Armless Girl Gets A Pilot License
Oxford and Cambridge have now decided to remove the words CAN'Tand
IMPOSSIBLEfrom 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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