12/09/2008

Forget "No shirt, no service" How about "No arms, flies plane!"

I have put some really cool dis-abled people, and the things they can do on this blog but this might be the best one yet.


"- I never say, `I can`t do that`. I just say, `I haven`t worked it out yet`. I`ve been terrified and fascinated of flying for as long as I can remember - said 25-year-old Jessica Cox, born without hands, world media report."



"She is the first person to have managed flying a plane without arms: with her feet. This is also how she writes, drives, answers her mobile phone or applies make-up, among other things.



Flying is, she says, a fascinating feeling, and before liftoff in a specially adjusted plane, she went through three years of special training.



She has also attained a degree in psychology and is the owner of a double black belt in Tae Kwon-Do, and has not used her arm prosthetics since she was 13 years old.



Her only fear was flying, but after three years of flying a plane in flying school and 89 flying lessons with an instructor, she has mastered this class.



Now, Jessica is studying to become a flight instructor, because, she says, she wants to help other disabled persons to learn how to fly."

Photo taken from Jessica's website

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