lettersfromtitan:shananaomi:noirbettie:365daysofjolie:I had asked Jolie a few days ago if I could fl
lettersfromtitan:shananaomi:noirbettie:365daysofjolie:I had asked Jolie a few days ago if I could fly with her, and she told me she had never taken a passenger up before but would think about it. When I arrived at the photo shoot, I told her that I mentioned to my mother that I might fly with her and that my mother did not like the idea one bit. Jolie laughed it off. Now, as I am watching her kick off her stilettos (she pilots barefoot) and step up onto the wing of her little white plane, she stops for a second and stares at me standing off to the side. There is a glint in her eye. A big smile spreads across her face. “Let’s go scare your mother,” she says.Only as I am jammed in the back next to Leibovitz, bumping along the dinky little runway, does the reality of what I’m doing sink in. I imagine the headline: ANGELINA JOLIE AND ANNIE LEIBOVITZ DIE IN PLANE CRASH NEAR LAS VEGAS. I try to remember who went down with Patsy Cline, but I can’t. I am about to become a trivia question. I tell myself this will be a suitably fabulous way to die, and just like that we are in the air, floating above the desert, and my nerves are gone. “I’ll do some tight turns,” says Jolie. “Maddox likes it when there are g-forces.” [x]Of course Angelina Jolie flies airplanes. God, I think I love her.you are never, ever, ever going to win a game of chicken with angelina jolie. holy fuck. Only three out of every 1,000 people in the U.S. is a general aviation pilot.Of those, only about 15% are active.Of those, only about 6% are women.Learning to fly is expensive and possibly not at all what you imagine. (I know how, but am not currently licensed). I loved nothing more than climbing around on my plane to do checks before take off.If you’re not a normative white dude, aviation can feel like a really really challenging lonely space to be in,often because history of female, PoC, and queer pilots has been erased, not told, or kept secret. But we’ve always been flying. But if you want to do the thing, you should. And you should tell us about it, so that more girls and PoC and members of Team Queer take to the skies. -- source link