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Oxford and
Cambridge
have now decided to remove the words CAN'T and
IMPOSSIBLE from their
dictionary
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.
Jessica Cox of
Tucson was born without arms, but that has only stopped her from doing one
thing: using the word "can't."
Her
latest flight into the seemingly impossible is becoming the first pilot
licensed to fly using only her feet.
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..
"She's a good
pilot. She's rock solid," said Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor
at San Manuel's
Ray
Blair
Airport .
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.
"When she came up
here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem
flying a plane."
Doctors never
learned why she was born without arms, but she figured out early on that
she didn't want to use prosthetic devices.
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