Did I mention that Jessica will be flying with us in the Ercoupe
Caravan into AirVenture this year?
Syd
On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Caliendo Dan wrote:
If she can do the dzuz fasteners, I'm really impressed.
Dan
Impressive young woman. I'm sure her parents are also!
Oxford and Cambridge have now decided to remove the words CAN'T
and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries...
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Jessica Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside an
aircraft. The girl from Tucson, Arizona got the Sport Pilot
certificate lately and became the first pilot licensed to fly using
only her feet.
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Jessica Cox of Tucson was born without arms, but that has only
stopped her from doing one thing: using the word "can't."
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Her latest flight into the seemingly impossible is becoming the
first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.
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With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding
the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot
certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport
aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet.
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"She's a good pilot. She's rock solid," said Parrish Traweek, 42,
the flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport.
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Parrish Traweek runs PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services
and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to
Cox's abilities.
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"When she came up here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew
she'd have no problem flying a plane."
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Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she
figured out early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic devices.
Jessica Cox, 25, earned a license to fly airplanes on October 10,
2008. Jessica also has two black belts in Tae Kwan-Do, a college
degree in Psychology, and a thriving career as a motivational
speaker. What doesn't Jessica Cox have? Arms. A bilateral
congenital limb deficiency doesn't stop Ms. Cox from achieving and
surpassing her goals. From birth on, her feet became her hands.
She can drive a car, type 25 words per minute, and fly an airplane
using her feet, without any special adaptations. She is the first
woman without arms to earn a license to fly.
Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Celebrate the moment with your favorite
sports pics. Check it out.
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