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00:16:55C'est ce que je veux faire le reste de ma vie.
00:17:25Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:17:55On this flight, really no bad weather at all except a few little rain squalls.
00:18:01I saw the moon and stars most of the night.
00:18:05I think I was 15 or 16. I had just started driving. I was driving by myself.
00:18:11And I lived about a mile away from Burbank Airport, and I was driving home,
00:18:15and there was a sandwich board on the street, and it said, demo flights, $15.
00:18:20And I pulled over. I called my mom, and I said, Mom, I really, really, really want to do this.
00:18:27There's a flight school that's doing intro flights. Can you please bring $15 because I don't have it.
00:18:33And that was my very first flight, and I had my mom with my baby sister sitting in the back next to my brother,
00:18:40and I was sitting up front with the flight instructor, and I was on cloud 11.
00:18:47It was the coolest thing.
00:18:49The point in my flight training that was really the affirmation that's what I wanted to do was my first solo.
00:18:55The sun was kind of shining through these clouds. It had just rained, so it was a beautiful kind of glory moment of, like,
00:19:03this is your runway, this is you, and it was just kind of like a moment where it kind of took my breath away,
00:19:08and it really was like, this is amazing. I am controlling this plane. This is what I want to do.
00:19:14I started flying in flight school in a Huey, Vietnam-era helicopter, an H-Motto Huey.
00:19:20I was one of three officers in my class selected out of 40 to fly the Black Hawk, to get trained in the Black Hawk,
00:19:28which is considered an advanced aircraft.
00:19:30I had been flying commercially since I was a little baby, but to be in the flight controls,
00:19:34to be controlling this aircraft was an amazing thing.
00:19:38And to think that my country trusted in me to do this, to protect and defend her, was really quite a privilege.
00:19:44I initially decided to become a pilot as a way to further my goals to become an astronaut.
00:19:52But once I started flying, and once I started to get to know the aviation industry and get more familiar with aircraft,
00:20:00I realized that flying is a passion of its own.
00:20:04Flying, it's a feeling unlike any other.
00:20:08Wow, it definitely looks different from up there.
00:20:10It's something that I'm struggling for words to describe because flying is so beautiful
00:20:23and so different from daily life.
00:20:28Flying Cloud Tower, 7959, Gulf Tango, flying cloud tower, we're only one to do a rice lamp, wait.
00:20:38So I had a couple different first-time times flying,
00:20:47whether it was the first time in a T-34 Charlie, Turbo Mentor,
00:20:51or it was the first time in the Bell helicopter,
00:20:54the first time I lifted, just the skids broke the deck, right?
00:20:59I'm flying, this is cold, and I'm just in the back seat and you feel like you're floating.
00:21:02Or the first time I climbed into the cockpit of that AH-1 Whiskey Super Cobra helicopter
00:21:08and feeling it taxi out to the runway, push down on the stick, pull up on the throttle,
00:21:15feeling that nose go shift, and you could feel that momentum.
00:21:19Out of all the different experiences I've had in a first in the cockpit,
00:21:25they've all been amazing.
00:21:28They've all had their magic, and it'll be an experience I'll never forget.
00:21:33It was tough going from my background of my science and my math skills
00:21:38and bringing it up to the level that it needed to be for me to become a pilot.
00:21:42The one feeling that kept me going every time, whenever I'd feel down or I felt unmotivated,
00:21:49was the feeling that I would feel in the air.
00:21:52And for me, it didn't matter who I was or what my background was.
00:21:58It didn't matter that I'm a refugee from Afghanistan, from a family of six girls.
00:22:04None of those things matter.
00:22:05When I'm in the airplane and I'm being propelled forward,
00:22:09all that matters is my ability to fly that aircraft.
00:22:12And that feeling is something that I have found and I have, from day one, wanted to hold on to.
00:22:18When I went to college, and my parents knew I wanted to be a pilot since I was 14 years old,
00:22:24but they insisted that I went to university.
00:22:26So I went to UC San Diego, and I got a degree in an area that I really just had an interest in as a hobby,
00:22:34but nothing to do with aviation.
00:22:36So I got a psychology degree.
00:22:37It was almost like I took a seven-year vacation from learning anything about aviation.
00:22:42And then once I was done with that, walked onto the airport,
00:22:46started interviewing which flight school I wanted to go to.
00:22:49Got my pilot's rating in 34 days.
00:22:51Haven't left the airport since.
00:22:56Mrs. Jerry Mott pauses briefly in Oakland, California,
00:22:59as she nears the end of a successful round-the-world solo flight.
00:23:03After a quick check-out of her 11-year-old light plane,
00:23:06the Ohio housewife prepares to take off for Columbus on the final leg of a 23,000-mile journey.
00:23:12With 21 stops in 29 days, she is the first woman to make the solo world flight,
00:23:17and she's racked up a flock of records in the bargain
00:23:19as she arrives to a hearty greeting in Columbus.
00:23:23Tired but happy, Mrs. Mott receives a governmental award for her feat.
00:23:27Honor for a high-flying housewife.
00:23:29Well, I knew I wanted to fly myself.
00:23:37You know, I wanted to earn my private pilot's license.
00:23:39I wanted to be able to get off the planet myself in an airplane.
00:23:44So I, after high school, went to the local community college.
00:23:50They had this great program called Aviation Administration.
00:23:52It was basically a kind of aviation business degree or an introduction to it.
00:23:56But as part of it, you could earn your private pilot's license.
00:23:59I really had to figure out what is it I wanted to do.
00:24:02And that was more wanting to know how things fly.
00:24:06And that's what led me down the aeronautical engineering path.
00:24:10And so I just continued to pursue the, kind of, the love of flying
00:24:14from the standpoint of how do things fly.
00:24:17And that led me to NASA as a NASA engineer.
00:24:20Jacqueline Cochran had been trying since 1938 or 1939 to convince the Army Air Corps
00:24:27that they should be training women as well as men.
00:24:31One day in the newspaper, there appeared an article about Mrs. Sheehy,
00:24:36who was going to be interviewing for those who might want to enter the WASP training.
00:24:42Wasping the women Air Force Service pilots.
00:24:46I think there were only, when the war started, December 7th, 1941,
00:24:5230,000 qualified male pilots.
00:24:57The main reason that we were formed was to relieve men for active duty.
00:25:02Let's see if the women can do all the jobs.
00:25:05Now, there were many jobs to be done.
00:25:08And eventually, we were stationed at 150 different bases.
00:25:12And that's how I got started in flying for the Army Air Corps.
00:25:17Always interested in aerobatics, but I'd never seen it.
00:25:20I'd never been to an air show.
00:25:22I started saying to my husband, I really am interested in aerobatics.
00:25:25And I was sitting in a little FBO in Michigan,
00:25:29and I found the Sport Aerobatics Magazine,
00:25:31which is the International Aerobatic Club Magazine.
00:25:33And I said, look, there's a whole club devoted to this.
00:25:38There's contests and articles about it.
00:25:41I was just fascinated.
00:25:42I read every single word.
00:25:43So we said, okay, let's go to an air show,
00:25:45and we'll go to a competition and see how you like it.
00:25:47So we flew our plane.
00:25:49We had a Cessna 185, and we flew our plane down to Canada
00:25:52and went to an air show.
00:25:53And then we flew it to Minnesota or to Wisconsin to a contest.
00:25:58And I got to see that, too.
00:26:00And I was just blown away.
00:26:02I said, that's what I want to do.
00:26:04I can do that.
00:26:05My first 10 hours of aerobatics was with a woman in Anchorage, Alaska,
00:26:08and in her decathlon.
00:26:10It took me a while to find a teacher, and I loved it.
00:26:13I was so excited about doing it,
00:26:15I was afraid for some reason it wouldn't agree with me
00:26:17and I wouldn't be good at it.
00:26:18That was my big fear.
00:26:19But when I had to go up the first time and do it,
00:26:21it was a big deal.
00:26:22I went up really high, went, okay, you know,
00:26:25you've got to put your money where your mouth is here, you know.
