She departed with a dream and returned home a record-breaker.

Inspired by the Tuskeegee Airmen, 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike flew a single-engine Cessna cross-country from her hometown of Compton, Calif., to Newport News, Va.

Anyadike is thought to be the youngest African American female pilot to complete the journey, which took 13 days. She arrived home in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 11.

Anyadike learned to fly at age 12 through the Compton-based Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, which offers aviation lessons in an after-school program for disadvantaged youths, the Los Angeles Times reported. It was their plane that she flew on her cross-country trip.

The brave teenager came up with the idea for the trip on her own, the museum’s founder, Robert Petgrave, told the Times.

“I told her it was going to be a daunting task, but she just said, ‘Put it on. I got big shoulders,’” Petgrave said.

Along for the historic ride were an adult safety pilot and 87-year-old Levi Thornhill, one of the Tuskeegee Airmen during World War II.

“They left such a great legacy,” Anyadike said of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ all-black combat unit. “I had big shoes to fill. … All they wanted to do was to be patriots for this country. They were told no, that they were stupid, that they didn’t have cognitive development to fly planes. They didn’t listen. They just did what they wanted to do.”

About 50 Tuskeegee Airmen autographed the young pilot’s plane during her journey, the Times reported.

“I wanted to inspire other kids to really believe in themselves,” Anyadike said.


http://www.naijanewsrave.com/15-year-old-nigerian-becomes-youngest-american-female-to-pilot-plane-cross-country/

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I came to check her name & ain't disappointed..




Kimberly Anyadike keep repping

this is good news.....no idiot(bigot) should tribalise this thread ooo...

Monalisa185:
this is good news.....no idiot(bigot) should tribalise this thread ooo...

that poster above u just did what u said now..

Chai!!! Where some adults never knew how to ride a bike... Chai!!!

BeeBeeOoh:
that poster above u just did what u said now..

I'm sure the poster above me already took the name 'tribal idiot (bigot)

Nice, and me sef can't even drive a car feels so scary

Monalisa185:


I'm sure the poster above me already took the name 'tribal idiot (bigot)

and that must have made you start considering suicide as the next option??

BeeBeeOoh:
and that must have made you start considering suicide as the next option??

suicide? hahaha... because you took a name that suites you??


you must sleeping on a moving bicycle...

Monalisa185:


suicide? hahaha... because you took a name that suites you??


you must sleeping on a moving bicycle...

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Great but nothing on earth will make me be a passenger on that plane if the situation present itself.