyuni.
856
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:17,001
I hope that you know that your legacy will
be measured in the service of every woman
857
00:47:17,084 --> 00:47:20,129
who follows in the trails
that you've blazed.
858
00:47:20,212 --> 00:47:24,717
Every woman who benefits from
your daring and determination.
859
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:29,597
Uh, it will be measured in the inspiration
that you provide to our daughters
860
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:34,435
and our granddaughters and to
our sons and our grandsons as well.
861
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:37,563
When they ask
what kind of jobs they can do,
862
00:47:37,646 --> 00:47:39,899
they can look to women
like all of you
863
00:47:39,982 --> 00:47:43,152
who've played just about
every kind of role imaginable.
864
00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:48,074
They can look to Tammy Duckworth
who flew combat missions in Iraq
865
00:47:48,157 --> 00:47:52,578
and lost both her legs when her
helicopter was hit by a grenade.
866
00:47:52,661 --> 00:47:56,749
She went on to become a fearless
advocate for veterans and wounded warriors
867
00:47:56,832 --> 00:48:01,921
and now serves as Assistant Secretary
of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
868
00:48:02,004 --> 00:48:04,131
at the Veterans Affairs
Department.
869
00:48:04,215 --> 00:48:05,508
Thank you, Tammy.
870
00:48:05,591 --> 00:48:07,593
[applause]
871
00:48:07,676 --> 00:48:11,389
In Iraq, um, I was the
assistant operations officer.
872
00:48:11,472 --> 00:48:17,353
My job was to coordinate missions for
our battalion task force of 44 aircraft.
873
00:48:17,436 --> 00:48:19,522
And then I also begged
and pleaded
874
00:48:19,605 --> 00:48:22,483
and wheedled my way into
getting to fly twice a week,
875
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:24,276
which was the best part
of my job.
876
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,695
It was important to me
to fly the missions
877
00:48:26,779 --> 00:48:30,574
because I didn't want to be sending other
pilots out on missions outside the wire
878
00:48:30,658 --> 00:48:33,577
and facing a danger
if I wasn't also doing it
879
00:48:33,661 --> 00:48:36,580
but also because I
just loved to fly. [laughs]
880
00:48:36,664 --> 00:48:39,166
And it was freedom
and it was exhilarating.
881
00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:43,796
And, and the more I... the more
time I spent in the military flying,
882
00:48:43,879 --> 00:48:47,258
the more I realized I'm a little bit of an
adrenaline junkie and a speed demon.
883
00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:49,552
And... and, I got to do that,
884
00:48:49,635 --> 00:48:54,682
and... and being with my guys and
the aircraft, um, was just the best,
885
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,017
most rewarding thing I have
ever done in my entire life.
886
00:48:57,101 --> 00:48:59,145
And so I wanted to do that.
887
00:48:59,228 --> 00:49:02,148
And, um, it was just a regular
mission on a regular day.
888
00:49:02,231 --> 00:49:06,444
I'd been flying all day long,
um, and we got hit by the enemy.
889
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:09,738
This was about the timeframe of
the Second Battle for Fallujah.
890
00:49:09,822 --> 00:49:13,451
So it was a pretty rough time and we were
outside a little ways away from Fallujah
891
00:49:13,534 --> 00:49:16,745
and what got me was some insurgents
who had been flushed out of Fallujah.
892
00:49:16,829 --> 00:49:20,166
And they, uh... they... they got
lucky and they shot us down.
893
00:49:20,249 --> 00:49:22,251
Um, I was passing in and out
894
00:49:22,334 --> 00:49:23,836
but we were able
to land the aircraft.
895
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:27,715
If I helped any, urn, uh,
then that's great.
896
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:30,217
But really the pilot in command,
897
00:49:30,301 --> 00:49:34,638
um, Chief Warrant Officer Dan Milberg is the
true hero of the day, and got me to safety.
898
00:49:34,722 --> 00:49:38,559
And then I spent 13 months in the hospital
recovering trying to get back to my unit.
899
00:49:38,642 --> 00:49:43,481
I learned to take calculated
risks and not to be afraid of failure
900
00:49:43,564 --> 00:49:47,318
when I went through the
military, that's the biggest thing.
901
00:49:47,401 --> 00:49:51,280
Prior to the military, I probab...
I tended to be a perfectionist.
902
00:49:51,363 --> 00:49:54,116
And I would not have taken
the risk that I didn't know,
903
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,660
I could definitely ace
and achieve,
904
00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:59,788
uh, and going to flights, it was
the first thing I ever really did
905
00:49:59,872 --> 00:50:02,500
that was, uh, I didn't know if I
was going to be able to do it.
906
00:50:02,583 --> 00:50:06,253
But I knew I was going to try and I
knew that I knew how to work hard.
907
00:50:06,337 --> 00:50:10,508
Uh, I was by no means the
best natural pilot in my class.
908
00:50:10,591 --> 00:50:13,719
But I logged more simulator
hours than anybody in my class
909
00:50:13,802 --> 00:50:16,805
because I would fly
the entire day.
910
00:50:16,889 --> 00:50:19,266
And then I would go fly three
additional hours every night,
911
00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:23,646
uh, and then just to make sure I
was as competitive as I could be,
912
00:50:23,729 --> 00:50:25,814
and I knew how to work hard.
913
00:50:25,898 --> 00:50:28,526
I actually ended up serving 13
more years after I lost my legs.
914
00:50:28,609 --> 00:50:32,238
Um, when Senator Durbin
and Senator Obama came to me
915
00:50:32,321 --> 00:50:34,198
and said, "We think
you should run for Congress,"
916
00:50:34,281 --> 00:50:37,576
I had that foundation
of willingness to try
917
00:50:37,660 --> 00:50:41,914
and knowing that no matter what
happened, I knew how to work hard.
918
00:50:41,997 --> 00:50:45,501
And if I didn't achieve what I was trying
that would be okay and I didn't, I lost.
919
00:50:45,584 --> 00:50:47,670
I lost that election.
920
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:49,797
It was devastating to me but I
knew I gave it everything that I had.
921
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,801
And so I was able to walk away
from that holding my head high,
922
00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:58,681
um, which I think gave me the strength
to, six years later, try another run.
923
00:50:58,764 --> 00:51:03,936
We are just as proud of all the
Thai-Americans who enrich our country.
924
00:51:04,019 --> 00:51:10,985
In fact, I was mentioning to His Majesty,
that my friend, uh, Ladda Tammy Duckworth,
925
00:51:11,068 --> 00:51:16,240
just became the first Thai-American
woman ever to be elected to our Congress.
926
00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:20,077
And she's from my home state of
Illinois, so I'm especially proud of her.
927
00:51:31,672 --> 00:51:35,301
[man 9] Kennedy Space Center
native, Nicole Stott who worked here,
928
00:51:35,384 --> 00:51:38,762
processing shuttles for many
years before becoming an astronaut.
929
00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:40,639
She is Mission Specialist 4.
930
00:51:40,723 --> 00:51:42,266
[crowd cheering]
931
00:51:42,349 --> 00:51:44,768
[man 10] This is a very
historical walkway.
932
00:51:44,852 --> 00:51:47,980
It's the same path that the Apollo
astronauts took to go to the Moon.
933
00:51:48,063 --> 00:51:52,985
And over the last 30 years,
there's been 133 odd shuttle crews
934
00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:55,654
that walked out here
to catch this bus
935
00:51:55,738 --> 00:51:58,824
for the exciting ride out
to the launch pad.
936
00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:01,160
All systems are go.