00:26:33So we're at the Florida Strawberry Festival,
00:26:36and I'm dropping off my two chickens, Georgia and Bessie.
00:26:40I named some of my chickens after female aviators
00:26:42because I'm really into aviation,
00:26:44and I thought it would be a good name for them.
00:26:47and kind of their colors,
00:26:49it kind of reminded me of the flight suits and stuff that they wore.
00:26:54Shh.
00:26:57It's okay.
00:26:58Good girl.
00:27:03Good girl.
00:27:06Don't be stressed out.
00:27:08It's gonna be okay.
00:27:08I love my chickens and I take them to shows and raise chickens.
00:27:21Build Legos, obviously.
00:27:25And I also like golfing.
00:27:28We originally sent her to a green school, an all-green school.
00:27:34They had a garden and such.
00:27:37They also had chickens.
00:27:39It was a great school, A school, A-rated school.
00:27:42There was a waiting list to get in.
00:27:43A friend of mine had gone, myself, gone and looked.
00:27:47She's a teacher, and she was looking at different teachers' options.
00:27:51And they had an open house of lots of different schools,
00:27:55and we found an open house.
00:27:56We weren't thinking of changing her schools,
00:27:59but they had flight simulators in an elementary school.
00:28:03And I was like, whoa.
00:28:05And so Joel and I decided to make the switch,
00:28:09which is crazy because the school really didn't get rated the highest.
00:28:15But you know what?
00:28:16It rated the highest for her needs.
00:28:19It had what she needed, what she craved, what she thrived in.
00:28:23And I think it has expanded her horizons and made her think so far outside the box
00:28:29and on a whole different level.
00:28:34Ladies and gentlemen, what you've just seen is wave man is not intended to fly.
00:28:39And let me tell you what, that's not a man flying.
00:28:42That's many-time national champion Patty Wagstaff.
00:28:45In her extra aircraft, ladies and gentlemen,
00:28:49one of the most skilled pilots on the air show circa today,
00:28:52a three-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champ,
00:28:55six-time member of the U.S. Aerobatic Team,
00:28:58and a six-time winner of the Betty Skelton First Lady of Aerobatics Award.
00:29:02Patty's won so many awards for her flying.
00:29:05In 2004, she was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
00:29:09She's received both the National Air and Space Museum for Current Achievement
00:29:13and the U.S. Air Force Lifetime Achievement Award.
00:29:18And the airplane, the early one she flew, the prototype Extra 260,
00:29:22hangs in the U.S. National Air and Space Museum,
00:29:25very close to those of Amelia Earhart.
00:29:28Basically, I spent, you know, seven years of my life just thinking, eating, breathing,
00:29:34being a full-time, you know, professional aerobatic pilot.
00:29:39With the goal of winning the Nationals.
00:29:41The men didn't see that a woman could win the Nationals.
00:29:44And so, the overall championship.
00:29:46Then I started seeing, you know, the sexism and the mindset.
00:29:52This isn't a sport like tennis where we're built differently.
00:29:54This is an airplane, and the airplane doesn't know the difference.
00:29:58And so I said, well, you know, why hasn't a woman won the Nationals?
00:30:01And the men would say, well, women aren't aggressive enough.
00:30:07Or, well, the judges would never let it happen.
00:30:10Or, you know, they just don't have what it takes.
00:30:12I saw it as an education process of, you know, of course a woman can win.
00:30:16You know, we don't do anything any different.
00:30:18The airplane doesn't know the difference.
00:30:20And there's no reason why a woman can't win.
00:30:22Then after I won the first time, a friend said, you know, you've got to win again.
00:30:25I'm like, why is that?
00:30:26He said, because they'll think it's a fluke, because you're a woman.
00:30:29So you have to do more than a guy would have to do.
00:30:33So I made it my goal to win three times.
00:30:36And since then, a number of women have won the U.S. Nationals, which is really cool.
00:30:40And the next woman that won it, somebody came up and said, so how do you feel?
00:30:44Do you feel jealous?
00:30:45And I said, are you kidding?
00:30:46That's just what I would hope for.
00:30:48I was hoping that other women would win.
00:30:50And I was tired of being this kind of a freak and a fluke.
00:30:53And, well, she's different.
00:30:55You know, she's more aggressive, which is not true.
00:30:58I just put the same into it than anybody else would.
00:31:05When Patty gets a good sight on it, she's going to turn that extra in the inverted position
00:31:09and see if she can't cut the ribbon upside down while approaching it at approximately 120 miles an hour.
00:31:17I believe the ribbon is in peril.
00:31:19Let's keep your eyes on her.
00:31:20Get those cameras rolling.
00:31:23She comes down on the deck.
00:31:25Watch for her to go to the inverted position.
00:31:28And line up on that ribbon.
00:31:31I think that ribbon's lifespan is going to be very short.
00:31:33Here she comes.
00:31:35Remember, less than 22 feet off the ground.
00:31:38Inverted show, Senator.
00:31:41Oh, that ribbon is a dead man.
00:31:43She's got a beautiful job.
00:31:44How about that?
00:31:45Give her a big round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
00:31:47With us, Patty Wagstaff.
00:32:00This is Texas, cradle of our Army's Air Force.
00:32:03This is an AAF field, too.
00:32:06But over headquarters rides a strange little girl gremlin called Fifinella.
00:32:10And out of those buses are stepping girls.
00:32:13Girls who give a new angle to an Air Force story.
00:32:16They're WASPs.
00:32:17Women's Air Force service pilots.
00:32:18It was experimental.
00:32:22The Army Air Corps didn't know whether women would be capable of living the military life
00:32:28and flying the military aircraft.
00:32:30Here we were, trained just the way the male cadets were trained.
00:32:34Up at 6 a.m., a half a day of flying and a half a day of ground school.
00:32:41And everything was military.
00:32:43We were treated military all the way through.
00:32:46And yet, we were not military.
00:32:49Fortunately, I always had good instructors.
00:32:53And they were serious about it.
00:32:55They didn't mind teaching a female.
00:32:57There were some instructors that resented the fact, I mean, this is their field, flying airplanes.
00:33:07Women should not be flying airplanes.
00:33:10And there was one incident where women were sent to B-26 school.
00:33:18And when they got there, the instructor that was supposed to check them out, the B-26 said,
00:33:25I'm not teaching any damn women how to fly.
00:33:29Well, he had to.
00:33:31It was an order.
00:33:32Once you graduated, had your wings and were sent to a field to do something,
00:33:37some of the commanding officers there, they did not want women on their base.
00:33:44A lot of people had a misconception and did not really, really know exactly what we were doing.
00:33:53Now, there were many jobs to be done.
00:33:57You need to fly gunners so they have practice shooting from a moving aircraft.
00:34:02You need tow targets so the anti-aircraft can practice shooting.
00:34:06You need pilots to fly at night so the beams have practice.
00:34:10So all of those involve a pilot.
00:34:13Sometimes the anti-aircraft gunners that were learning how to shoot them would hit the airplane instead of the target.
00:34:24And there was one case where the aircraft crashed and she couldn't get the hatch open.
00:34:33And then there was another case where someone had put sugar in the gas tank.
00:34:39And when that aircraft took off, it crashed and she was killed.
00:34:44There were 38 of us that were killed in the line of service.
00:34:48So it was not a frivolous job.
00:34:54Graduation day means that they've grown up.
00:34:56They're Army flyers.
00:34:58As they know, their experience here has been no interlude for romantic adventure,
00:35:02but a period of intensive training for a highly important job.
00:35:05At the moment, there's a bill in Congress to bring them into the Air Force.
00:35:09In June of 1944, the bill was defeated that would have made us a part of the Army Air Corps.
00:35:18And, you know, you had other people in service.
00:35:21I mean, the WACs had their Women's Corps, the WAVES, the SPARS.
00:35:27They were all recognized and they were all given the benefits.
00:35:32And the WASP were not, even though we were treated as military.
00:35:38When we all knew that we were going to be disbanded December 20th,
00:35:42we decided to have an organization.
