and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward into the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace really was not a name in my young life, but flying airplanes was. and i got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s barn when i was about 5 years old. and then i was allowed to make airplanes out of blocks of wood and hang them from my ceiling. when i went on it to college, i was allowed to take flying as my mother had dearly loved flying and her father wouldn t allow her to, so they encouraged me then to go on into my aviation career. i was at a girls school for two years, got my private there. then i went on to oklahoma state university who was the best flight school in the united states at that time from, say, the mid- 50s on to the 70s and i m an international judge for safe con, performances forral schools, universities and colleges, so now i m giving back the safety that i ve learned over my 44 years of