937
00:52:01,243 --> 00:52:03,954
About 90 seconds away from the
launch of Space Shuttle Discovery
938
00:52:04,038 --> 00:52:05,539
on her final mission.
939
00:52:05,623 --> 00:52:07,916
-[man 11] 20.
-[man 10] 20 seconds.
940
00:52:08,876 --> 00:52:10,961
The sound suppression
water system
941
00:52:11,712 --> 00:52:13,672
has been activated
protecting Discovery
942
00:52:13,756 --> 00:52:16,800
and the launch pad
from acoustical energy wave.
943
00:52:16,884 --> 00:52:19,053
[man 11] We'll have to go
for main engine start.
944
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:23,098
[man 10] Go for main engine
start. We have main engine start.
945
00:52:23,891 --> 00:52:26,060
Two, one.
946
00:52:26,518 --> 00:52:30,064
Booster ignition and
the final lift-off of Discovery.
947
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,441
A tribute to the dedication,
hard work,
948
00:52:32,524 --> 00:52:35,110
and pride of America's
Space Shuttle team.
949
00:52:35,194 --> 00:52:37,488
The shuttle
has cleared the tower.
950
00:52:38,697 --> 00:52:40,824
[hissing]
951
00:52:40,908 --> 00:52:42,826
[man 12]
This is Mission Control Houston.
952
00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:44,578
The space shuttle
now rolled over on to its back
953
00:52:44,662 --> 00:52:46,497
for they have been arrived
into orbit.
954
00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:50,167
Discovery now making
one last reach for the stars.
955
00:52:57,424 --> 00:52:59,259
[calm music playing]
956
00:52:59,343 --> 00:53:01,804
I didn't get selected
that first time.
957
00:53:01,887 --> 00:53:03,889
Uh, and I was upset.
958
00:53:03,972 --> 00:53:07,976
I mean, I remember being upset
about it, but it wasn't surprising to me.
959
00:53:08,060 --> 00:53:11,021
Um, and, but I didn't find it
discouraging either.
960
00:53:11,105 --> 00:53:13,232
I found it like, okay,
you went through this.
961
00:53:13,315 --> 00:53:14,983
And now, two years from now,
962
00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:17,111
they will do another selection,
apply again.
963
00:53:17,820 --> 00:53:20,072
But I also got really lucky
that first time
964
00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:23,992
because they offered me a job
out at the Johnson Space Center
965
00:53:24,076 --> 00:53:27,413
uh, flying on the shuttle training
aircraft as a flight engineer.
966
00:53:27,496 --> 00:53:30,416
So I was going to get to sit
center seat in this airplane
967
00:53:30,499 --> 00:53:33,585
that's modified like you wouldn't
want any airplane to be modified.
968
00:53:33,669 --> 00:53:37,381
So it could, you know, approach
the runway like a space shuttle does
969
00:53:37,464 --> 00:53:41,176
with an astronaut in the left
seat that you're training
970
00:53:41,301 --> 00:53:43,762
and the instructor pilot
in the right seat
971
00:53:43,846 --> 00:53:47,266
and I was going to get to be like the flight
engineer would be on the space shuttle.
972
00:53:47,349 --> 00:53:49,101
And it was awesome.
973
00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:51,645
It was exactly like the kinds of
things you would have to do
974
00:53:51,729 --> 00:53:53,230
if you were flying
on a space shuttle.
975
00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:57,317
And two years later, I interviewed
again and was selected.
976
00:53:57,401 --> 00:53:59,862
I don't ever remember
being afraid.
977
00:53:59,945 --> 00:54:01,822
I remember being
very respectful,
978
00:54:01,905 --> 00:54:04,450
very, you know, acknowledging,
979
00:54:04,533 --> 00:54:08,537
uh, the place I was,
what I was about to do.
980
00:54:08,620 --> 00:54:10,706
Uh, but I also felt
very trained.
981
00:54:10,789 --> 00:54:17,296
The fear for me was more about,
how... What my family was experiencing.
982
00:54:17,379 --> 00:54:21,592
Because I know it's a lot more
difficult to watch somebody strapped
983
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:26,430
into a rocket to fly than it is
to be the person strapping in.
984
00:54:26,513 --> 00:54:29,433
My first time flying,
my son was seven,
985
00:54:29,516 --> 00:54:33,061
and the idea of something
happening to him on Earth
986
00:54:33,145 --> 00:54:35,230
and not being able to get there.
987
00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:41,361
That's where like, fear and maybe
a little of the stress of it was for me.
988
00:54:42,988 --> 00:54:45,115
So I had the chance to talk
to a lot of people
989
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:48,619
who had flown before to watch
a lot of space shuttle launches.
990
00:54:48,702 --> 00:54:52,581
So, in my mind, I had kind of convinced
myself that I knew what it would be like.
991
00:54:53,165 --> 00:54:54,666
You just can't prepare
yourself for it.
992
00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:56,460
And I did it a second time
thinking,
993
00:54:56,543 --> 00:54:58,587
oh, I did that before, you know,
now I know what it's like.
994
00:54:58,670 --> 00:55:01,089
Well, it's like you're doing it
all over again.
995
00:55:01,173 --> 00:55:03,383
And as a shuttle crew,
996
00:55:03,467 --> 00:55:06,970
you would get out there to the
pad a couple of hours before launch.
997
00:55:07,054 --> 00:55:10,641
And you'd get all strapped in, you're,
you know, you're laying on your back
998
00:55:10,724 --> 00:55:12,976
because the vehicle
is facing up.
999
00:55:13,060 --> 00:55:17,439
And it really though for the crew wasn't
until about 20 minutes before launch
1000
00:55:17,523 --> 00:55:20,567
that you would actively
get involved with the countdown.
1001
00:55:20,651 --> 00:55:23,529
Six seconds is where all this
fuel and that big orange tank
1002
00:55:23,612 --> 00:55:26,907
would start flow into the three main
engines at the back of the shuttle.
1003
00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:30,118
And I always thought
that would be really dynamic.
1004
00:55:30,202 --> 00:55:32,371
I thought I'd be shaking
all over the place with that.
1005
00:55:32,454 --> 00:55:35,082
I thought it would be
really loud. But it wasn't.
1006
00:55:35,165 --> 00:55:40,587
It was more kind of a just like
muffly sound, uh, in the headset
1007
00:55:40,671 --> 00:55:42,923
and a little bit of vibration
1008
00:55:43,465 --> 00:55:48,387
and at zero, that's when those
two big white solid rocket boosters lit.
1009
00:55:48,470 --> 00:55:51,640
And that was the "Holy molly,
was I ever on a launch pad."
1010
00:55:51,723 --> 00:55:54,059
You know, you're felt like
you were kicked from behind.
1011
00:55:54,142 --> 00:55:57,479
It felt like, all of a sudden, three of
you are starting to crawl on top of you.
1012
00:55:57,563 --> 00:56:01,942
You're shaking like, I mean,
it... I've watched the cockpit video.
1013
00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:04,611
It does not show what,
I mean, it shows shaking
1014
00:56:04,695 --> 00:56:06,488
but it does not show
what you were feeling.
1015
00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:09,032
I mean, it felt like Jell-O
inside the way you're shaking.
1016
00:56:09,116 --> 00:56:12,786
Uh, the first minute and a half
of a shuttle launch,
1017
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:15,080
all the crew can really do
is monitor,
1018
00:56:15,163 --> 00:56:17,291
you know, monitor their systems
on the display.
1019
00:56:17,374 --> 00:56:20,252
You know, about two and a half
minutes later, the booster separate.
