Saturday marks International Girls in Aviation Day, and Bay Area scholars took point on the celebration.
students celebrated the day at Reid Hillview airport and spoke with KTVU on how they want to inspire the next generation of girls who want to be pilots.Lalor is the president of the university's Women in Aviation Club. Flying caught her attention during an interaction with a pilot on a family vacation.
"I've been in aviation for 30 years and under 10% of commercial pilots are female aviators, and that hasn't changed really in 30 years, and we're out here trying to show if you can see it, you can be it," said SJSU Aviation Instructor Wendy Mora.For International Girls in Aviation Day, United Airlines hosted about a dozen middle school students to tour the jetliner and cockpit and to learn more about the world of aviation.
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