I read this quote, from an interview with Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, and the interviewer asked about why she was a pilot and all that, and she just said “I wanted to fly, so I did.” And I thought MAN! I can’t even figure out what to eat for breakfast, never mind sailing through a load of barriers just because I think I want to give something a shot. “Flying? Whatever, I’ll just Do It, it’s 1932 or something, I don’t care.”
Another quote? “What’s the point of flying a plane if you can’t have fun doing it?”
Look at her! We all want to be her.
I love early aviatrices – Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, etc – they were like “oh is there a brand new job on the face of the earth? Think I’ll invite myself to do it before anyone says I can’t.”
Not too much time goes by before Top Gun washes up once again on these shores and that is a fact.
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