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It took her 36 years to realize she wanted to fly. New program will train 5,000 pilots.
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United Airlines First Officer Carole Hopson at her home base of Newark Airport. Hopson became a pilot after careers as a newspaper reporter and corporate executive. United s Aviate Academy, announced Tuesday has a goal to train 5,000 new pilots, with 50% being people of color and women.
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Carole Hopson loved airplanes as a girl, when she used to lay on the grass and watch them fly over her grandmother’s house.
“I wanted to be an airline pilot from the day I can remember wanting to be anything. I was four years old and I used to lie in the grass in my grandmothers’ backyard. It was on the approach path to Philadelphia International Airport and I’d look at the airplanes overhead,” she said. ....

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