1020
00:56:20,335 --> 00:56:23,547
And they do that not gracefully.
It's a big bang, a big flash.
1021
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:25,799
[hissing]
1022
00:56:25,883 --> 00:56:26,758
[explodes]
1023
00:56:28,051 --> 00:56:30,262
And then,
all that vibration goes away
1024
00:56:30,345 --> 00:56:33,557
but you still feel like you have
three of you sitting on top of you.
1025
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:38,020
And for another about six minutes,
um, then the tank separates.
1026
00:56:38,103 --> 00:56:40,355
Another big bang, big flash.
1027
00:56:40,439 --> 00:56:46,111
And then you go from shaking, weighted
down to just kind of like liberated.
1028
00:56:46,194 --> 00:56:49,364
Your, you know, from zero
to eight and a half minutes,
1029
00:56:49,448 --> 00:56:55,787
you've gone from being on that launch pad to
orbiting the planet at 17,500 miles an hour,
1030
00:56:55,871 --> 00:56:58,290
and just floating.
1031
00:56:58,373 --> 00:57:00,083
I mean, your arms float up.
1032
00:57:00,167 --> 00:57:02,210
Your pencil floats up
on the end of the tether.
1033
00:57:02,294 --> 00:57:05,130
Anything that's not tied down
is floating up around you
1034
00:57:05,213 --> 00:57:08,634
and you just absolutely can't
wait to get out of the seat
1035
00:57:08,717 --> 00:57:11,178
and see what it's going
to be like to... to fly,
1036
00:57:11,261 --> 00:57:14,681
I mean, literally fly yourself
in space.
1037
00:57:14,765 --> 00:57:19,353
That first view out the window is,
uh, actually I would say every view.
1038
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:21,396
Every time you had the
opportunity to look out the window
1039
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,316
it's...
it's just like launch was.
1040
00:57:24,399 --> 00:57:26,985
It's overwhelmingly impressive
1041
00:57:27,069 --> 00:57:30,113
and in different ways
than launch was for sure
1042
00:57:30,197 --> 00:57:34,326
but just in this kind of
like beautiful, unexpected,
1043
00:57:34,409 --> 00:57:38,830
going to surprise you every
time, glowing planet kind of way.
1044
00:57:38,914 --> 00:57:43,001
And it's another one of those things
where I looked at a lot of pictures.
1045
00:57:43,085 --> 00:57:44,920
I looked at a lot of video.
1046
00:57:45,003 --> 00:57:48,590
I talked to people about that,
you know, view out the window
1047
00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:53,136
but nothing prepares you
for what it really is like.
1048
00:57:53,679 --> 00:57:58,684
And it stays with you.
1049
00:57:58,767 --> 00:58:01,895
It's, I mean, I think about that
first flight in the airplane,
1050
00:58:01,979 --> 00:58:04,690
where, you know, where those
first flights in airplanes
1051
00:58:04,773 --> 00:58:09,987
where you really are appreciating,
uh, from a totally new perspective,
1052
00:58:10,070 --> 00:58:14,241
you know, who and where you are,
uh, by separating from it.
1053
00:58:14,324 --> 00:58:19,121
And... and, that's what I felt
like all the time in space was,
1054
00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:23,208
wow, I'm really, I am blessed with
this gift that's allowing me to consider,
1055
00:58:23,291 --> 00:58:28,964
you know, who I am and where I am
from in a whole new really special way.
1056
00:58:29,047 --> 00:58:30,966
The space station program to me
1057
00:58:31,049 --> 00:58:34,970
has been just the best example
1058
00:58:35,053 --> 00:58:38,849
of how we should be living and
working here on Spaceship Earth,
1059
00:58:38,932 --> 00:58:41,852
and how we should be
encouraging people to,
1060
00:58:41,935 --> 00:58:45,605
you know, acknowledge their role
as crew members on Spaceship Earth
1061
00:58:45,689 --> 00:58:47,441
and not just be passengers.
1062
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:52,446
[man 13] Space Shuttle Discovery now on
final approach to the Kennedy Space Center.
1063
00:58:52,946 --> 00:58:55,073
Just more than 30 seconds to go.
1064
00:58:55,157 --> 00:58:59,494
[tranquil music playing]
1065
00:59:05,792 --> 00:59:07,836
Discovery here is down
and locked.
1066
00:59:19,473 --> 00:59:21,683
[inaudible] touchdown.
1067
00:59:21,767 --> 00:59:24,811
The nose of the shuttle being
rotated down toward the flight deck.
1068
00:59:24,895 --> 00:59:26,938
The parachute being deployed.
1069
00:59:30,525 --> 00:59:34,446
And nose gear touchdown and
the end of a historic journey.
1070
00:59:34,529 --> 00:59:38,116
And to the ship that has led
the way time and time again,
1071
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,494
we say farewell Discovery.
1072
00:59:51,838 --> 00:59:52,839
[door closes]
1073
00:59:54,257 --> 00:59:56,551
It's just, I feel like
I'm floating and I'm free.
1074
00:59:56,676 --> 00:59:59,554
It's kind of
and it's relaxing sometimes.
1075
01:00:02,474 --> 01:00:03,850
It's not the same
as a real plane,
1076
01:00:03,934 --> 01:00:07,437
but the simulator
does have some benefits.
1077
01:00:07,521 --> 01:00:09,523
It's not like you have
to look book of flight.
1078
01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:16,571
I'm about to do a barrel, um,
through Tampa, Downtown Tampa.
1079
01:00:17,739 --> 01:00:21,576
The plane doesn't judge me on
how tiny I am or if I'm a girl.
1080
01:00:22,494 --> 01:00:28,834
[clacking]
1081
01:00:28,917 --> 01:00:32,170
Nobody in my family
was in aviation at all.
1082
01:00:33,130 --> 01:00:34,005
Just me.
1083
01:00:35,132 --> 01:00:37,008
Neither one of us
are from the aviation field.
1084
01:00:37,092 --> 01:00:40,011
So I'm like,
I'm not really sure here.
1085
01:00:40,095 --> 01:00:45,517
So, I mean, it was, you know,
internet search or anytime like I read,
1086
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:51,356
"Oh, there's a, you know, an
air show over here at this field."
1087
01:00:51,439 --> 01:00:53,233
We go to the air show.
1088
01:00:53,316 --> 01:00:58,446
Uh, if there is a movie that
comes out, we watch the movie.
1089
01:00:58,530 --> 01:01:01,908
If there is a, um, book,
we read the book.
1090
01:01:01,992 --> 01:01:08,623
Uh, we've gone and listened to talks
from astronauts and such at museums.
1091
01:01:08,748 --> 01:01:12,419
Um, so we do
just about anything.
1092
01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:15,797
Most people don't get interested
in aviation.
1093
01:01:15,881 --> 01:01:19,176
They just think, "Oh, it's an
airplane. It gives you travel."
1094
01:01:19,259 --> 01:01:21,052
But it's more than that.
1095
01:01:21,511 --> 01:01:24,806
My friends think it's kind of weird
because none of them want to be a pilot.
1096
01:01:24,890 --> 01:01:27,809
None of them have
anything to do with it at all,
1097
01:01:27,893 --> 01:01:34,274
so, like, some of them just want to
play like video games or, heh, something.
1098
01:01:35,108 --> 01:01:40,363
And I want to fly airplanes not on
a video game, like a real airplane.
1099
01:01:41,323 --> 01:01:43,450
I don't think they're not
interested in aviation.
