Mind It! » Inspiration http://blog.samishra.com Just another superficial blog! Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:57:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Video: Flying with her legs – Jessica Cox http://blog.samishra.com/2009/09/05/video-flying-with-her-legs-jessica-cox/ http://blog.samishra.com/2009/09/05/video-flying-with-her-legs-jessica-cox/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:38:06 +0000 Santosh http://blog.samishra.com/?p=162 You must have read the earlier post about the Armless Girl Gets A Pilot License, well, here is a video of the talented Jessica Cox.
Jessica Cox also has her own website, http://www.rightfooted.com/, and is a motivational speaker, also drives a car, has a black belt at taekwondo, uses a computer and otherwise lives a normal life. She is so adept at using her feet, she is even able to insert her contact lenses and apply makeup using only her feet. In her role as a motivational speaker, Jessica has inspired audiences across the United States.
God bless her.
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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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