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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:19,561 --> 00:00:22,981 [tranquil music playing] 2 00:00:23,106 --> 00:00:24,233 [Afton] Daisy Mae! 3 00:00:25,567 --> 00:00:29,112 [clucking] 4 00:00:34,618 --> 00:00:38,830 This one, come on. Lulu! 5 00:00:39,373 --> 00:00:42,584 What? Stevie. That one's Stevie. 6 00:00:42,668 --> 00:00:46,046 This one's Eda. That one's Billy. 7 00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:49,007 Billy. 8 00:00:50,342 --> 00:00:52,094 Come on, guys. Snack! 9 00:00:52,177 --> 00:00:55,931 I don't think they can see it. It's green like the grass. 10 00:00:56,014 --> 00:00:58,058 Come on, guys. Snack! 11 00:01:00,394 --> 00:01:02,062 Hey, Bessie. 12 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:04,940 Bessie is named after Bessie Coleman, 13 00:01:05,023 --> 00:01:09,152 which is like the first female African-American aviator. 14 00:01:09,236 --> 00:01:11,822 Amelia is in here. Hey, hey. 15 00:01:11,905 --> 00:01:13,532 Amelia is a talker. 16 00:01:14,408 --> 00:01:17,953 Amelia. Hey, ugh. 17 00:01:18,036 --> 00:01:20,372 Her name is Amelia named after Amelia Earhart 18 00:01:20,455 --> 00:01:23,834 since I like aviation and they're girls. 19 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:26,920 Oh, really? Pfft. She's talking, heh. 20 00:01:31,592 --> 00:01:34,970 Well, this plane has Patty Wagstaff in it, 21 00:01:35,053 --> 00:01:36,680 which I made myself. 22 00:01:36,763 --> 00:01:41,977 It originally had a, uh, a boy driver or like pilot 23 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:43,854 so I decided I'm like no, 24 00:01:43,937 --> 00:01:45,981 I want it to change it to Miss Patty 25 00:01:46,064 --> 00:01:49,776 so I made my own little Patty Lego 26 00:01:49,860 --> 00:01:54,448 to be flying in it with my Star Wars battle so... 27 00:01:54,906 --> 00:01:58,243 Well, Miss Patty is a female pilot 28 00:01:58,327 --> 00:02:00,329 which she does stunt planes 29 00:02:00,412 --> 00:02:04,166 and I love to watch her at like air shows 30 00:02:04,249 --> 00:02:08,337 and I love her flying up and out. 31 00:02:08,420 --> 00:02:10,797 I just think a stunt pilot is really cool. 32 00:02:11,256 --> 00:02:15,344 Girls make better pilots than boys because we're way smarter. 33 00:02:16,219 --> 00:02:17,387 No offense. 34 00:02:17,471 --> 00:02:20,515 [upbeat music playing] 35 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:30,651 ♪ You won't ever see us Back away ♪ 36 00:02:30,734 --> 00:02:33,487 ♪ Ti! we make the world see That we ain't come to play ♪ 37 00:02:33,570 --> 00:02:36,239 ♪ This is so lil girls dream Bigger than they supposed to ♪ 38 00:02:36,323 --> 00:02:38,992 ♪ And we get a fair share of pie On the plate ♪ 39 00:02:39,076 --> 00:02:43,789 ♪ I am her, I am her ♪ 40 00:02:44,581 --> 00:02:46,583 ♪ I am her ♪ 41 00:02:46,667 --> 00:02:48,293 ♪ Pardon this interruption Of your daily status quo ♪ 42 00:02:48,377 --> 00:02:50,003 ♪ We're here to disrupt ♪ 43 00:02:50,087 --> 00:02:51,922 ♪ The arrangement Of your daddy's show ♪ 44 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:53,965 ♪ This double extraordinary Enigmatic flow is ♪ 45 00:02:54,049 --> 00:02:56,343 ♪ Brought to you by Audre And Bell and Maya Angelou ♪ 46 00:02:56,426 --> 00:02:58,595 ♪ Hand 'em over We need the titles, receipts ♪ 47 00:02:58,679 --> 00:03:00,597 ♪ The empire replete With the power to speak ♪ 48 00:03:00,681 --> 00:03:02,724 ♪ And, no This is not a request ♪ 49 00:03:02,808 --> 00:03:05,018 ♪ Hundreds of years of forced Silence got a lot on my chest ♪ 50 00:03:05,102 --> 00:03:06,895 ♪ And we don't need Your approval ♪ 51 00:03:06,978 --> 00:03:08,897 ♪ On our style of address Or style of the dress ♪ 52 00:03:08,980 --> 00:03:10,732 ♪ I'll rock a head wrap And bulletproof vest ♪ 53 00:03:10,816 --> 00:03:12,484 ♪ And start my lyrical sermon With this ♪ 54 00:03:12,567 --> 00:03:14,611 ♪ Mother you guessed it ♪ 55 00:03:14,695 --> 00:03:16,697 ♪ Just so we're clear on who Governs reproductive requests ♪ 56 00:03:16,780 --> 00:03:18,907 ♪ It's not up to anyone's Opinion on how I protect it ♪ 57 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:21,576 ♪ I'm part of collectives from Mali to Mecca getting bigger ♪ 58 00:03:21,660 --> 00:03:24,454 ♪ And our premiere be major No longer hidden figures ♪ 59 00:03:24,538 --> 00:03:27,249 ♪ We out to level the playing Field for them young queens ♪ 60 00:03:27,332 --> 00:03:30,127 ♪ Coming for that wage gap til We recoup them Hidden figures ♪ 61 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:32,921 I In '97, million women marched And I was with it ♪ 62 00:03:33,004 --> 00:03:35,716 ♪ In 2017, the same The establishment livid ♪ 63 00:03:35,799 --> 00:03:38,510 ♪ If this a man's world we came Here to grab the equivalents ♪ 64 00:03:38,593 --> 00:03:40,053 ♪ And watch The future reimagined ♪ 65 00:03:40,137 --> 00:03:41,638 ♪ By the hand of the feminine ♪ 66 00:03:41,722 --> 00:03:43,598 ♪ You won't ever see us Back away ♪ 67 00:03:43,682 --> 00:03:46,017 ♪ Ti! we make the world see that We ain't come to play ♪ 68 00:03:46,101 --> 00:03:48,812 ♪ This is so lil girls dream Bigger than they supposed to ♪ 69 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:51,356 ♪ And we get a fair share of pie On the plate ♪ 70 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,777 ♪ I am her, I am her ♪ 71 00:03:58,071 --> 00:04:00,115 ♪ You won't ever see us Back away ♪ 72 00:04:00,198 --> 00:04:02,617 ♪ Ti! we make the world see That we ain't come to play ♪ 73 00:04:02,701 --> 00:04:05,412 ♪ This is so lil girls dream Bigger than they supposed to ♪ 74 00:04:05,495 --> 00:04:08,415 ♪ And we get a fair share Of pie on the plate ♪ 75 00:04:08,498 --> 00:04:12,210 ♪ I am her, I am her ♪ 76 00:04:13,837 --> 00:04:16,131 ♪ I am her ♪ 77 00:04:19,843 --> 00:04:23,597 [man 1] The airplane, symbol of our mastery of the skies, 78 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,517 Is spanning oceans and continents in ever dwindling hours, 79 00:04:27,601 --> 00:04:30,479 bringing new hope to the people of the world, 80 00:04:30,562 --> 00:04:34,775 Is spanning oceans and continents in ever dwindling hours, 81 00:04:36,234 --> 00:04:39,362 new horizons to industry and new careers to you. 82 00:04:39,446 --> 00:04:42,949 For air transportation has proved itself a vital factor 83 00:04:43,033 --> 00:04:44,993 in the social and economic life of modern civilization. 84 00:04:45,076 --> 00:04:47,579 It is a rapidly expanding industry 85 00:04:47,662 --> 00:04:50,874 Embracing many trades and professions. 86 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,834 An industry employing thousands of persons. 87 00:04:52,918 --> 00:04:56,546 and earn your living in a youthful and romantic industry, 88 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:59,174 And if you want to learn 89 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:03,470 Air transportation presents a challenge 90 00:05:04,846 --> 00:05:06,473 And an opportunity for your life work. 91 00:05:06,556 --> 00:05:08,809 [upbeat music playing] 92 00:05:08,892 --> 00:05:11,061 Well, I really wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid. 93 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:14,272 I wanted to be an airline pilot like my dad. 94 00:05:14,356 --> 00:05:15,941 And, uh, but my parents said, you know, "Girls don't become pilots. 95 00:05:16,024 --> 00:05:17,818 You can't really do that." 96 00:05:17,901 --> 00:05:19,528 You know, I dreamed about becoming an astronaut, 97 00:05:19,611 --> 00:05:22,113 And I always knew that I could do any of that stuff 98 00:05:22,197 --> 00:05:24,449 and so on, but the oppor... 99 00:05:24,533 --> 00:05:26,243 but there weren't opportunities for girls. 100 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:30,288 that there weren't any limitations to what I could do 101 00:05:30,413 --> 00:05:33,458 An accountant the next day, an astronaut the next day. 102 00:05:33,542 --> 00:05:35,293 I mean, I just changed on the weekly. 103 00:05:35,377 --> 00:05:37,170 When I was young, 104 00:05:37,254 --> 00:05:39,548 I was that kid, uh, that wanted to be a ballerina one day, 105 00:05:39,631 --> 00:05:42,342 But it just seemed like something that was really cool. 106 00:05:42,884 --> 00:05:45,887 It didn't even then seemed like something that I should consider, 107 00:05:45,971 --> 00:05:48,181 as, you know, as reality. 108 00:05:48,265 --> 00:05:50,433 I'm originally from Afghanistan. 