00:35:46The main purpose at that time was to get information about what kind of flying jobs there were
00:35:53and get the information out.
00:35:55And then we would have reunions.
00:35:58So this organization continued on.
00:36:01I was the president of the organization from 75 to 78.
00:36:05and Colonel Arnold, General Arnold's son,
00:36:10came to one of our reunions and he said,
00:36:13because he was a lobbyist in Washington,
00:36:16and he said,
00:36:17I will help you girls to get recognition as veterans of World War II,
00:36:23which he did.
00:36:24And incidentally, we were issued the Congressional Gold Medal given to us by Congress.
00:36:36And this is a small replica of the medal.
00:36:46The other one, if I put it on a chain, I'd be walking like this.
00:36:52It's big.
00:36:53For as they go up to receive their wings from the top woman pilot of them all,
00:36:58the founder of the WASPs, Miss Jacqueline Cochran,
00:37:01each WASP, like other women in other services, has achieved no little thing.
00:37:06She's gone into a man's world because the men needed her,
00:37:09gone through a tough ordeal as just a girl,
00:37:12and come out a girl pilot with the U.S. Army Air Force.
00:37:15The one thing that pleases me the most is that I got my wings.
00:37:25That here's this gal who came from nowhere,
00:37:31and she's flying an airplane, and she's earning her wings.
00:37:45I wasn't nervous. I was excited about it.
00:37:53I'd waited about six weeks to get my first hop up,
00:37:56and I was in the front seat, and it was pretty awesome.
00:37:59It was pretty awesome.
00:38:00The Cobra flies pretty aggressively, nose down,
00:38:03when you're just traveling, about 130 knots, about 90 degrees, nose down.
00:38:06So how you see the aircraft here is straight and level,
00:38:10and it's, you know, going through the sky, like, you know, ready to attack, basically.
00:38:15So it's awesome. Awesome feeling.
00:38:19When I moved to my fleet helicopter,
00:38:22which was the AH-1 Whiskey Super Cobra in the Marine Corps,
00:38:26just amazing.
00:38:28When you see it in pictures, it just, it doesn't look that big,
00:38:31and I remember the first time walking into the hangar,
00:38:33and I walked through the door, and this huge thing just loomed in front of me,
00:38:36and it was like, wow, really speechless for a moment.
00:38:41Wow, I'm going to be flying that.
00:38:43Then you learn to fly the Cobra.
00:38:45Then you learn to fight the Cobra,
00:38:47where flying just becomes second nature.
00:38:50Now it's a machine in battle, saving lives.
00:38:57We had been out for a little over an hour.
00:38:59We were taken at a target that was known to have munitions in it.
00:39:03You know, bombs, missiles, explosives, C4s, rocket,
00:39:09anything and everything the enemy could use to create IEDs, improvised explosive devices.
00:39:17Hour into the mission, we got a call from one of the ground controllers,
00:39:20and you could hear the desperation in this guy's voice.
00:39:24He said, Viper, we have Marines and soldiers pinned down north of the cemetery,
00:39:29and they need your help.
00:39:31In that moment, if you could have felt the acid bomb explode in my stomach,
00:39:35because we had been out for a little over an hour,
00:39:38and that meant we probably maybe only had 20 minutes of fuel left on the aircraft.
00:39:44And on top of that, we only had one missile left on our aircraft,
00:39:48because we'd been trying to take out that target.
00:39:52Gutsy move.
00:39:54Marines don't leave Marines behind.
00:39:56Next ground controller checks in, even more desperate than the first guy.
00:40:00Viper, we're pinned down.
00:40:02We don't have any ammunition to shoot backwards.
00:40:04We don't even have any green smoke to mark our position.
00:40:07Let me know when you can see the glint from my mirror.
00:40:12When you were down to signaling with a mirror the size of the palm of your hand,
00:40:17you're in trouble.
00:40:19As I scanned down into that cemetery, looking for any sign of our friendly forces,
00:40:23I saw a small glint come back.
00:40:25Contact, I see you.
00:40:26Viper, do you see that road in front of me running from east to west?
00:40:30Follow it to the west.
00:40:32You're going to see another road that runs north and south.
00:40:34Follow it to the south.
00:40:36You're going to see a building with a tower sticking out of it,
00:40:38with a blue dome at the top.
00:40:39Call when you're going to contact that building.
00:40:42Follow the road to the west.
00:40:44Follow the road to the south.
00:40:45Building, tower, blue dome.
00:40:49Break right, break right!
00:40:50I quickly yell out.
00:40:50Why?
00:40:51Because now small arms fire is coming out of that tower,
00:40:54trying to take us out of the sky.
00:40:55We flew around.
00:40:57I turned that selector switch over to that very last missile.
00:40:59We pop up over the ridge.
00:41:00We're now searching, scanning for our target.
00:41:02Target in sight.
00:41:03Aircraft pops up.
00:41:04Finger on the trigger.
00:41:04Waiting to come in range.
00:41:06And waiting for that magical phrase,
00:41:08you have permission to engage.
00:41:10We got the phrase.
00:41:11I pulled the trigger.
00:41:12Missile away!
00:41:12I called out.
00:41:13Nothing happened.
00:41:14Marines and soldiers on the ground,
00:41:17inevitably getting ready to go into hand-to-hand combat
00:41:20if we didn't come through.
00:41:22We reset a couple switches,
00:41:24turn the selector switch back over to the last missile
00:41:26for one final try.
00:41:28Pull the trigger.
00:41:30Missile comes off the rail.
00:41:32Impact the target.
00:41:33Pull off to the right.
00:41:34Head back to base.
00:41:35Check in with the duty officer.
00:41:38What happened with the mission?
00:41:39Ma'am, target was destroyed.
00:41:41Marines and soldiers will be coming home tonight.
00:41:43It was absolutely amazing
00:41:44and an experience I will never forget.
00:41:47But that's not even it.
00:41:49So now I'm back at home,
00:41:51back from the deployment,
00:41:53and I'm standing in the hospital line
00:41:55waiting for a routine doctor's appointment.
00:41:57And I'm talking to the Marine in front of me.
00:41:58Hey, Marine, how you doing?
00:41:59What's going on?
00:42:00He said, well, ma'am,
00:42:00I have some shrapnel in my left leg.
00:42:02I said, whoa, shrapnel?
00:42:03Were you recently deployed?
00:42:04He said, yes, ma'am.
00:42:05Iraq, 11th mute.
00:42:07I said, hey, I was in Iraq.
00:42:08I was your Cobra air support.
00:42:10He said, oh, ma'am, you fly Cobras?
00:42:13We were in the cemetery.
00:42:15We were pinned down.
00:42:16A Cobra came in, shot a missile.
00:42:18I was like, wait a minute.
00:42:19That sounds like a mission I was on.
00:42:21Paired it up.
00:42:22Same mission, same aircraft, same missile.
00:42:25And we started hooping and hollering
00:42:26right there in the middle of the hospital.
00:42:27And then he just stopped and he said,
00:42:29ma'am, you saved my life.
00:42:32Just a few years ago,
00:42:56Shasta Ways was a student
00:42:57at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
00:42:59Now the Afghanistan-born pilot
00:43:02is flying this plane around the world.
00:43:05She's aiming to be the youngest woman ever
00:43:07to complete a solo round-the-world flight.
00:43:10She started here in Daytona Beach, Florida
00:43:12and plans to make 34 stops,
00:43:14including those in Europe, Egypt, India,
00:43:18Thailand, and Australia.
00:43:20Just 3% of the world's pilots are women,
00:43:23and it's something Shasta Ways
00:43:24and the industry are hoping to change.
00:43:27She hopes it will inspire the next generation
00:43:30of female pilots to soar.
00:43:33Whitney Hurst, Al Jazeera.
00:43:35When I told my family that I first wanted
00:43:37to fly around the world,
00:43:39it was a lot of,
00:43:41great, I hope it works out.
00:43:43You know, in the back of their minds,
00:43:45they thought, well, she's young.
