Young Women Encouraged to take up Aviation as a Career
Dec 29, 2020
A passion for aviation and a burning need to give back to the community breathed life into the Plane Project. In 2014, South African Pilot Kelly Slingers headed up a project that would drive interest in aviation among young underprivileged girls.
While speaking to Radio Islam, Slingers said her interest in aviation sparked in 2011 when she was introduced to a pilot who gave her, her first introductory flight – the rest she says is history.
“You are sitting at the controls of a machine and as you take off the earth below you gets smaller and smaller and its magic, its magic!”