109 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:55,188 My family and I came to the United States during the Afghan-Soviet war. 110 00:05:55,272 --> 00:05:58,233 Uh, so my family came to the U.S. as refugees. 111 00:05:58,316 --> 00:06:01,444 It was very difficult for me to connect with school. 112 00:06:01,528 --> 00:06:03,113 I grew up in Richmond, California, 113 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:07,409 where it's a very underprivileged school district. 114 00:06:07,492 --> 00:06:09,870 Substitute teachers were the norm. 115 00:06:09,953 --> 00:06:11,538 English was not my first language. 116 00:06:11,621 --> 00:06:13,248 It was actually my third. 117 00:06:13,331 --> 00:06:16,001 Uh, so I kind of found myself in this environment 118 00:06:16,084 --> 00:06:18,670 where, uh, school wasn't motivating. 119 00:06:18,753 --> 00:06:20,171 I struggled a lot in school. 120 00:06:20,255 --> 00:06:23,675 I wasn't good in math or science, um... 121 00:06:23,758 --> 00:06:27,304 And I really didn't read my first chapter book until I was 13. 122 00:06:27,387 --> 00:06:29,806 I knew I wanted to be an astronaut at the age of nine 123 00:06:29,890 --> 00:06:31,641 when I was looking up at the stars, 124 00:06:31,725 --> 00:06:34,102 and I thought, "Wow, I wonder what those things are." 125 00:06:34,185 --> 00:06:36,479 And ever since then, I wanted to go into space. 126 00:06:36,563 --> 00:06:40,358 In school, I used to get bullied a lot for me wanting to go to space 127 00:06:40,442 --> 00:06:41,818 and wanting to be an astronaut. 128 00:06:41,902 --> 00:06:43,862 Girls are taught to be girly 129 00:06:43,945 --> 00:06:46,656 and stuff that they should look like and images they... 130 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:49,451 They can't live up to and I think they just stop believing in themselves 131 00:06:49,534 --> 00:06:51,369 and stop what they want to do. 132 00:06:51,494 --> 00:06:53,830 My parents had no idea I wanted to be a pilot. 133 00:06:53,914 --> 00:06:56,291 I was just a kid that wanted to play outside. 134 00:06:56,374 --> 00:06:58,376 I wanted to go on trips 135 00:06:58,501 --> 00:07:01,671 and go to, you know, Orlando to go to all the theme parks and stuff. 136 00:07:01,755 --> 00:07:05,050 Um, being an aviator never really crossed my mind. 137 00:07:06,134 --> 00:07:10,889 Growing up, I... I was fed a steady diet of science fiction and fantasy. 138 00:07:10,972 --> 00:07:15,560 Uh, so to me, space exploration never seemed like an unrealistic goal. 139 00:07:15,644 --> 00:07:17,771 It was definitely something that was attainable 140 00:07:17,854 --> 00:07:21,983 because my heroines and heroes in books were doing it every day. 141 00:07:22,067 --> 00:07:24,069 How could I not? 142 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:29,240 The first person to actually tell me that my dream was highly unlikely 143 00:07:29,324 --> 00:07:32,494 and very improbable was my mom. 144 00:07:32,577 --> 00:07:34,746 She sat me down one day, and she was like, 145 00:07:34,829 --> 00:07:38,416 "Abby, do you have any idea how difficult this is?" 146 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:43,171 She told me then and there, "If this is something that you really want to do, 147 00:07:43,254 --> 00:07:46,299 you have to make a plan, and you have to be ready to work for it." 148 00:07:46,383 --> 00:07:50,428 And so I went away from that discussion, and I did some research. 149 00:07:50,553 --> 00:07:53,598 And I typed out a couple of different documents of ways 150 00:07:53,682 --> 00:07:55,809 that I could go about becoming an astronaut. 151 00:07:55,892 --> 00:07:59,771 When someone tells you that your dream is impossible, 152 00:07:59,854 --> 00:08:02,023 you have to prove to them that it's not. 153 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:08,154 I can be not only the first woman on Mars, but the first person on Mars. 154 00:08:08,238 --> 00:08:11,449 From that moment on, my mom has been my biggest supporter. 155 00:08:11,533 --> 00:08:13,994 Actually had no interest in aviation. 156 00:08:14,077 --> 00:08:17,455 My dream was to go be a psychologist and be a grief counselor. 157 00:08:17,539 --> 00:08:19,124 So I had never flown. 158 00:08:19,207 --> 00:08:21,376 I had planes would fly over, I didn't look twice. 