person an opportunity to embrace a career as a pilot, perhaps a person that s tried to be a pilot before, but has not quite had the right opportunity or something to held them back. there she is in 1938, the ist ofjune. so she s actually not yet got to her 18th birthday. she s still 17. today, graham showed paul some of molly s mementos, including her first pilot s licence and her old logbook, showing she delivered more than 400 aircraft. she would be thrilled. and she would hope that it would have an impression, would have, you know, that it would give the opportunity to someone who was teetering on the edge of wanting to be, to train as a pilot, and would possibly say, i can t afford it, because it s not exactly an inexpensive thing to take up, and would say, well, the scholarship permits me to do it.
herself a heroine? absolutely not. she would just say, wasn t i lucky to be able to do a job that was so worthwhile? margot looked at molly for a few seconds and smiled. i m so proud of you, molly, she said, and of the pilot that you ve become. do you know when we initially proposed to recruit female pilots into the ata, you were exactly the type of person that i hoped we would find?“ film maker paul was so moved by molly s story, he turned it into a novel and hopes to make a movie. he s also organising a scholarship fund to continue molly s legacy, working with a flight school in cambridge. it can cost around £10,000 to gain a private pilot s license. the scholarship offers a young person an opportunity to embrace a career as a pilot, perhaps a person that s tried to be a pilot before, but not quite had the right opportunity or something to help them back.
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uh, it s okay. i ve played a pilot before. 3-foot tall penguin didn t want to get in the water at first. we knew that. it apparently needed encouragement to leave the crate that had been. once it did finally leave it reportedly began swimming in the wrong direction. the animal turned up in new zealand this summer 3,000 miles away from home and got sick from eating sand. wildlife officials saying it had mistakenly eaten that for snow. after a steady diet of fish milk shakes, the penguin is in good shape. happy feet now has a g.p.s. so officials can keep track of it in the wild. it says it needs one to get home, too. before we go, top five stanley f the day. all systems go for nasa s launch on thursday.
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