Watching the video below of Kimberly Anyadike, I’m struck at how motivated, inspired and just plain sweet this young pilot is. At 15, Anyadike is thought to be the youngest African-American girl to pilot across the country.
She flew 7,000 miles from Compton, CA to Newport News, VA, and back in 13 days. I’m barely brave enough to handle being a passenger in a plane, so the fact she piloted a plane across the country at such a young age is astonishing to me. Anyadike took aviation lessons at Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, an after-school program for disadvantaged youth.

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