1100
01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:45,243
I don't think
they get the chance.
1101
01:01:45,327 --> 01:01:48,205
They think, "Oh, I'm a girl.
I can't do that."
1102
01:01:48,288 --> 01:01:49,831
She doesn't let anything
stop her.
1103
01:01:49,915 --> 01:01:52,417
She usually will go, huh.
1104
01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:55,253
I get this is difficult
but I can do it.
1105
01:01:55,337 --> 01:01:59,549
And she usually just takes a deep
breath and just keeps on going.
1106
01:02:01,426 --> 01:02:03,303
Aviation has given me
so many opportunities,
1107
01:02:03,386 --> 01:02:05,555
um, and it does to every pilot.
1108
01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:07,849
It's just amazing
where it has taken me.
1109
01:02:07,933 --> 01:02:12,020
I have had opportunities to go train the
Kenya Wildlife Service pilots in Kenya.
1110
01:02:12,103 --> 01:02:14,397
It's been incredibly rewarding
working with these pilots.
1111
01:02:14,481 --> 01:02:15,899
I've gotten to be really
good friends with them,
1112
01:02:15,982 --> 01:02:17,984
and I've traveled
all over Kenya.
1113
01:02:18,068 --> 01:02:20,362
The thing that I'm doing now
that I'm really, really excited about
1114
01:02:20,445 --> 01:02:22,572
and I just love to go
to work every day
1115
01:02:22,656 --> 01:02:26,117
and do is, um, our aerobatic
school here in St. Augustine, Florida.
1116
01:02:26,201 --> 01:02:28,703
I am finding that I love it more
than almost anything I've done.
1117
01:02:28,787 --> 01:02:30,622
It's just... It's been great.
1118
01:02:30,705 --> 01:02:33,250
[Nicole] I had the chance
to paint while I was in space.
1119
01:02:33,333 --> 01:02:37,379
And I painted a picture of a place that
I thought was really beautiful on Earth.
1120
01:02:37,462 --> 01:02:40,090
Uh, the whole experience
of watercolor painting in space
1121
01:02:40,173 --> 01:02:42,717
is a little bit different, you know,
with floating balls of water bursts
1122
01:02:42,801 --> 01:02:45,428
versus dip in your, you know,
your brush in a glass.
1123
01:02:45,512 --> 01:02:48,515
And when I was thinking
about retiring from NASA,
1124
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:53,937
but wanting, really wanting to uniquely
share the spaceflight experience,
1125
01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:56,106
I kept coming back
to that painting.
1126
01:02:56,189 --> 01:02:58,108
And that one painting
has led to others,
1127
01:02:58,191 --> 01:03:01,945
you know, and I am doing art now
as a post-NASA person.
1128
01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:04,906
So about two months
before my commercial rating,
1129
01:03:04,990 --> 01:03:08,118
I started to ask
all the businesses
1130
01:03:08,201 --> 01:03:11,329
around Santa Monica Airport
if they were hiring.
1131
01:03:11,413 --> 01:03:15,083
Cirrus was just creating a job
called a regional sales coordinator
1132
01:03:15,166 --> 01:03:17,544
that moved airplanes
for new customers
1133
01:03:17,627 --> 01:03:20,463
and gave demo flights
to support the sale staff.
1134
01:03:20,547 --> 01:03:24,259
I got hired on my commercial
rating on my birthday
1135
01:03:24,342 --> 01:03:27,762
and I even launched a company,
um, called the Abingdon Company.
1136
01:03:27,887 --> 01:03:30,181
As I was doing this,
1137
01:03:30,265 --> 01:03:33,101
this job of moving all these airplanes
for Cirrus which I did for two years,
1138
01:03:33,184 --> 01:03:35,520
I really realized
that ferrying airplanes
1139
01:03:35,603 --> 01:03:38,898
and delivering them to customers
was just a passion of mine.
1140
01:03:38,982 --> 01:03:42,277
It's so much fun
to take a small airplane,
1141
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:46,156
test your limits as a pilot
and expand your comfort zone
1142
01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:48,283
and fly it across
the Pacific Ocean.
1143
01:03:48,366 --> 01:03:52,245
I love aviation because
it's a whole different world.
1144
01:03:52,329 --> 01:03:55,206
It's some place
that's so like a family,
1145
01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:57,292
but it can take you anywhere
in the world.
1146
01:03:57,375 --> 01:04:01,796
And the more I'm in it, the more I
see that there's more people to know,
1147
01:04:01,921 --> 01:04:04,591
there's more things to see,
there's more experiences.
1148
01:04:04,674 --> 01:04:08,678
So becoming a pilot and working
as a pilot, especially an airline pilot,
1149
01:04:08,762 --> 01:04:13,099
you get to basically be wherever you
end up and explore the whole world.
1150
01:04:13,183 --> 01:04:15,143
You don't really see
borders anymore.
1151
01:04:15,226 --> 01:04:18,438
You just kind of see the whole
world as a place to explore.
1152
01:04:19,439 --> 01:04:23,443
Something that I do worry a lot
about with having a goal
1153
01:04:23,526 --> 01:04:26,654
or a dream that's this big
and this far out in the future,
1154
01:04:26,738 --> 01:04:30,033
is what if I end up
20 years down the road from here
1155
01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:31,785
and I wasn't an astronaut?
1156
01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:33,453
I don't regret it now.
1157
01:04:33,536 --> 01:04:35,288
I can't imagine that
I'll regret it in the future
1158
01:04:35,372 --> 01:04:39,376
because this pursuit of becoming
an astronaut, of going to Mars,
1159
01:04:39,459 --> 01:04:43,588
has led me to have so many
fantastic experiences in my life.
1160
01:04:43,671 --> 01:04:46,966
The idea that it might happen
makes it all worth it.
1161
01:04:51,971 --> 01:04:55,975
[tranquil music playing]
1162
01:05:24,087 --> 01:05:28,633
[Vernice] The important thing about what women
did early on in the whole aviation field,
1163
01:05:28,716 --> 01:05:31,219
in the industry
is they stood up,
1164
01:05:31,302 --> 01:05:34,097
you know, I will often say
a quote, you know, stand up
1165
01:05:34,180 --> 01:05:36,724
and be counted because you
never know who's counting on you.
1166
01:05:36,808 --> 01:05:38,768
They didn't know
I would be counting on them.
1167
01:05:39,227 --> 01:05:42,772
A lot of women, they wanted to
prove that, you know, they could do it,
1168
01:05:42,856 --> 01:05:47,193
that they had just as much right
to do it as the men did.
1169
01:05:47,819 --> 01:05:51,322
[Shaezta] Some of the barriers
that women faced early on in aviation
1170
01:05:51,406 --> 01:05:56,703
is really proving that they can be in
command and they can make decisions.
1171
01:05:56,786 --> 01:05:59,831
They can be around machines
and engines.
1172
01:05:59,914 --> 01:06:03,001
And I think, um,
it was a struggle back then
1173
01:06:03,084 --> 01:06:07,130
to change this perception
that the world had of women.
1174
01:06:07,922 --> 01:06:11,384
[Heather] And, you know, aviation at
that time was such a dangerous adventure.
1175
01:06:11,468 --> 01:06:13,928
Planes were new.
Technology was new.
1176
01:06:14,012 --> 01:06:16,014
You didn't know what was going to happen,
what was going to go wrong at any moment.
1177
01:06:16,097 --> 01:06:21,561
So for them to be willing to
take that risk on top of being told,
1178
01:06:21,644 --> 01:06:23,813
"Oh, you're a girl, you can't
be doing that kind of thing."