00:43:47This is an ambition that every pilot must want to do.
00:43:50And they didn't really take it serious.
00:43:52When they saw other people investing in me
00:43:55and this dream that I had,
00:43:57that's when they realized
00:43:59this is something she's going to pursue.
00:44:01I wanted to do something for those girls,
00:44:04for girls all over the world,
00:44:06to show them that, you know,
00:44:08no matter where you come from,
00:44:10what background you are from,
00:44:12you can excel, you can soar.
00:44:15Now, an Afghan pilot hoping to become
00:44:18the youngest woman in history
00:44:19to complete a solo run around the world
00:44:22just took on the transatlantic leg of her journey.
00:44:26She wants to be an inspiration.
00:44:28And in Afghanistan,
00:44:29Shais Dawaiz is welcomed as a hero.
00:44:32She inspires Afghan girls
00:44:34who have big dreams for their future
00:44:35and to do something about those dreams.
00:44:38Like me, I want to be a pilot.
00:44:40Dawaiz says she plans to have events like this
00:44:41at most of her 30 stops around the world
00:44:43to encourage young people,
00:44:45especially women and girls,
00:44:46to get involved in science, technology,
00:44:48engineering, and math.
00:44:50If she completes the journey,
00:44:51Wais will become only the eighth woman ever
00:44:53to fly solo around the world
00:44:55and the first Afghan.
00:44:57Dreamstore Global Flight consisted of 145 days
00:45:00flying around the world,
00:45:0225,000 nautical miles across five continents.
00:45:06I had the chance of visiting 22 different countries,
00:45:09but most importantly,
00:45:11it was me meeting with 3,000 children face-to-face
00:45:15and introducing them to aviation and STEM.
00:45:19My co-pilot was a 59-gallon aluminum fuel tank,
00:45:23and my passengers,
00:45:25all those back seats were removed,
00:45:26and it was a 125-gallon fuel tank
00:45:29that sat right directly behind me.
00:45:32My seat was pretty stiff.
00:45:34I couldn't incline my seat back.
00:45:36It was just, you know,
00:45:37this small area that I had to work with.
00:45:39And to get in and outside of the aircraft,
00:45:43the Bonanza only has one side door
00:45:45that's located on the co-pilot seat.
00:45:48So I literally had to jump over my co-pilot fuel tank
00:45:51to get into my seat,
00:45:53and that's how I flew around the world.
00:45:57In total,
00:45:57I carried 300 gallons of aviation gasoline,
00:46:02and my longest leg where I needed that much fuel
00:46:06was across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to California.
00:46:10It was 14 and a half hours of being in the same position
00:46:15over the big blue, the big Pacific Ocean, by myself.
00:46:19There was a very thick overcast layer that came over,
00:46:24and the sun had set behind me.
00:46:27So for about three hours,
00:46:29I was in complete IFR weather conditions
00:46:31where it felt like my aircraft was not moving
00:46:35because I had no references outside to look at.
00:46:38So I just kept my eyes inside the cockpit,
00:46:41looking at my instruments,
00:46:42and I just remember when I saw that San Francisco coast,
00:46:46I was just dancing in my seat,
00:46:49like, yes, I see land.
00:46:52An Afghan pilot has made history
00:46:54by becoming the youngest woman
00:46:56to complete a solo flight around the world
00:46:58in a single-engine aircraft.
00:46:59Shasta Way has completed a 25,000-mile
00:47:02or 40,000-kilometer journey
00:47:04after landing her Beechcraft Bonanza A-36 aircraft
00:47:08in Florida October 4th.
00:47:09For United News International, I'm Mila Uni.
00:47:12I hope that you know that your legacy
00:47:14will be measured in the service
00:47:16of every woman who follows
00:47:17in the trails that you've blazed,
00:47:20every woman who benefits
00:47:21from your daring and determination.
00:47:25It will be measured in the inspiration
00:47:27that you provide to our daughters
00:47:29and our granddaughters
00:47:30and to our sons and our grandsons as well.
00:47:34When they ask what kind of jobs they can do,
00:47:38they can look to women like all of you
00:47:39who've played just about every kind of role imaginable.
00:47:43They can look to Tammy Duckworth,
00:47:45who flew combat missions in Iraq
00:47:48and lost both her legs
00:47:49when her helicopter was hit by a grenade.
00:47:52She went on to become a fearless advocate
00:47:55for veterans and wounded warriors
00:47:56and now serves as Assistant Secretary
00:47:59of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
00:48:01at the Veterans Affairs Department.
00:48:04Thank you, Tammy.
00:48:07In Iraq, I was the Assistant Operations Officer.
00:48:11My job was to coordinate missions
00:48:13for our battalion task force,
00:48:1644 aircraft.
00:48:18And then I also begged and pleaded
00:48:19and weedled my way into getting to fly
00:48:21twice a week,
00:48:22which was the best part of my job.
00:48:24It was important to me to fly the missions
00:48:26because I didn't want to be sending other pilots
00:48:28out on the missions outside the wire
00:48:30and facing a danger
00:48:32if I wasn't also doing it,
00:48:33but also because I just love to fly.
00:48:36And it was freedom
00:48:37and it was exhilarating
00:48:39and the more time I spend the military flying,
00:48:44the more I realize I'm a little bit
00:48:45of an adrenaline junkie
00:48:46and a speed demon
00:48:47and I got to do that
00:48:49and being with my guys in the aircraft
00:48:52was just the best,
00:48:55most rewarding thing
00:48:55I've ever done in my entire life.
00:48:57And so I wanted to do that.
00:48:59And it was just a regular mission
00:49:01on a regular day.
00:49:02I'd been flying all day long
00:49:04and we got hit by the enemy.
00:49:06This was about the time frame
00:49:08of the second battle for Fallujah.
00:49:10So it was a pretty rough time
00:49:11and we were outside,
00:49:12a little ways away from Fallujah
00:49:13and what got me was some insurgents
00:49:15who'd been flushed out of Fallujah
00:49:16and they got lucky
00:49:18and they shot us down.
00:49:21I was passing in and out,
00:49:22but we were able to land the aircraft.
00:49:24If I help any,
00:49:26then that's great,
00:49:28but really the pilot in command,
00:49:29Chief Foreign Officer Dan Milberg
00:49:31is a true hero of the day
00:49:32and got me to safety.
00:49:34And then I spent 13 months
00:49:35in the hospital recovering,
00:49:37trying to get back to my unit.
00:49:39I learned to take calculated risks
00:49:41and not to be afraid of failure
00:49:43when I went through the military.
00:49:46That's the biggest thing.
00:49:47Prior to the military,
00:49:48I tended to be a perfectionist
00:49:51and I would not have taken a risk
00:49:53that I didn't know
00:49:54I could definitely ace and achieve.
00:49:57And going to flight school
00:49:58was the first thing I ever really did
00:49:59that was I didn't know
00:50:01if I was going to be able to do it.
00:50:02But I knew I was going to try
00:50:04and I knew that I knew
00:50:05how to work hard.
00:50:06I was by no means
00:50:07the best natural pilot in my class,
00:50:10but I logged more simulator hours
00:50:12than anybody in my class
00:50:13because I would fly the entire day
00:50:16and then I would go fly
00:50:17three additional hours every night
00:50:19and then just to make sure
00:50:22I was as competitive as I could be.
00:50:23And I knew how to work hard.
00:50:25I actually ended up serving 13 more years
00:50:27after I lost my legs.
00:50:29When Senator Durbin and Senator Obama
00:50:31came to me and said,
00:50:32we think you should run for Congress,
00:50:34I had that foundation
00:50:36of willingness to try
00:50:37and knowing that
00:50:38no matter what happened,
00:50:40I knew how to work hard.
00:50:42And if I didn't achieve
00:50:43what I was trying,
00:50:44that would be okay.
00:50:44And I didn't, I lost.
00:50:45I lost that election.
00:50:46It was devastating to me,
00:50:47but I knew I gave it
00:50:48everything that I had.