159 00:08:21,459 --> 00:08:23,753 It wasn't something that really piqued my interest. 160 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:27,674 I had a teacher who encouraged me to look into a school here in Lake Glenn 161 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:29,926 called Central Florida Aerospace Academy. 162 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:32,053 And I started learning about ground schooling 163 00:08:32,137 --> 00:08:36,349 and how planes fly, and learning how to read weather reports 164 00:08:36,433 --> 00:08:39,978 and learning how to talk to air traffic control and things like that. 165 00:08:40,061 --> 00:08:41,479 And I was addicted. 166 00:08:41,563 --> 00:08:43,982 I was at Career Day Army ROTC. 167 00:08:44,065 --> 00:08:47,402 I did not want to go into the aviation tent at all whatsoever. 168 00:08:47,485 --> 00:08:49,571 I actually made the comment, 169 00:08:49,654 --> 00:08:52,490 "Like people don't fly," which is so not true, right? 170 00:08:52,615 --> 00:08:54,451 Tuskegee Airmen Bessie Coleman, Willa Brown, 171 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:57,328 and when we walked into the tent, 172 00:08:57,412 --> 00:09:01,041 I saw a black woman in a flight suit and it blew my mind. 173 00:09:01,124 --> 00:09:03,084 The moment I knew I wanted to be a pilot 174 00:09:03,168 --> 00:09:05,712 was when I saw that woman in the flight suit. 175 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:10,341 Now, when did I actually make the step to become a pilot? 176 00:09:10,425 --> 00:09:13,303 Uh, I actually applied four years, 177 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:15,388 well, actually three years skipping one year. 178 00:09:15,472 --> 00:09:17,265 Women could only apply once a year 179 00:09:17,348 --> 00:09:19,392 with the Marine Corps to become an officer. 180 00:09:19,476 --> 00:09:21,352 They didn't take my application the first time. 181 00:09:21,436 --> 00:09:24,147 They didn't take it the second time. I skipped a year. 182 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:27,025 And on the fourth time, they accepted my application. 183 00:09:27,108 --> 00:09:29,444 They say when the door closes another one opens 184 00:09:29,527 --> 00:09:32,072 but they didn't tell you it might be down the hall 185 00:09:32,155 --> 00:09:33,698 and up the stairs or around the corner. 186 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:40,497 Uh, I have like my winning collectable planes that I like 187 00:09:41,081 --> 00:09:48,046 and I have some on my desk, like this plane. 188 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:55,470 And I build some of my planes like a Wright Brothers plane, 189 00:09:55,553 --> 00:10:01,059 and I have a lot of the balsa wood throw like paper airplanes and stuff. 190 00:10:01,142 --> 00:10:03,853 One of the windup ones that I've made 191 00:10:03,937 --> 00:10:08,191 and just some posters and a painting. 192 00:10:08,650 --> 00:10:10,819 So I have a lot of, heh, airplane stuff. 193 00:10:11,569 --> 00:10:12,821 So, yeah. 194 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:16,116 There was a time that daddy and, you, and myself, 195 00:10:16,199 --> 00:10:18,159 we had all gone to the bank. 196 00:10:18,243 --> 00:10:22,247 And, uh, they were doing something with our insurance paperwork 197 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:25,125 and the lady referred to you as princess. 198 00:10:25,208 --> 00:10:27,168 She said, "Hi, princess..." You were four. 199 00:10:27,252 --> 00:10:29,337 She said, "Hi, princess." 200 00:10:29,420 --> 00:10:35,093 And your usual, you got really angry and you said, "I'm not a princess." 201 00:10:35,176 --> 00:10:36,719 I don't do f... What did you... 202 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:39,472 "I don't do fairy tales, I do flight plans." 203 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:43,518 The first time I've flown a plane, I didn't really know. 204 00:10:43,601 --> 00:10:46,062 I just like looking out the window really, 205 00:10:46,146 --> 00:10:50,358 and just seeing everything below me. 206 00:10:50,859 --> 00:10:53,153 We knew Afton was interested in aviation 207 00:10:53,236 --> 00:10:56,531 because if there was ever a plane flying anywhere, 208 00:10:56,614 --> 00:11:00,535 if you're out anywhere, she will stop and stare at the plane. 