1179
01:06:23,897 --> 01:06:26,191
And it was really,
really phenomenal.
1180
01:06:26,274 --> 01:06:29,402
They had to really have this
amazing mental strength
1181
01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:32,071
to kind of put themselves
out there
1182
01:06:32,155 --> 01:06:36,409
with the unfortunate result of having to
be compared to their male counterparts.
1183
01:06:36,493 --> 01:06:39,537
There were men at the time
that were supporting of them.
1184
01:06:39,621 --> 01:06:42,624
Will Rogers, Wiley Post,
Amelia Earhart's husband,
1185
01:06:42,707 --> 01:06:45,084
of course, was very supportive
of women flying.
1186
01:06:45,168 --> 01:06:48,046
But there were a lot of people and not
just men that were against women flying.
1187
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:50,632
There were other women
against women flying saying,
1188
01:06:50,715 --> 01:06:54,636
"They're making us look bad and they should
be home taking care of their households."
1189
01:06:54,719 --> 01:06:57,722
Even when Bessie Coleman wanted
to fly and she couldn't fly here
1190
01:06:57,805 --> 01:07:00,725
because she was black, right?
Because black folks weren't allowed to fly.
1191
01:07:00,808 --> 01:07:05,438
She learned French and went
to France and got her license.
1192
01:07:05,522 --> 01:07:07,148
They weren't going to take no
for an answer.
1193
01:07:07,232 --> 01:07:09,442
They wanted to try something.
They saw the adventure.
1194
01:07:09,526 --> 01:07:12,487
From Harry Quimby saying, she
wanted to fly across the English Channel
1195
01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:16,199
and Pancho Barnes to say,
"No, I'm not going to put a skirt on.
1196
01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:17,450
I'm not going to put
a dress on."
1197
01:07:17,534 --> 01:07:19,202
They didn't stop at anything.
1198
01:07:19,285 --> 01:07:20,912
Those were the true pioneers.
1199
01:07:20,995 --> 01:07:24,749
Those were the women who paved
a way for girls like me
1200
01:07:24,832 --> 01:07:29,462
to envision myself in aviation
such a male-dominated industry.
1201
01:07:30,004 --> 01:07:32,507
Some of the harassment
that they went through.
1202
01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:35,218
I mean, I can't, honestly, I can't even imagine
some of the things that they went through.
1203
01:07:35,301 --> 01:07:42,100
I am able to walk down the trail because they
blazed it and that's just pretty amazing.
1204
01:07:42,183 --> 01:07:46,604
Women have played an important
role in aviation and aerospace history.
1205
01:07:46,688 --> 01:07:50,650
Since the beginning, the early
fliers, even from Katharine Wright,
1206
01:07:50,733 --> 01:07:53,236
you know, through Amelia Earhart
and Bessie Coleman, you know,
1207
01:07:53,319 --> 01:07:56,698
they served as inspiration for the
women that were in the air races
1208
01:07:56,781 --> 01:08:01,494
who then served for inspiration for the
women who became the WASP in World War ll.
1209
01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:07,500
Every generation is laying the foundation
for the next generation to reach higher,
1210
01:08:07,584 --> 01:08:11,170
reach more goals and achieve,
you know, greater, greater dreams.
1211
01:08:11,713 --> 01:08:13,840
[Abigail] I mean,
they were groundbreakers.
1212
01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:17,635
They... they laid the path that the
rest of us are capable of walking now.
1213
01:08:17,719 --> 01:08:23,641
And if we didn't have the... the women
who were the early pioneers of aviation
1214
01:08:23,725 --> 01:08:25,935
then, I mean,
I wouldn't be flying today.
1215
01:08:26,019 --> 01:08:29,981
[dramatic music playing]
1216
01:09:23,159 --> 01:09:28,289
[upbeat music playing]
1217
01:09:36,047 --> 01:09:39,634
You work hard, Joe.
You are a good foreman.
1218
01:09:43,137 --> 01:09:46,557
Yes, women work
and do present problems, Joe.
1219
01:09:47,100 --> 01:09:50,061
It's tough, I know, but there are
thousands of others just like you,
1220
01:09:50,144 --> 01:09:53,231
all over the country
facing the same problems.
1221
01:09:53,314 --> 01:09:56,526
[Joe] Women scare me.
At least, they do in a factory.
1222
01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:59,153
Well, heh, maybe the women
are scared, too, Joe.
1223
01:10:01,114 --> 01:10:03,449
It's a totally unfamiliar world.
1224
01:10:03,533 --> 01:10:07,370
[quirky music playing]
1225
01:10:11,290 --> 01:10:17,588
You see, they're not naturally familiar
with mechanical principles nor machines.
1226
01:10:17,672 --> 01:10:19,966
It takes time
to make them feel at home.
1227
01:10:20,049 --> 01:10:22,093
But it can be done.
1228
01:10:22,176 --> 01:10:24,512
You talk like a man
who knows women.
1229
01:10:24,595 --> 01:10:27,056
We'll see, Joe. We'll see.
1230
01:10:27,140 --> 01:10:30,518
[upbeat music playing]
1231
01:10:34,230 --> 01:10:37,108
Some of the things I've heard and
misconceptions I've heard from people
1232
01:10:37,191 --> 01:10:40,570
about women in aviation is
that you can't have the family
1233
01:10:40,653 --> 01:10:43,614
and be a career woman, too.
1234
01:10:43,698 --> 01:10:46,701
Or how we... we don't know
how to fix a plane.
1235
01:10:46,784 --> 01:10:50,204
You know, the idea that
you're emasculating your husband
1236
01:10:50,329 --> 01:10:53,583
possibly if he is not interested
in flying but you are
1237
01:10:53,666 --> 01:10:55,710
because, obviously,
airplanes are made for men.
1238
01:10:55,793 --> 01:11:00,214
I mean, that's... There's so many
different social, um, etiquettes
1239
01:11:00,339 --> 01:11:02,467
that women are supposed
to abide by.
1240
01:11:02,550 --> 01:11:04,635
Even today,
if I don't get recognized
1241
01:11:04,719 --> 01:11:07,805
and I'm taxiing in somewhere in
an airplane with two people in it,
1242
01:11:07,889 --> 01:11:10,683
and I have a guy in the right
seat, and I'm in the left seat,
1243
01:11:10,767 --> 01:11:12,685
and I hear this
from other women all the time.
1244
01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:16,063
They always ask the man
in the plane for the fuel order.
1245
01:11:16,147 --> 01:11:19,525
So there's still this conception
out there and it happens all the time.
1246
01:11:19,609 --> 01:11:21,652
We still have a long way to go.
1247
01:11:21,736 --> 01:11:25,156
You know, I remember walking
into an FBO and in my flight suit
1248
01:11:25,239 --> 01:11:27,742
and they would ask me
if I was the flight attendant,
1249
01:11:27,825 --> 01:11:30,119
you know, like Air Force
on a C12 or something else
1250
01:11:30,203 --> 01:11:32,663
"No, I'm the pilot."
[laughs]
1251
01:11:32,747 --> 01:11:36,167
There was a student pilot on
the radios who was a young girl,
1252
01:11:36,250 --> 01:11:39,462
and she was struggling
and sure enough,
1253
01:11:39,545 --> 01:11:42,089
I heard someone
get on the radio and say,
1254
01:11:42,173 --> 01:11:46,219
"Another empty kitchen"
meaning here's another woman
1255
01:11:46,302 --> 01:11:50,264
who's attempting to fly rather
than being in the kitchen cooking.