00:50:50And so I was able to walk away
00:50:51from that holding my head high,
00:50:54which I think gave me the strength
00:50:56to six years later,
00:50:57try another run.
00:50:58We are just as proud
00:51:00of all the Thai Americans
00:51:02who enrich our country.
00:51:04In fact, I was mentioning
00:51:05to His Majesty
00:51:06that my friend
00:51:08Lata Tammy Duckworth
00:51:11just became the first
00:51:12Thai American woman
00:51:14ever to be elected
00:51:15to our Congress.
00:51:16And she's from my home state
00:51:17of Illinois,
00:51:18so I'm especially proud of her.
00:51:31Kennedy Space Center native
00:51:33Nicole Stott,
00:51:34who worked here
00:51:35processing shuttles
00:51:36for many years
00:51:37before becoming an astronaut.
00:51:38She's Mission Specialist 4.
00:51:42This is a very historical walkway.
00:51:44It's the same path
00:51:45that the Apollo astronauts
00:51:46took to go to the moon.
00:51:48And over the last 30 years,
00:51:50there's been 133-odd shuttle crews
00:51:53that have walked out here
00:51:54to catch this bus
00:51:55for the exciting ride
00:51:57out to the launch pad.
00:51:59All systems are go.
00:52:01About 90 seconds away
00:52:02from the launch
00:52:02of Space Shuttle Discovery
00:52:04on her final mission.
00:52:0520 seconds.
00:52:08The sound suppression water system
00:52:10has been activated,
00:52:12protecting Discovery
00:52:13and the launch pad
00:52:14from acoustical energy waves.
00:52:17Go for main engine start.
00:52:20We have main engine start.
00:52:223, 2, 1, booster ignition
00:52:27and the final liftoff
00:52:29of Discovery,
00:52:30a tribute to the dedication,
00:52:32hard work and pride
00:52:33of America's Space Shuttle team.
00:52:35The shuttle has cleared the tower.
00:52:36I didn't get selected
00:53:00that first time
00:53:01and I was upset.
00:53:03I mean, I remember being upset about it,
00:53:05but it wasn't surprising to me.
00:53:08But I didn't find it discouraging either.
00:53:11I found it like,
00:53:12okay, you went through this
00:53:13and now two years from now,
00:53:15they'll do another selection
00:53:16and apply again.
00:53:17But I also got really lucky
00:53:19that first time
00:53:20because they offered me a job
00:53:22out at the Johnson Space Center
00:53:23flying on the shuttle training aircraft
00:53:26as a flight engineer.
00:53:27So I was going to get to sit center seat
00:53:29in this airplane that's modified
00:53:31like you wouldn't want
00:53:32any airplane to be modified
00:53:33so it could, you know,
00:53:35approach the runway
00:53:35like a space shuttle does
00:53:37with an astronaut in the left seat
00:53:40that you're training
00:53:41and the instructor pilot
00:53:42in the right seat
00:53:43and I was going to get to be
00:53:44like the flight engineer
00:53:45would be on the space shuttle.
00:53:47And it was awesome.
00:53:48It was exactly like the kinds of things
00:53:51you would have to do
00:53:51if you were flying on a space shuttle.
00:53:53And two years later,
00:53:54I interviewed again
00:53:55and was selected.
00:53:57I don't ever remember being afraid.
00:54:00I remember being very respectful,
00:54:02very, you know,
00:54:03acknowledging the place I was,
00:54:07what I was about to do.
00:54:09But I also felt very trained.
00:54:11The fear for me
00:54:12was more about how,
00:54:15what my family was experiencing.
00:54:17Because I know
00:54:18it's a lot more difficult
00:54:19to watch somebody strap
00:54:21into a rocket to fly
00:54:23than it is to be the person
00:54:25strapping in.
00:54:26My first time flying,
00:54:28my son was seven.
00:54:29And the idea of something
00:54:31happening to him on Earth
00:54:33and not being able to get there,
00:54:35that's where, like, fear
00:54:37and maybe a little of the stress
00:54:40of it was for me.
00:54:42So I had the chance to talk
00:54:44to a lot of people
00:54:45who had flown before
00:54:46to watch a lot of
00:54:47space shuttle launches.
00:54:48So in my mind,
00:54:49I'd kind of convinced myself
00:54:51that I knew what it would be like.
00:54:53You just can't prepare yourself
00:54:54for it.
00:54:54And I did it a second time
00:54:56thinking, ooh,
00:54:56I did that before.
00:54:57You know, now I know
00:54:58what it's like.
00:54:58Well, it's like you're doing
00:54:59it all over again.
00:55:01And as a shuttle crew,
00:55:03you would get out there
00:55:04to the pad a couple hours
00:55:06before launch.
00:55:07And you'd get all strapped in.
00:55:08You're, you know,
00:55:09you're laying on your back
00:55:10because the vehicle's
00:55:11facing up.
00:55:12And it really, though,
00:55:14for the crew,
00:55:15wasn't until about 20 minutes
00:55:16before launch
00:55:17that you would actively
00:55:18get involved
00:55:19with the countdown.
00:55:20Six seconds
00:55:21is where all this fuel
00:55:22in that big orange tank
00:55:23would start flowing
00:55:24to the three main engines
00:55:25at the back of the shuttle.
00:55:27And I always thought
00:55:28that would be really dynamic.
00:55:30I thought I'd be shaken
00:55:31all over the place with that.
00:55:32I thought it would be
00:55:33really loud.
00:55:34But it wasn't.
00:55:35It was more kind of a,
00:55:37just like a muffly sound
00:55:39in the headset
00:55:40and a little bit
00:55:41of vibration.
00:55:43And at zero,
00:55:44that's when
00:55:45those two big white
00:55:47solid rocket boosters lit.
00:55:48and that was
00:55:49the holy moly
00:55:50was I ever on a launch pad.
00:55:52You know,
00:55:52you felt like
00:55:53you were kicked from behind.
00:55:54Felt like all of a sudden
00:55:55three of you
00:55:55are starting to crawl
00:55:56on top of you.
00:55:57You're shaking like,
00:55:59I mean,
00:56:00I've watched the cockpit video.
00:56:02It does not show what,
00:56:04I mean,
00:56:04it shows shaking,
00:56:04but it does not show
00:56:05what you were feeling.
00:56:06I mean,
00:56:06it felt like jello inside
00:56:08the way you're shaking.
00:56:09The first minute and a half
00:56:11of a shuttle launch,
00:56:13all the crew can really do
00:56:14is monitor,
00:56:15you know,
00:56:15monitor their systems
00:56:16on the display.
00:56:17You know,
00:56:17about two and a half minutes
00:56:18later,
00:56:19the boosters separate
00:56:20and they do that
00:56:21not gracefully.
00:56:22It's a big bang,
00:56:22a big flash.
00:56:28And then all that
00:56:29vibration goes away,
00:56:30but you still feel like
00:56:31you have three of you
00:56:32sitting on top of you.
00:56:34And for another
00:56:35about six minutes,
00:56:36then the tank separates,
00:56:38another big bang,
00:56:39big flash.
00:56:39and then you go from
00:56:41shaking,
00:56:43weighted down
00:56:44to just kind of like
00:56:45liberated.
00:56:46You're,
00:56:46you know,
00:56:47from zero to eight and a half minutes,
00:56:49you've gone from being
00:56:50on that launch pad
00:56:51to orbiting the planet
00:56:53at 17,500 miles an hour
00:56:55and just floating.
00:56:58I mean,
00:56:58your arms float up,
00:57:00your pencil floats up
00:57:01on the end of the tether,
00:57:02anything that's not tied down
00:57:03is floating up around you,
00:57:05and you just absolutely
00:57:07can't wait to get
00:57:08out of the seat
00:57:08and see what it's going
00:57:09to be like to fly.
00:57:11I mean,
00:57:11literally fly yourself
00:57:13in space.
00:57:14That first view
00:57:15out the window
00:57:16is actually,
00:57:18I would say every view,
00:57:19every time you had
00:57:20the opportunity
00:57:20to look out the window.
