Youngest Black Female Pilot: Kimberly Anyadike

Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Academia News, Faculty, Getting Tenure, HBCU Presidents, I'm a Full Professor!, Masters, Places of Scholarly Work, Promotions, Scholarly Celebrations, Students

Today, we elected to showcase a different type of feature. This one highlights an incredible feet from a young Lady who has made history!

A 15-year-old Los Angeles girl has become the youngest African-American female pilot to fly solo cross country.

Kimberly Anyadike landed a single-engine Cessna to cheering crowds at Compton Woodley Airport this past Saturday. She took off from Compton 13 days before with an adult safety pilot and Levi Thornhill, an 87-year-old who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. They flew to Newport News, Va., making about a dozen stops along the way.

Anyadike learned to fly when she was 12 at Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, an after-school program that offers aviation lessons to at-risk youth [BSI doesn't agree with that descriptive phrase at all].

[From NBCLosAngeles.com]

An interview before take-off…

And we are happy that she talks about high cognitive abilities in African-American and the assumptions against them in the video above.

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