1256
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:52,934
I think, girls get away
from STEM in middle school
1257
01:11:53,017 --> 01:11:55,436
because they are told to look
a certain image
1258
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,730
and stop
what they really want to be.
1259
01:11:57,814 --> 01:12:02,068
There's a societal stigma against
women being in STEM fields.
1260
01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:07,198
And it's this idea
that you can't both be feminine
1261
01:12:07,281 --> 01:12:09,242
and be in STEM fields.
1262
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:12,912
The view was that we had to be
tough and we had to be macho
1263
01:12:12,995 --> 01:12:15,289
and, you know,
come across kind of tough
1264
01:12:15,373 --> 01:12:16,916
and I still get that
when I get out of the plane,
1265
01:12:16,999 --> 01:12:19,043
they're like,
"Oh, you're so small.
1266
01:12:19,126 --> 01:12:22,296
And, um, "Oh, you know, you
wear earrings," and things like that.
1267
01:12:22,421 --> 01:12:25,299
People expect, you know...
They have this stereotype of
1268
01:12:25,424 --> 01:12:28,386
what a professional athlete or a
professional pilot should look like.
1269
01:12:28,469 --> 01:12:32,598
And... and, so it was important
to me just to be who I was.
1270
01:12:32,682 --> 01:12:37,061
Well, the first reaction
every time is, "What?
1271
01:12:37,144 --> 01:12:40,648
You're in aviation?
How is that possible?"
1272
01:12:40,731 --> 01:12:42,525
And I was like,
"Well, what do you do?"
1273
01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:45,236
And that sometimes, and I love,
one of my friends is a pilot.
1274
01:12:45,319 --> 01:12:49,407
And so it's really funny
when we go places and we fly in
1275
01:12:49,490 --> 01:12:52,034
and they're looking for the guy
who flew us there,
1276
01:12:52,118 --> 01:12:55,705
and she's like, "No, I got it. I
got the keys to the plane. It's okay.
1277
01:12:55,788 --> 01:12:57,039
We made it."
1278
01:12:58,624 --> 01:13:03,880
It's not about being the strongest
but it is about flying smart.
1279
01:13:04,463 --> 01:13:05,840
Being smart.
1280
01:13:05,923 --> 01:13:08,009
Inside the cockpit
and outside the cockpit.
1281
01:13:08,092 --> 01:13:10,636
Being efficient, delegating,
1282
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:13,556
uh, thinking about it different.
1283
01:13:13,639 --> 01:13:15,224
Not trying
to just strong-arm it,
1284
01:13:15,308 --> 01:13:19,270
but, okay, it's not
how to do more with less.
1285
01:13:19,353 --> 01:13:21,188
How do we do it differently?
1286
01:13:21,272 --> 01:13:23,941
[Nicole] The rocket ship
doesn't care if I am a boy or a girl.
1287
01:13:24,025 --> 01:13:25,776
You know,
the airplane doesn't care.
1288
01:13:25,860 --> 01:13:28,613
The robotic hand controllers
don't care.
1289
01:13:28,696 --> 01:13:34,785
And so from that sense, as long as
I can successfully learn the material
1290
01:13:34,869 --> 01:13:38,247
and complete the tasks,
that's how I thought about it.
1291
01:13:38,331 --> 01:13:42,001
Women make up, what is it,
51% of the population
1292
01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:46,923
and so if we're not encouraging
women to be in STEM fields
1293
01:13:47,006 --> 01:13:51,969
then we're losing out on 50% of the
brain power, on 50% of the creativity,
1294
01:13:52,053 --> 01:13:57,099
on 50% of the different
perspectives that we could be having.
1295
01:13:57,183 --> 01:14:00,519
The most successful work will
get done when you bring together,
1296
01:14:00,603 --> 01:14:04,815
you know, different experiences and different
backgrounds to, you know, to achieve something.
1297
01:14:04,899 --> 01:14:06,943
Whether you're a man or a woman,
you're black or white,
1298
01:14:07,026 --> 01:14:08,694
or you're a different religion,
none of that matters
1299
01:14:08,778 --> 01:14:10,613
when you get into the plane
here and there
1300
01:14:10,696 --> 01:14:13,115
like as long as you know
what you're doing.
1301
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:14,700
I don't always
want to be the only one.
1302
01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:16,702
I think, us girls should
stand up for each other
1303
01:14:16,786 --> 01:14:19,330
and be as one and support
each other in the STEM field.
1304
01:14:19,413 --> 01:14:23,709
I think, it's really, really important for
there to be a mix in aviation, men and women,
1305
01:14:23,793 --> 01:14:27,922
because women bring different
outlook, a different approach to things.
1306
01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:29,715
The airplane might not know
the difference
1307
01:14:29,799 --> 01:14:32,051
but we still have some different
approaches to things
1308
01:14:32,134 --> 01:14:36,347
and so it's really, really important
that we share that with each other,
1309
01:14:36,430 --> 01:14:40,017
that we, that our contributions
are valued.
1310
01:14:40,101 --> 01:14:42,979
Well, I think that we just
need more women in all fields.
1311
01:14:43,062 --> 01:14:46,941
We as a nation can't be globally
competitive and we can't lead the economy,
1312
01:14:47,024 --> 01:14:52,071
our military cannot be strong
depending on just 50% of our population.
1313
01:14:52,154 --> 01:14:56,117
Women are a precious commodity
in this country just as the men are
1314
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:59,912
and so why would we limit
ourselves to just half of our population?
1315
01:14:59,996 --> 01:15:01,747
If we truly
want to be competitive,
1316
01:15:01,831 --> 01:15:03,457
then we need everyone
to participate.
1317
01:15:03,582 --> 01:15:06,836
It's just important for us
to be visible.
1318
01:15:06,919 --> 01:15:12,299
So my little girl who is two years
old, sees all the opportunities
1319
01:15:12,383 --> 01:15:16,137
and thinks that she is
absolutely capable of,
1320
01:15:16,220 --> 01:15:17,638
just because
we don't see women there
1321
01:15:17,722 --> 01:15:19,807
doesn't mean
we weren't capable to do it.
1322
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:22,560
Does it mean,
you know, we're not capable?
1323
01:15:22,643 --> 01:15:24,437
Absolutely not.
1324
01:15:25,354 --> 01:15:29,400
Now we need to make sure we're giving
each other the opportunities to get there.
1325
01:15:29,483 --> 01:15:32,486
And we're not going to wait for a
break. We have to make our break.
1326
01:15:37,908 --> 01:15:40,619
I would tell any girl that is
looking to get involved to aviation
1327
01:15:40,703 --> 01:15:43,497
that you can do whatever
you set your mind to.
1328
01:15:43,581 --> 01:15:46,042
Don't be afraid to go
be the only person there.
1329
01:15:46,125 --> 01:15:48,294
Don't be afraid to be the first,
you know.
1330
01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:51,505
You might be the first person
to do something and that's okay.
1331
01:15:51,630 --> 01:15:54,717
Research it. Talk to people.
Don't be afraid.
1332
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:56,886
Don't let fear hold you back.
1333
01:15:56,969 --> 01:15:59,221
Why let someone else tell you
what you can do and what you can't do
1334
01:15:59,305 --> 01:16:02,433
or let someone else put an idea
into your head of what you can do.
1335
01:16:02,516 --> 01:16:04,310
You're in control of that.
Apply for it.
1336
01:16:04,393 --> 01:16:06,270
There's nothing that's
stopping you from doing it.
1337
01:16:06,353 --> 01:16:08,522
And... and, you may not like it.