00:57:21It's,
00:57:22it's just like launch was.
00:57:24It's overwhelmingly
00:57:25impressive
00:57:26and in different ways
00:57:28than launch was for sure,
00:57:30but just in this kind of
00:57:31like beautiful,
00:57:32unexpected,
00:57:33gonna surprise you
00:57:35every time,
00:57:36glowing planet
00:57:37kind of way.
00:57:39And it's another one
00:57:40of those things
00:57:41where I looked
00:57:42at a lot of pictures,
00:57:43I looked at a lot of video,
00:57:44I talked to people
00:57:45about that,
00:57:47you know,
00:57:47view out the window,
00:57:48but nothing prepares you
00:57:50for what it really is like.
00:57:53And it stays with you.
00:57:59It's, I mean,
00:57:59I think about that first flight
00:58:01in the airplane
00:58:01where, you know,
00:58:03or those first flights
00:58:03and airplanes
00:58:04where you really
00:58:05are appreciating
00:58:07from a totally new perspective,
00:58:10you know,
00:58:10who and where you are
00:58:11by separating from it.
00:58:14And,
00:58:15and that's what I felt like
00:58:16all the time
00:58:17in space was,
00:58:19wow,
00:58:19I'm really,
00:58:20I am blessed with this gift
00:58:21that's allowing me
00:58:22to consider,
00:58:23you know,
00:58:24who I am
00:58:24and where I'm from
00:58:26in a whole new,
00:58:27really special way.
00:58:28the space station program
00:58:30to me
00:58:31has been just
00:58:32the best example
00:58:34of how we should be
00:58:36living and working
00:58:37here on Spaceship Earth
00:58:38and how we should be
00:58:40encouraging people
00:58:40to, you know,
00:58:42acknowledge their role
00:58:43as crew members
00:58:44on Spaceship Earth
00:58:45and not just be passengers.
00:58:48Space shuttle discovery,
00:58:49now on final approach
00:58:50to the Kennedy Space Center
00:58:52just more than 30 seconds
00:58:54to go.
00:59:05Spiver's gear is down
00:59:06and locked.
00:59:19Main gear touchdown.
00:59:20The nose of the shuttle
00:59:22being rotated down
00:59:23toward the flight deck.
00:59:25The parachute being deployed.
00:59:30And nose gear touchdown
00:59:32in the end
00:59:32of a historic journey.
00:59:34And to the ship
00:59:35that has led the way
00:59:36time and time again,
00:59:38we say farewell,
00:59:39discovery.
00:59:50It's just,
00:59:55I feel like I'm floating
00:59:56and I'm free.
00:59:56It's kind of,
00:59:57it's relaxing sometimes.
01:00:02It's not the same
01:00:03as a real plane,
01:00:04but the simulator
01:00:05does have some benefits.
01:00:07It's not like you have
01:00:08to book a flight.
01:00:09I'm about to do
01:00:10a barrel roll
01:00:12through Tampa,
01:00:15downtown Tampa.
01:00:16The plane doesn't judge me
01:00:19on how tiny I am
01:00:20or if I'm a girl.
01:00:28Nobody in my family
01:00:29was in aviation at all.
01:00:33Just me.
01:00:35Neither one of us
01:00:35are from the aviation field,
01:00:37so I'm like,
01:00:38I'm not really sure here.
01:00:40So, I mean,
01:00:41it was, you know,
01:00:43internet search
01:00:44or anytime I read,
01:00:45oh, there's a,
01:00:46you know,
01:00:48an air show
01:00:49over here
01:00:50at this field,
01:00:51we go to the air show.
01:00:53If there is,
01:00:55if there's a movie
01:00:56that comes out,
01:00:57we watch the movie.
01:00:58If there's a book,
01:01:00we read the book.
01:01:03We've gone and
01:01:04listened to talks
01:01:05from astronauts
01:01:06and such
01:01:07at museums,
01:01:08so we do
01:01:10just about anything.
01:01:13Most people
01:01:13don't get interested
01:01:15in aviation.
01:01:16They just think,
01:01:16oh, it's an airplane,
01:01:17it gives you travel,
01:01:19but it's more than that.
01:01:21My friends think
01:01:22it's kind of weird
01:01:23because none of them
01:01:24want to be a pilot.
01:01:25None of them have
01:01:26anything to do
01:01:26with it at all.
01:01:28So,
01:01:29like,
01:01:30someone just
01:01:31want to play,
01:01:32like, video games
01:01:33or something,
01:01:35and I want to fly airplanes,
01:01:37not on a video game.
01:01:38like a real airplane.
01:01:41I don't think
01:01:42they're not interested
01:01:43in aviation.
01:01:43I don't think
01:01:44they get the chance.
01:01:45They think,
01:01:46oh, I'm a girl,
01:01:47I can't do that.
01:01:48She doesn't let things
01:01:49stop her.
01:01:50She usually will go,
01:01:51I get,
01:01:53this is difficult,
01:01:54but I can do it.
01:01:55And she usually
01:01:57just takes a deep breath
01:01:58and just keeps on going.
01:02:01Aviation's given me
01:02:02so many opportunities,
01:02:03and it does
01:02:04to every pilot.
01:02:05It's just amazing
01:02:06where it's taken me.
01:02:07I've had opportunities
01:02:08to go train
01:02:09the Kenya Wildlife Service
01:02:10pilots in Kenya.
01:02:12It's been incredibly rewarding
01:02:13working with these pilots.
01:02:14I've gotten to be
01:02:15really good friends with them,
01:02:16and I've traveled
01:02:16all over Kenya.
01:02:17The thing that I'm doing now
01:02:18that I'm really,
01:02:19really excited about
01:02:20and that I just love
01:02:21to go to work every day
01:02:22and do is
01:02:23our aerobatic school
01:02:24here in St. Augustine, Florida.
01:02:26I'm finding that I love it
01:02:27more than almost anything
01:02:28I've done.
01:02:28It's just,
01:02:29it's been great.
01:02:31I had the chance
01:02:31to paint
01:02:32while I was in space,
01:02:33and I painted a picture
01:02:34of a place
01:02:35that I thought
01:02:35was really beautiful
01:02:36on Earth.
01:02:37The whole experience
01:02:38of watercolor painting
01:02:39in space
01:02:40is a little bit different,
01:02:41you know,
01:02:41with floating balls
01:02:42of water
01:02:42versus dipping your,
01:02:44you know,
01:02:44your brush in a glass.
01:02:45And when I was thinking
01:02:46about retiring from NASA,
01:02:48but wanting,
01:02:49really wanting
01:02:50to uniquely share
01:02:51the spaceflight experience,
01:02:53I kept coming back
01:02:55to that painting.
01:02:56That one painting
01:02:57has led to others,
01:02:58you know,
01:02:58and I'm doing art now
01:02:59as a post-NASA person.
01:03:02So about two months
01:03:03before my commercial rating,
01:03:05I started to ask
01:03:06all the businesses
01:03:07around Santa Monica Airport
01:03:10if they were hiring.
01:03:11Cirrus was just creating
01:03:12a job called
01:03:13a regional sales coordinator
01:03:14that moved airplanes
01:03:16for new customers
01:03:17and gave demo flights
01:03:18to support the sales staff.
01:03:20I got hired
01:03:21on my commercial rating
01:03:23on my birthday,
01:03:24and I even launched
01:03:25a company
01:03:26called the Abington Company.
01:03:28As I was doing
01:03:28this job of moving
01:03:30all these airplanes
01:03:31for Cirrus,
01:03:31which I did for two years,
01:03:33I really realized
01:03:34that ferrying airplanes
01:03:35and delivering them
01:03:36to customers
01:03:37was just a passion of mine.
01:03:39It's so much fun
01:03:40to take a small airplane,
01:03:42test your limits
01:03:43as a pilot,
01:03:44and expand your comfort zone
01:03:46and fly it
01:03:47across the Pacific Ocean.
01:03:48I love aviation
01:03:49because it's
01:03:51a whole different world.