209 00:11:00,618 --> 00:11:02,996 I mean, but she has been doing that since she was two. 210 00:11:03,079 --> 00:11:05,248 I mean, she could be in a room full of toys 211 00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:08,126 and she's out the window staring at the airplanes. 212 00:11:08,209 --> 00:11:14,883 Uh, take her to a toy store and all she wants to look at are the planes. 213 00:11:14,966 --> 00:11:18,094 That's it. Nothing else. Okay, Legos. 214 00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:19,721 -Legos. -Legos. 215 00:11:19,804 --> 00:11:23,641 Airplane Legos would be like, the ultimate, right? 216 00:11:24,184 --> 00:11:26,728 Um, so she's always been that way. 217 00:11:26,811 --> 00:11:30,565 She's just never... She's never deviated from that. 218 00:11:30,648 --> 00:11:35,445 I mean, even preschool where the child changes their mind every week. 219 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,780 I'm going to be a nurse. I'm going to be a chef. 220 00:11:37,864 --> 00:11:39,824 Princess was a lot in preschool. 221 00:11:39,908 --> 00:11:42,076 A lot of kids said that but what did you always say? 222 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,329 Pilot. 223 00:11:44,412 --> 00:11:46,581 I mean, I have her record from when she was in preschool, at preschool. 224 00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:51,127 She's like four years old and she said, "I'm going to be a pilot" 225 00:11:51,211 --> 00:11:54,297 and it just always stuck. 226 00:11:54,756 --> 00:11:58,593 I think flying behind the yoke and be... 227 00:11:58,676 --> 00:12:02,597 The feel of flying like a bird is just... I like it. 228 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,016 I don't really know how to explain it, just... 229 00:12:05,099 --> 00:12:07,310 I just feel like I'm floating on the sky. 230 00:12:07,393 --> 00:12:10,563 When people say I can't be a pilot, I don't listen to them. 231 00:12:10,647 --> 00:12:12,941 I just keep doing it. 232 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:16,694 I just like being in the air and mostly when taking off 233 00:12:16,819 --> 00:12:18,780 because it feels kind of like a roller coaster 234 00:12:18,863 --> 00:12:21,449 which I love roller coasters, so... 235 00:12:24,327 --> 00:12:27,914 I grew up in depression years. 236 00:12:28,456 --> 00:12:30,959 And my brother was 13 months older than I. 237 00:12:31,042 --> 00:12:35,630 He graduated high school and he got a scholarship. 238 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:38,633 There were still expenses sending him there 239 00:12:39,175 --> 00:12:41,594 and there just wasn't enough money to send me. 240 00:12:41,678 --> 00:12:44,430 I had to go out into the working world. 241 00:12:44,514 --> 00:12:47,684 I worked my way up to a private secretary, 242 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:51,229 always saying, "I wish I had further education." 243 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:53,064 And then one day I said, 244 00:12:53,147 --> 00:12:56,359 "Stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something about it." 245 00:12:56,442 --> 00:12:59,279 So I looked up at Newark College of Engineering 246 00:12:59,362 --> 00:13:03,283 and they gave night courses and I went to night school. 247 00:13:03,366 --> 00:13:06,286 And I didn't exactly know what I wanted to take up, 248 00:13:06,369 --> 00:13:08,663 but they had a course in aviation. 249 00:13:08,746 --> 00:13:11,541 So I said, "That sounds interesting. I'll take that." 250 00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:13,001 But when the course was finished, 251 00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:15,670 I said, "I think I'll take a flying lesson 252 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:17,714 and see what this is all about." 253 00:13:17,797 --> 00:13:20,591 Well, the first time I was up, I was hooked. 254 00:13:20,675 --> 00:13:24,178 Well, it was really an issue of fairness that I got involved in aviation. 