1338
01:16:08,647 --> 01:16:10,649
I happen to love it and fall in
love with it, but you may not like it.
1339
01:16:10,733 --> 01:16:13,402
If you don't, then you walk
away, but it's on your terms.
1340
01:16:13,486 --> 01:16:16,530
It would be terrible if you
went out into the working world
1341
01:16:16,655 --> 01:16:19,116
and you had a job
that you just hated.
1342
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:21,452
I mean, can you imagine
getting up in the morning
1343
01:16:21,535 --> 01:16:24,622
and going to something that
you really don't like to do?
1344
01:16:25,164 --> 01:16:30,002
Try different things, and
see whether you like doing that
1345
01:16:30,086 --> 01:16:32,296
and whether you would
like doing that every day.
1346
01:16:32,379 --> 01:16:34,632
You have to love what
you're doing to excel at it.
1347
01:16:34,715 --> 01:16:38,302
And, you know, the word passion
I think is way overused in this stuff.
1348
01:16:38,385 --> 01:16:42,389
I don't, you know, find your passion,
to me, is just such a pat thing to say.
1349
01:16:42,473 --> 01:16:45,267
I would say passion comes
when you find what you love.
1350
01:16:45,351 --> 01:16:46,977
It's something,
it's a result of that.
1351
01:16:47,061 --> 01:16:50,648
It's not something people
just wake up and have.
1352
01:16:51,190 --> 01:16:54,568
What I've seen in the
aviation world especially is...
1353
01:16:54,652 --> 01:16:57,363
there are so many opportunities
to take advantage of,
1354
01:16:57,446 --> 01:16:59,532
to just get introduced to it.
1355
01:16:59,615 --> 01:17:03,285
Places like this, I tell you what,
you walk through the door of,
1356
01:17:03,369 --> 01:17:07,498
you know, the office or the little
hangar of one of these airports,
1357
01:17:07,581 --> 01:17:10,292
and you seek out the people
that are working on airplanes
1358
01:17:10,376 --> 01:17:12,962
and are excited
and love it themselves.
1359
01:17:13,045 --> 01:17:15,214
They want to share it with you.
1360
01:17:15,297 --> 01:17:18,008
Aviation is an amazing community
and you don't have to be a pilot.
1361
01:17:18,092 --> 01:17:21,804
I have a lot of friends that are,
you know, airport managers,
1362
01:17:21,887 --> 01:17:24,265
engineers,
air traffic controllers.
1363
01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:27,351
Some advice I would give to a
girl who wants to be in aviation
1364
01:17:27,434 --> 01:17:29,937
or in space exploration
is to start working now,
1365
01:17:30,020 --> 01:17:31,981
join robotics, go online.
1366
01:17:32,064 --> 01:17:34,775
There are lots of opportunities
now for our generation.
1367
01:17:34,859 --> 01:17:38,612
You're not limited to the community
that are physically around you.
1368
01:17:38,696 --> 01:17:43,367
We have this capacity to have communication
around the world in... in seconds,
1369
01:17:43,450 --> 01:17:45,619
at the touch of a finger.
1370
01:17:45,744 --> 01:17:47,621
Use that. Go out there.
1371
01:17:47,746 --> 01:17:50,457
Find other people who have
similar passions, similar dreams
1372
01:17:50,541 --> 01:17:53,502
or maybe even people who've
already done what you want to do.
1373
01:17:53,586 --> 01:17:56,547
The one piece of advice that
1374
01:17:56,630 --> 01:18:01,552
I would absolutely have to give
is follow your gut,
1375
01:18:02,386 --> 01:18:04,305
not the conditioned gut,
1376
01:18:04,388 --> 01:18:07,641
not the one that
people taught you to do this,
1377
01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:10,477
taught you to do that, taught
you to... Your authentic self.
1378
01:18:10,561 --> 01:18:12,730
That... that voice
on the inside.
1379
01:18:13,689 --> 01:18:16,775
You know what's right and it takes
guts to do it, but you got to take action.
1380
01:18:17,735 --> 01:18:22,323
That... that voice is you
and you're doing it for you.
1381
01:18:22,406 --> 01:18:25,075
It's not the thing that you do
for anybody else.
1382
01:18:26,493 --> 01:18:29,371
And when people doubt you
and don't think you can do it,
1383
01:18:29,455 --> 01:18:32,249
just because they can't
doesn't mean you can't.
1384
01:18:36,921 --> 01:18:38,964
-You have your flight log?
-Yes.
1385
01:18:42,343 --> 01:18:45,512
[woman 5] Well, last time you taxied over
here to these, you're gonna do that again?
1386
01:18:45,596 --> 01:18:46,972
[Afton] Eh, probably.
1387
01:18:47,556 --> 01:18:49,016
[blows]
1388
01:18:49,099 --> 01:18:52,436
[woman 5]
Thanks for your help on this.
1389
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,699
[man 14] See the color is
blue, right? Real light blue.
1390
01:19:05,824 --> 01:19:08,535
That's what we're looking for,
light blue and no water.
1391
01:19:08,619 --> 01:19:12,122
All right. I'm going to let you get in on the
left seat just like the pilot we did before.
1392
01:19:12,206 --> 01:19:13,582
Okay.
1393
01:19:16,293 --> 01:19:20,506
[Afton] There are those.
There's some more.
1394
01:19:20,589 --> 01:19:22,508
[man 14] I'm going to pull this
all the way up.
1395
01:19:22,591 --> 01:19:25,678
Is that enough room for you?
No, you need some more.
1396
01:19:25,761 --> 01:19:27,304
-All right.
-[Afton] That's close enough.
1397
01:19:27,846 --> 01:19:30,891
You know, and we've told
like, we've said this before,
1398
01:19:30,975 --> 01:19:34,186
and a lot of kids... People are like,
"Well, why would you let her fly now?
1399
01:19:34,270 --> 01:19:36,021
She's too young. She can't fly.
1400
01:19:36,105 --> 01:19:38,190
She can't get her license
until she's 16."
1401
01:19:39,024 --> 01:19:42,444
I said,
"Yes, and no. You're right."
1402
01:19:42,528 --> 01:19:46,740
Um, but,
Joel and I talked about it.
1403
01:19:46,865 --> 01:19:52,079
We said, you know, these kids that
become professional baseball players,
1404
01:19:52,162 --> 01:19:55,791
professional, let's just say
professional athletes.
1405
01:19:56,292 --> 01:20:00,587
They don't start playing
that sport when they're 18.
1406
01:20:00,671 --> 01:20:05,384
They've been playing that sport
since they were four, five, six years old.
1407
01:20:06,051 --> 01:20:08,220
So it's kind of the same thing.
1408
01:20:08,304 --> 01:20:11,682
She's just grooming herself
for that.
1409
01:20:11,765 --> 01:20:18,063
And if she's 18 and chooses
not to do this, that's fine, too.
1410
01:20:18,897 --> 01:20:22,651
Um, she could go on
a whole different direction.
1411
01:20:23,944 --> 01:20:28,657
I would be surprised by that.
But it would be fine.
1412
01:20:28,741 --> 01:20:30,492
I don't know.
I don't know what...
1413
01:20:30,576 --> 01:20:33,704
I think she'll always have
something to do with aviation.
1414
01:20:33,787 --> 01:20:36,582
Maybe she won't fly it, maybe
she'll manage the aviation.
1415
01:20:36,665 --> 01:20:40,210
Maybe she'll do the tower. Maybe...
There're so many different avenues.