01:03:52It's someplace
01:03:53that's so like a family,
01:03:55but it can take you
01:03:55anywhere in the world.
01:03:56and the more I'm in it,
01:03:59the more I see
01:04:00that there's more people
01:04:01to know,
01:04:02there's more things
01:04:03to see,
01:04:03there's more experiences.
01:04:04So becoming a pilot
01:04:06and working as a pilot,
01:04:07especially an airline pilot,
01:04:09you get to basically
01:04:10be wherever you end up
01:04:12and explore the whole world.
01:04:13You don't really
01:04:13see borders anymore,
01:04:14you just kind of see
01:04:15the whole world
01:04:17as a place to explore.
01:04:19Something that I do
01:04:20worry a lot about
01:04:21with having a goal
01:04:23or a dream
01:04:24that's this big
01:04:25and this far out
01:04:25in the future
01:04:26is what if I end up
01:04:2820 years down the road
01:04:29from here
01:04:30and I wasn't an astronaut.
01:04:32I don't regret it now.
01:04:33I can't imagine
01:04:33that I'll regret it
01:04:34in the future
01:04:35because this pursuit
01:04:36of becoming an astronaut,
01:04:38of going to Mars,
01:04:39has led me to have
01:04:40so many fantastic experiences
01:04:42in my life.
01:04:43The idea that it might happen
01:04:45makes it all worth it.
01:04:53is we're going
01:05:09to have
01:05:10to have
01:05:11to have
01:05:12our body.
01:05:13We're going
01:05:14to have
01:05:15to have
01:05:16our life.
01:05:17Let's go.
01:05:19Let's go.
01:05:20Let's go.
01:05:20Let's go.
01:05:20Let's go.
01:05:21La importante chose de ce que les femmes ont fait early dans l'aviation et l'industrie, c'est qu'ils se souhaitent.
01:05:31Et j'ai souvent dit qu'on dit, «Stand up and be counted » parce que vous n'avez jamais vu qui est comptant.
01:05:36Ils ne pouvaient pas être comptant.
01:05:38Les femmes, ils voulaient que ils puissent faire, qu'ils puissent faire, qu'ils puissent faire, qu'ils puissent faire, qu'ils puissent faire.
01:05:47Une des barrières que les femmes faceaient early dans l'aviation est vraiment provenant qu'ils puissent être en commande et qu'ils puissent faire des décisions.
01:05:57Ils puissent être autour des machines et des engines.
01:06:00Et je pense que c'était un struggle à l'avenir de changer cette perception que le monde avait de femmes.
01:06:07Et l'aviation à l'époque était tellement dangereuse.
01:06:11Planes were new, technologie was new.
01:06:13You didn't know what was going to happen, what was going to go wrong at any moment.
01:06:17So, for them to be willing to take that risk on top of being told,
01:06:21«Oh, you're a girl, you can't be doing » that kind of thing.
01:06:23And it was really, really phenomenal.
01:06:26They had to really have this amazing mental strength to kind of put themselves out there
01:06:31with the unfortunate result of having to be compared to their male counterparts.
01:06:36There were men at the time that were supporting of them.
01:06:39Will Rogers, Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart's husband, of course, was very supportive of women flying.
01:06:44But there were a lot of people, not just men, that were against women flying.
01:06:48There were other women against women flying saying they're making us look bad
01:06:52and they should be home taking care of their households.
01:06:55Even when Bessie Coleman wanted to fly and she couldn't fly here because she was black, right,
01:06:59because black folks weren't allowed to fly, she learned French and went to France and got her license.
01:07:05They weren't going to take no for an answer. They wanted to try something.
01:07:08They saw the adventure from Harry Quimby saying she wanted to fly across the English Channel
01:07:12and Concho Barnes to say,
01:07:14no, I'm not going to put a skirt on, I'm not going to put a dress on.
01:07:17They didn't stop at anything.
01:07:19Those were the true pioneers. Those were the women who paved a way for girls like me
01:07:24to envision myself in aviation, such a male-dominated industry.
01:07:29Some of the harassment that they went through, I mean, I can't, honestly, I can't even imagine some of the things that they went through.
01:07:34I'm able to walk down the trail because they blazed it. And that's just pretty amazing.
01:07:42Women have played an important role in aviation and aerospace history since the beginning.
01:07:47The early fliers, even from Catherine Wright, you know, through Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman,
01:07:52you know, they served as inspiration for the women that were in the air races, who then served for inspiration for the women who became the WASP in World War II.
01:08:01Every generation is laying the foundation for the next generation to reach higher, reach more goals, and achieve, you know, greater, greater dreams.
01:08:11I mean, they were ground breakers. They laid the path that the rest of us are capable of walking now.
01:08:17And if we didn't have the women who were the early pioneers of aviation, then, I mean, I wouldn't be flying today.
01:08:25I mean, I wouldn't be flying today.
01:08:27I mean, I wouldn't be flying today.
01:08:29I mean, I wouldn't be flying today.
01:08:49Sous-titrage MFP.
01:09:19Sous-titrage MFP.
01:09:49Sous-titrage MFP.
01:10:19You can feel at home, but it can be done.
01:10:22You talk like a man who knows women.
01:10:25We'll see, Joe. We'll see.
01:10:27Some of the things I've heard and misconceptions I've heard from people about women in aviation
01:10:38is that can't have the family and be a career woman, too, or how we don't know how to fix a plane.
01:10:46You know, the idea that you're emasculating your husband, possibly if he's not interested in flying, but you are,
01:10:53because obviously airplanes are made for men.
01:10:55I mean, there's so many different social etiquettes that women are supposed to abide by.
01:11:02Even today, if I don't get recognized and I'm taxiing in somewhere in an airplane with two people in it,
01:11:08and I have a guy in the right seat and I'm in the left seat, and I hear this from other women all the time,
01:11:12they always ask the man in the plane for the fuel order.
01:11:16So there's still this conception out there, and it happens all the time.
01:11:19We still have a long way to go.
01:11:21You know, I remember walking into an FBO in my flight suit, and they would ask me if I was the flight attendant,
01:11:28you know, like Air Force on a C-12 or something, and I was, no, I'm the pilot.
01:11:32There was a student pilot on the radios who was a young girl, and she was struggling,
01:11:38and sure enough, I heard someone get on the radio and say another empty kitchen,
01:11:43meaning here's another woman who's attempting to fly rather than being in the kitchen cooking.
01:11:50I think girls get away from STEM in middle school because they are told to look a certain image
01:11:55and stop what they really want to be.
01:11:57There is a societal stigma against women being in STEM fields,
01:12:02and it's this idea that you can't both be feminine and be in STEM fields.
01:12:09The view was that we had to be tough and we had to be macho and, you know, come across kind of tough,
01:12:15and I still get that when I get out of the plane, they're like, oh, you're so small,
01:12:18and oh, you know, you wear earrings and things like that.
01:12:22People expect, you know, they have this stereotype of what a professional athlete
01:12:26or professional pilot should look like, and so it was important to me just to be who I was.
01:12:33Well, the first reaction every time is, what?
01:12:37You're in aviation?
01:12:38How is that possible?
01:12:40And then it's like, well, what do you do?
01:12:42And sometimes, and I love, one of my friends is a pilot,
01:12:45and so it's really funny when we go places and we fly in and they're looking for the guy who flew us there
01:12:52and she's like, no, I got it.
01:12:53I got the keys to the plane.
01:12:55It's okay.
01:12:55We made it.
01:12:56It's not about being the strongest, but it is about flying smart, being smart inside the cockpit
01:13:06and outside the cockpit, being efficient, delegating, thinking about it different,
01:13:13not trying to just strong arm it, but okay, it's not how to do more with less,
01:13:19how do we do it differently?
01:13:21The rocket ship doesn't care if I'm a boy or girl.
01:13:24You know, the airplane doesn't care.
01:13:25The robotic hand controllers don't care.
01:13:29And so from that sense, as long as I can successfully learn the material and complete the tasks,
01:13:36that's how I thought about it.
