'I never expected a young girl from Afghanistan who was a refugee would be the seventh woman to successfully fly solo around the world. But that girl did it,' Shaesta Waiz, the youngest woman to fly solo around the world in a single-engine airplane, said.
You know how I see the airplane is that it’s an extension of my hand.
My family and I came to the United States as refugees in 1987, which at that time, it was the peak of the Soviet-Afghan war. And when my family came to the United States, they settled in a small town called Richmond, California. I had this idea of flying a small, a single-engine airplane around the world to bring STEM and aviation to young girls and boys in communities where the percentage of STEM and aviation professionals were low. I started a nonprofit organization called Dreams Soar and within the course of three years, we were able to fundraise, acquire an aircraft, establish the route and really prepare for this amazing journey around the world.
What's so fascinating about engineering is that you just take something that's perfectly fine in the state that it's in, and you can engineer it to make it better. And in my case engineer it so that I could fly further.
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