255 00:13:24,262 --> 00:13:27,515 I actually thought I was going to become a military linguist 256 00:13:27,598 --> 00:13:29,058 because I speak several languages. 257 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:32,353 The instructor sat all of us down in my class 258 00:13:32,437 --> 00:13:36,399 and said, "Okay, well, men, doesn't matter what your, um, 259 00:13:36,482 --> 00:13:38,067 major is in college, 260 00:13:38,151 --> 00:13:41,696 you have to of your top five choices or ten choices, 261 00:13:41,779 --> 00:13:44,365 the majority of them have to be Combat Arms branches." 262 00:13:44,449 --> 00:13:46,367 And they didn't have a choice. 263 00:13:46,451 --> 00:13:47,785 It was a requirement that they put themselves in the proof of combat. 264 00:13:47,910 --> 00:13:49,579 And then he said, "Except for Duckworth." 265 00:13:49,662 --> 00:13:51,789 I was the only woman in my class. 266 00:13:51,873 --> 00:13:54,334 And he said, "Duckworth doesn't have to put any down because she's female." 267 00:13:54,417 --> 00:13:56,502 And I just thought that was patently unfair 268 00:13:56,586 --> 00:13:59,380 because I knew I was going to get equal pay for equal work 269 00:13:59,464 --> 00:14:01,716 so I felt like I should take equal risks. 270 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:05,511 And I said, "Well, what, what branch that is Combat Arms is accepting women?" 271 00:14:05,595 --> 00:14:08,806 And they said, "Well, there's only two, Air Defense Artillery and aviation." 272 00:14:08,931 --> 00:14:12,560 And the only one that likely will allow women to see combat anytime soon is aviation. 273 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:14,771 So I made that my first choice. 274 00:14:14,854 --> 00:14:18,441 It was really out of just feeling that it was important to be fair, too, 275 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:20,234 and spare the same risk. 276 00:14:20,318 --> 00:14:22,612 And then I got to flight school and just fell in love with it. 277 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:27,325 I really was looking for something to get can I sink my teeth in, to excel at. 278 00:14:27,408 --> 00:14:29,369 I didn't know what it was going to be 279 00:14:29,452 --> 00:14:34,832 but, I, you know, I knew aviation was going to be a path to that. 280 00:14:34,957 --> 00:14:36,751 I took lessons when I moved to Alaska 281 00:14:36,834 --> 00:14:38,836 and it seems like everybody in Alaska flies, 282 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,881 so I had an opportunity up there to take some lessons. 283 00:14:42,340 --> 00:14:47,220 What started my involvement in aviation was this place right here, really. 284 00:14:47,303 --> 00:14:49,764 You know, a family that loved flying. 285 00:14:49,847 --> 00:14:52,642 Uh, my dad loved to build and fly small airplanes. 286 00:14:52,725 --> 00:14:55,812 And this, you know, Clearwater Air Park was the place that happened. 287 00:14:55,895 --> 00:14:58,564 So as a family, we hung out here a lot. 288 00:14:58,648 --> 00:15:01,818 And I got to work on airplanes. 289 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:05,154 I got to meet people who love to fly airplanes. 290 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:09,492 And that was a really interesting and inspiring thing for me. 291 00:15:09,575 --> 00:15:13,204 While I might not remember the exact flight that it was, 292 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:17,417 I have total memory of getting off the Earth 293 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:20,461 in an airplane of looking over the, 294 00:15:20,545 --> 00:15:23,881 you know, top of the front cockpit of my dad's airplane. 295 00:15:23,965 --> 00:15:27,760 And, you know, seeing my neighborhood in a totally different way, 296 00:15:27,844 --> 00:15:30,096 that kind of perspective shift that happens 297 00:15:30,179 --> 00:15:33,683 when you have the opportunity to separate from something. 298 00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:38,396 And I think that... that whole, like sense of it, you know, 299 00:15:38,479 --> 00:15:40,064 it was more than just what you see with your eyes, 300 00:15:40,148 --> 00:15:42,817 you're actually feeling it, it becomes part of you, 301 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:47,655 is what really drove me to want to know how things fly, 302 00:15:47,738 --> 00:15:50,032 to want to fly myself, 303 00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:55,246 to want to consider what opportunities could open up for me because of flying. 