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Aviation Hotshot 2020-12-03
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In an age when women were "seen and not heard" or even given any credence of humanity and equality, never mind the right to vote, stories like this made history.

Whoever surmounted personal hardships and harsh living conditions to follow their dreams were ignored and denied recognition at every turn.Then one young woman rose from humble beginnings and overcame almost insurmountable obstacles to become the first Black & Native American woman to achieve her pilot's license.Her name was Bessie Coleman.

Bessie's story is one that is all too familiar to people of color and especially significant for a woman of mixed heritage.

Bessie overcame all the obstacles in her path, even traveling to France to achieve her pilot's license!

All because no flight school in America would enroll a woman of color in their flight training program!This article is not about the Bessie Coleman story, which in itself is an outstanding achievement, but to shine a light on the injustices that still exist today that deny women of color an equal opportunity in the world of Aviation.

In 2000, Bessie was inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame!What this article is about, however, is to share with you an important project that I am working on in collaboration with the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) through their STEM program.

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Aviation Hotshot 2020-10-22
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Well, it is definitely on the horizon and only a few years away from being an accepted mode of travel.However, lots of innovation and new technology, especially in the batteries that power these aircraft are undergoing all manner of extreme testing.

To ensure that the challenges that faced the electric vehicle industry would be a thing of the past before batteries would be relied on to power aircraft!

You can pull over to the side of the road and run away if your car battery lets you down, or catches on fire.Unfortunately, you won’t be able to do that in the air!

So Electric Powered airplanes need an assured source of energy that will not be subject to the issues that faced the electric vehicle industry since its market entry.

Fires in aircraft are the worst type of airborne emergency that any pilot faces in their career.Even though a lot of engineering and research is underway with larger passenger aircraft, the situation with batteries are a more critical challenge to be resolved.

This is due to the size and weight of batteries to power larger aircraft.Engineering studies have concluded that larger size passenger aircraft will not be powered by electricity for the foreseeable future.

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Aviation Hotshot 2020-12-03
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In an age when women were "seen and not heard" or even given any credence of humanity and equality, never mind the right to vote, stories like this made history.

Whoever surmounted personal hardships and harsh living conditions to follow their dreams were ignored and denied recognition at every turn.Then one young woman rose from humble beginnings and overcame almost insurmountable obstacles to become the first Black & Native American woman to achieve her pilot's license.Her name was Bessie Coleman.

Bessie's story is one that is all too familiar to people of color and especially significant for a woman of mixed heritage.

Bessie overcame all the obstacles in her path, even traveling to France to achieve her pilot's license!

All because no flight school in America would enroll a woman of color in their flight training program!This article is not about the Bessie Coleman story, which in itself is an outstanding achievement, but to shine a light on the injustices that still exist today that deny women of color an equal opportunity in the world of Aviation.

In 2000, Bessie was inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame!What this article is about, however, is to share with you an important project that I am working on in collaboration with the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) through their STEM program.

Aviation Hotshot 2020-10-22
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Well, it is definitely on the horizon and only a few years away from being an accepted mode of travel.However, lots of innovation and new technology, especially in the batteries that power these aircraft are undergoing all manner of extreme testing.

To ensure that the challenges that faced the electric vehicle industry would be a thing of the past before batteries would be relied on to power aircraft!

You can pull over to the side of the road and run away if your car battery lets you down, or catches on fire.Unfortunately, you won’t be able to do that in the air!

So Electric Powered airplanes need an assured source of energy that will not be subject to the issues that faced the electric vehicle industry since its market entry.

Fires in aircraft are the worst type of airborne emergency that any pilot faces in their career.Even though a lot of engineering and research is underway with larger passenger aircraft, the situation with batteries are a more critical challenge to be resolved.

This is due to the size and weight of batteries to power larger aircraft.Engineering studies have concluded that larger size passenger aircraft will not be powered by electricity for the foreseeable future.