1416
01:20:40,294 --> 01:20:42,713
It's not just flying a plane.
1417
01:20:42,796 --> 01:20:45,132
Uh, I don't know
what it's going to be.
1418
01:20:45,215 --> 01:20:48,344
I have no idea
but she might as well enjoy it.
1419
01:20:49,762 --> 01:20:52,556
She can do what she wants
and be what she wants.
1420
01:20:52,639 --> 01:20:57,269
And if she enjoys it... I mean, don't
they say like, the best thing in life
1421
01:20:57,353 --> 01:21:01,440
is you'll never work a day in
your life if you do what you love.
1422
01:21:01,523 --> 01:21:05,444
I'm not sure what type of pilot
I'd be when I grow up
1423
01:21:05,527 --> 01:21:12,284
because I like the idea of being a
firefighter pilot, kind of or a stunt pilot.
1424
01:21:12,743 --> 01:21:18,874
Astronaut might be cool.
But food, not really. [chuckles]
1425
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:25,881
And I'm going to let you turn
the key and help me start it.
1426
01:21:26,757 --> 01:21:29,843
[plane engine revving]
1427
01:21:36,350 --> 01:21:38,018
-All right. You ready?
-Yes.
1428
01:21:38,102 --> 01:21:39,937
All right. Here we go. Woo-hoo.
1429
01:21:40,854 --> 01:21:42,648
There they are.
You can wave at them.
1430
01:21:44,191 --> 01:21:45,651
[laughs]
1431
01:21:53,242 --> 01:21:55,452
[man 14] But I don't see any
other airplanes on the screen
1432
01:21:55,536 --> 01:21:57,246
so I think we're the only ones
out here right now.
1433
01:21:57,329 --> 01:21:58,455
[laughs]
1434
01:22:06,672 --> 01:22:08,048
What is that?
1435
01:22:09,341 --> 01:22:10,759
-All this?
-Yes.
1436
01:22:10,843 --> 01:22:12,678
-That's just showing us the land.
-Yeah.
1437
01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:15,139
These are the lakes right by us.
1438
01:22:17,057 --> 01:22:18,976
The cars look like little toys,
don't they?
1439
01:22:19,059 --> 01:22:22,271
[laughs]
Yeah. Yes, they do.
1440
01:22:24,523 --> 01:22:27,192
All right. You want to pretend like we're
going to [inaudible], the big air show.
1441
01:22:27,276 --> 01:22:28,652
-Yeah.
-Okay.
1442
01:22:28,735 --> 01:22:29,778
We got to slow down
and go down lower.
1443
01:22:29,862 --> 01:22:31,029
Okay.
1444
01:22:31,113 --> 01:22:32,906
-See the road down there?
-Yeah.
1445
01:22:33,031 --> 01:22:35,868
This is how we do it. We
intercept... There's Highway 4.
1446
01:22:35,951 --> 01:22:38,454
-Okay.
-And we just flying along four.
1447
01:22:38,537 --> 01:22:39,663
Okay.
1448
01:22:52,217 --> 01:22:56,763
[upbeat music playing]
1449
01:23:00,893 --> 01:23:02,853
♪ You won't ever see us
Back away ♪
1450
01:23:02,936 --> 01:23:05,606
♪ Ti! we make the world see that
We ain't come to play ♪
1451
01:23:05,689 --> 01:23:08,692
♪ This is so lil girls dream
Bigger than they supposed to ♪
1452
01:23:08,775 --> 01:23:11,195
♪ And we get a fair share of pie
On the plate ♪
1453
01:23:11,278 --> 01:23:15,741
♪ I am her, I am her ♪
1454
01:23:16,742 --> 01:23:18,744
♪ I am her ♪
1455
01:23:18,827 --> 01:23:20,621
♪ Pardon this interruption
Of your daily status quo ♪
1456
01:23:20,704 --> 01:23:22,331
♪ We're here to disrupt ♪
1457
01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:24,249
♪ The arrangement
Of your daddy's show ♪
1458
01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:26,293
♪ This double extraordinary
Enigmatic flow is ♪
1459
01:23:26,376 --> 01:23:28,712
♪ Brought to you by Audre
And Bell and Maya Angelou ♪
1460
01:23:28,795 --> 01:23:30,756
♪ Hand 'em over
We need the titles, receipts ♪
1461
01:23:30,839 --> 01:23:32,758
♪ The empire replete
With the power to speak ♪
1462
01:23:32,841 --> 01:23:34,885
♪ And, no
This is not a request ♪
1463
01:23:34,968 --> 01:23:37,304
♪ Hundreds of years of forced
Silence got a lot on my chest ♪
1464
01:23:37,387 --> 01:23:38,722
♪ And we don't need
Your approval ♪
1465
01:23:38,805 --> 01:23:40,474
I On our style of address ♪
1466
01:23:40,557 --> 01:23:41,725
♪ Or style of the dress
I'll rock a head wrap ♪
1467
01:23:41,808 --> 01:23:43,519
♪ And bulletproof vest a'
1468
01:23:43,602 --> 01:23:44,770
♪ And start my lyrical sermon
With this ♪
1469
01:23:44,853 --> 01:23:46,897
♪ Mother you guessed it ♪
1470
01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:48,982
♪ Just so we're clear on who
Governs reproductive requests ♪
1471
01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:51,109
♪ It's not up to anyone's
Opinion on how I protect it ♪
1472
01:23:51,193 --> 01:23:53,946
♪ I'm part of collectives from
Mali to Mecca getting bigger ♪
1473
01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:57,241
♪ And our premiere be major
No longer hidden figures ♪
1474
01:23:57,324 --> 01:23:59,660
♪ We out to level the playing
Field for them young queens ♪
1475
01:23:59,743 --> 01:24:01,411
♪ Coming for that wage gap ♪
1476
01:24:01,495 --> 01:24:03,330
♪ Til we recoup them
Hidden figures ♪
1477
01:24:03,413 --> 01:24:05,207
I In '97, million women marched
And I was with it ♪
1478
01:24:05,290 --> 01:24:08,168
♪ In 2017, the same
The establishment livid ♪
1479
01:24:08,252 --> 01:24:11,004
♪ If this a man's world we came
Here to grab the equivalents ♪
1480
01:24:11,129 --> 01:24:12,422
♪ And watch the future
Reimagined ♪
1481
01:24:12,506 --> 01:24:14,132
♪ By the hand of the feminine ♪
1482
01:24:14,216 --> 01:24:16,093
I You won't ever
See us back away ♪
1483
01:24:16,176 --> 01:24:18,220
♪ Ti! we make the world see that
We ain't come to play ♪
1484
01:24:18,303 --> 01:24:21,139
♪ This is so lil girls dream
Bigger than they supposed to ♪
1485
01:24:21,223 --> 01:24:23,725
♪ And we get a fair share of pie
On the plate ♪
1486
01:24:23,809 --> 01:24:27,980
♪ I am her, I am her ♪
1487
01:24:29,565 --> 01:24:32,276
♪ You won't ever see us
Back away ♪
1488
01:24:32,359 --> 01:24:34,987
♪ Ti! we make the world see that
We ain't come to play ♪
1489
01:24:35,070 --> 01:24:37,864
♪ This is so lil girls dream
Bigger than they supposed to ♪
1490
01:24:37,948 --> 01:24:40,450
♪ And we get a fair share of pie
On the plate ♪
1491
01:24:40,534 --> 01:24:44,871
♪ I am her, I am her ♪
1492
01:24:45,998 --> 01:24:48,709
♪ I am her ♪
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