304 00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:58,583 I grew up terrified of aviation. 305 00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:02,920 Uh, the only exposure that I had to anything related to flight 306 00:16:03,045 --> 00:16:08,843 were aircraft accidents on... on television and I remember looking over at my mom 307 00:16:08,926 --> 00:16:12,430 and saying, "Mom, I hope I never have to find an airplane." 308 00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:17,268 I would rather take a bus, take a train, walk, crawl. 309 00:16:17,351 --> 00:16:20,229 I just, I never want to get inside of an airplane. 310 00:16:20,313 --> 00:16:24,108 When I was 17 years old, just graduating from high school, 311 00:16:24,192 --> 00:16:28,029 uh, my parents surprised me with an airline ticket for me 312 00:16:28,112 --> 00:16:30,198 to fly from California to Florida. 313 00:16:30,281 --> 00:16:34,410 I made my way to my seat and I sat down strapped in my seatbelt thinking, 314 00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:38,039 "My gosh, this plane is going to launch into the sky like a rocket." 315 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:43,544 And I hold on to the armrests thinking, "Okay, this is it. It's time to face my fear." 316 00:16:43,628 --> 00:16:47,715 I could feel the, uh... the aircraft accelerating 317 00:16:47,798 --> 00:16:53,054 and lifting off the ground and it was so beautiful and so romantic. 318 00:16:53,137 --> 00:16:57,600 And from that moment on, I knew this is what I want to do the rest of my life. 319 00:16:58,935 --> 00:17:01,479 [upbeat music playing] 320 00:17:01,562 --> 00:17:03,105 [man 2] Roaring into the Oakland Airport 321 00:17:03,189 --> 00:17:05,066 she brings to a triumphant finish 322 00:17:05,149 --> 00:17:10,112 a 2,400-mile hop from Hawaii after 18 hours in the air. 323 00:17:10,196 --> 00:17:12,907 10,000 cheer the end of the epical flight 324 00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:17,495 as Lady Lindy slides into a perfect landing with two records, 325 00:17:17,578 --> 00:17:19,497 the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean, 326 00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:21,958 the first person to fly it solo. 327 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:25,294 She receives one of the most tumultuous greetings ever recorded a flyer. 328 00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:27,421 [clatters] 329 00:17:27,505 --> 00:17:30,049 [indistinct chatter] 330 00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:33,094 Roses to Amelia and the plaudits of the world 331 00:17:33,177 --> 00:17:36,597 to a veteran of flights that have shown the way for aviation's progress. 332 00:17:36,681 --> 00:17:39,934 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 00:17:49,318 --> 00:17:55,032 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 00:18:01,330 --> 00:18:04,834 I saw the Moon and stars most of the night. 338 00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:08,921 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 00:18:18,014 --> 00:18:20,808 And it said, "Demo flights $15." 342 00:18:21,350 --> 00:18:24,145 And I pulled over, I call my mom 343 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:27,148 and I said, "Mom, I really, really, really want to do this. 344 00:18:27,231 --> 00:18:30,234 Uh, there's a flight school that's doing intro flights. 345 00:18:30,318 --> 00:18:33,487 Can you please bring $15 because I don't have it?" 346 00:18:33,571 --> 00:18:35,823 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 00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:55,092 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 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:14,487 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 00:19:40,388 --> 00:19:45,059 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 ♪ 129347

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