01:13:38Women make up, what is it, 51% of the population.
01:13:42And so if we're not encouraging women to be in STEM fields,
01:13:47then we're losing out on 50% of the brain power, on 50% of the creativity,
01:13:51on 50% of the different perspectives that we could be having.
01:13:57The most successful work will get done when you bring together, you know, different experiences
01:14:02and different backgrounds to, you know, to achieve something.
01:14:05Whether you're a man or a woman, you're black and white, we're a different religion,
01:14:07and none of that matters when you get into the plane and you're in the air, like,
01:14:11as long as you know what you're doing.
01:14:13I don't always want to be the only one.
01:14:14I think us girls should stand up for each other and be as one and support each other in the STEM field.
01:14:19I think it's really, really important for there to be a mix in aviation, men and women,
01:14:23because women bring a different outlook, a different approach to things.
01:14:28The airplane might not know the difference, but we still have some different approaches to things.
01:14:31And so it's really, really important that we share that with each other,
01:14:36that our contributions are valued.
01:14:40Well, I think that we just need more women in all fields.
01:14:43We as a nation can't be globally competitive and we can't lead the economy.
01:14:46Our military cannot be strong, depending on just 50% of our population.
01:14:52Women are a precious commodity in this country, just as the men are.
01:14:56And so why would we limit ourselves to just half of our population?
01:15:00If we truly want to be competitive, then we need everyone to participate.
01:15:03It's just important for us to be visible.
01:15:07So my little girl, who's two years old, sees all the opportunities and things that she is absolutely capable of.
01:15:15Just because we don't see women there doesn't mean we weren't capable to do it.
01:15:20It doesn't mean we're not capable.
01:15:23Absolutely not.
01:15:25Now we need to make sure we're giving each other the opportunities to get there.
01:15:29And we're not going to wait for a break.
01:15:31We have to make our break.
01:15:32I would tell any girl that is looking to get involved in aviation that you can do whatever you set your mind to.
01:15:43Don't be afraid to go be the only person there.
01:15:46Don't be afraid to be the first.
01:15:48You know, you might be the first person to do something, and that's okay.
01:15:51Research it.
01:15:52Talk to people.
01:15:53Don't be afraid.
01:15:54Don't let fear hold you back.
01:15:56Why let someone else tell you what you can do and what you can't do, or let someone else put an idea into your head of what you can do?
01:16:02You're in control of that.
01:16:04Apply for it.
01:16:04There's nothing that's stopping you from doing it.
01:16:06And you may not like it.
01:16:07I happen to love it and fall in love with it, but if you may not like it, if you don't, then you walk away, but it's on your terms.
01:16:13It would be terrible if you went out into the working world and you had a job that you just hated.
01:16:19I mean, can you imagine getting up in the morning and going to something that you really don't like to do?
01:16:25Try different things and see whether you like doing that and whether you would like doing that every day.
01:16:32You have to love what you're doing to excel at it.
01:16:34And, you know, the word passion, I think, is way overused in this stuff.
01:16:38I don't, you know, find your passion to me is just such a pat thing to say.
01:16:42I would say passion comes when you find what you love.
01:16:45It's something that's a result of that.
01:16:47It's not something people just wake up and have.
01:16:51What I've seen in the aviation world especially is there are so many opportunities to take advantage of, to just get introduced to it.
01:16:59Places like this, I tell you what, you walk through the door of, you know, the office or the little hangar of one of these airports
01:17:07and you seek out the people that are working on airplanes and are excited and love it themselves.
01:17:13They want to share it with you.
01:17:15Aviation is an amazing community and you don't have to be a pilot.
01:17:18I have a lot of friends that are, you know, airport managers, engineers, air traffic controllers.
01:17:24Some advice I would give to a girl who wants to be in aviation or in space exploration is to start working now, join robotics, go online.
01:17:32There are lots of opportunities now for our generation.
01:17:35You're not limited to the community that are physically around you.
01:17:38We have this capacity to have communication around the world in seconds at the touch of a finger.
01:17:45Use that.
01:17:46Go out there.
01:17:47Find other people who have similar passions, similar dreams, or maybe even people who have already done what you want to do.
01:17:53The one piece of advice that I would absolutely have to give is follow your gut, not the conditioned gut, not the one that people taught you to do this, taught you to do that, taught you to do that.
01:18:09Your authentic self, that voice on the inside, you know it's right and it takes guts to do it, but you've got to take action.
01:18:16That voice is you and you're doing it for you.
01:18:22It's not the thing that you do for anybody else.
01:18:26And when people doubt you and don't think you can do it, just because they can't doesn't mean you can't.
01:18:31Do you have your flight log?
01:18:38Yes.
01:18:42Well, last time you taxied over here, do you think he's going to do that again?
01:18:45Eh, probably.
01:18:49Thanks for doing this.
01:18:50Yeah, I appreciate it.
01:18:51How's wrong?
01:18:51See, the color is blue, right?
01:19:05Real light blue.
01:19:06That's what we're looking for, that light blue and no water.
01:19:08All right, I'm going to let you get in on the left seat, just like the pilot we did before.
01:19:12Okay.
01:19:12There it goes.
01:19:19There's some more.
01:19:20And we'll pull us all the way up.
01:19:22Is that enough room for you?
01:19:24No, we need some more.
01:19:26All right.
01:19:26We're close enough.
01:19:27You know, and we've told, like, we've said this before, I mean, a lot of people are like, well, why would you let her fly now?
01:19:34She's too young.
01:19:35She can't fly.
01:19:36She can't get her license until she's 16.
01:19:39I said, yes and no.
01:19:41You're right.
01:19:42Um, but, Joel and I talked about it, and we said, you know, these kids that become professional baseball players, professional, let's just say professional athletes, they don't start playing that sport when they're 18.
01:20:00They've been playing that sport since they were four, five, six years old.
01:20:05So it's kind of the same thing.
01:20:08She's just grooming herself for that.
01:20:11And if she's 18 and chooses not to do this, that's fine, too.
01:20:19Um, she could go in a whole different direction.
01:20:22I would be surprised by that, but it would be fine.
01:20:28I don't know.
01:20:29I don't know what asked.
01:20:30I think she'll always have something to do with aviation.
01:20:33Maybe she won't fly it.
01:20:35Maybe she'll manage the aviation.
01:20:36Maybe she'll do the tower.
01:20:38Maybe she, there's so many different avenues.
01:20:40It's not just flying a plane.
01:20:42Um, I don't know what it's going to be.
01:20:45I have no idea, but she may as well enjoy it.
01:20:48She can do what she wants and be what she wants.
01:20:52And if she enjoys it, I mean, don't they say, like, the best thing in life is you'll never work a day in your life if you do what you love?
01:21:00I'm not sure what type of pilot I want to be when I grow up, because I like the idea of being a firefighter pilot, kind of, or stunt pilot.
01:21:13Astronaut might be cool, but food, not really.
01:21:23And I'm going to let you turn the key and help me start it.
01:21:25All right, you ready?
01:21:37Yes.
01:21:38All right, here we go.
01:21:39Woo-hoo!
01:21:40There they are.
01:21:41You can wave at them.
01:21:44Ha-ha.
01:21:53But I don't see any other airplanes on the screen.
01:21:55So I think we're the only ones out here right now.
01:21:57Ha-ha.
01:22:06What is that?
01:22:09All this?
01:22:10Yes.
01:22:10That's just showing us the land.
01:22:12These are the lakes right by us.
01:22:17The cars look like little toys, don't they?
01:22:19Ha, yeah.
01:22:21Yes, they do.
01:22:22All right, you want to pretend like we're going to Summit Front, the big air show?
01:22:27Yeah.
01:22:27Okay, we've got to slow down and go down lower.
01:22:30Okay.
01:22:30See the road down there?
01:22:32Yeah.
01:22:32This is how we do it.
01:22:33We intercept highway 4.
01:22:36Okay.
01:22:36And we just fly along 4.
01:22:39Okay.
01:22:39Okay.
01:22:39And we're going to have to see us back away.
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