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Cargando... Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Teampor Cecilia Aragon
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Remarkable and inspiring memoir about a woman who defied the odds. The daughter of immigrants growing up in the Midwest, no one outside her family expected Cecilia Aragon to amount to much. She was timid and incredibly fearful. But then she decided to face her fears by learning to fly planes! Her journey is gripping and exciting, and I couldn't put the book down. It kept me up late because I needed to learn what was going to happen next. After I finished the book, I felt inspired and encouraged. Like I could accomplish anything in life! The book reads like an exciting adventure novel. It should be made into a movie. Are you listening, Hollywood?
Cecilia Aragon is no less than a thrilling inspiration to anyone who wants to accomplish something that frightens them or who has been discouraged from trying.
The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told that "girls can't do science" or "women just don't know how to handle machines." Yet in the span of just six years, Cecilia became the first Latina pilot to secure a place on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and earn the right to represent her country at the Olympics of aviation, the World Aerobatic Championships. How did she do it? Using mathematical techniques to overcome her fear, Cecilia performed at air shows in front of millions of people. She jumped out of airplanes and taught others how to fly. She learned how to fund-raise and earn money to compete at the world level. She worked as a test pilot and contributed to the design of experimental airplanes, crafting curves of metal and fabric that shaped air to lift inanimate objects high above the earth. And best of all, she surprised everyone by overcoming the prejudices people held about her because of her race and her gender. Flying Free is the story of how Cecilia Aragon broke free from expectations and rose above her own limits by combining her passion for flying with math and logic in unexpected ways. You don't have to be a math whiz or a science geek to learn from her story. You just have to want to soar. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a remarkable book, and Aragon tells her story with warmth, eloquence and humour. I particularly liked how she applied the lessons of mathematics to calm her fears and push herself on to try new things. I loved reading about all the planes. The only thing this book was missing was pictures of the planes, although I suppose one can Google the model names.
I did find it puzzling that her boyfriend, then husband, was referred to as Ben throughout the book, then the acknowledgements called him Dave. Did she marry someone else? The timeline didn’t seem to work for it to be two different people, so I was rather confused by that.
I would recommend this if you like stories of women doing amazing things, stories about pilots, or both. ( )