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Black Girl Sets Aviation Record
July 14th, 2009
A 15-year-old Black girl from L.A. became the youngest African-American female pilot to make a solo flight across the United States. When Kimberly Anyadike landed her single-engine Cessna at Compton Woodley Airport Saturday, she was greeted by dozens of cheering admirers. She had taken off from Compton 13 days earlier with an adult safety pilot and an 87-year-old former Tuskegee Airman who served in World War II. Together, they flew to Newport News, Va., and made about a dozen stops along the way. “I wanted to inspire other kids to really believe in themselves,” said Anyadike, who learned to fly a plane and helicopter at 12 years old with the Compton-based Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum. She said she didn’t make the trip to set any records, only to honor the Tuskegee Airmen, the U.S. Army Air Corps’ all-Black WWII combat unit. “They left such a great legacy. I had big shoes to fill,” she said. “All they wanted to do was to be patriots for this country. They were told no, that they were stupid, that they didn’t have cognitive development to fly planes. They didn’t listen. They just did what they wanted to do.”
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There you go little lady.It’s youth such as yourself that inspire so many other youth to believe that they can. We all proud of you.
Beautiful. When all hope is lost for anything positive to come out of California, let alone Compton this young lady rises. Please keep up the hard work and continue to inspire many.
Absolutely beautiful! Brings tears to my eyes. God bless her. God bless her.
We as Black folks are very proud of you my dear
good job.
keep up the good work and may god bless you always.
wow i’m very happy 4 her! congrates!!!!!!!
Well done young lady, well done…Please continue to inspire the youth of today. You can do anything you put your mind to. Very well example of that you are…BRAVO!!!
This is a great story which should get a lot more media coverage. I’d like to see this event remembered in Black History Month. Kimberly Anyadike deserves to be remembered as the Amelia Earhart of the 21st Century! She is a young lady who is worthy of emulation!
Thanks for the support!
You can meet Kimberly and her sister Kelly, tons of Tuskegee Airmen and NASA’s first black female astronaut Mae Jemison at our semi-annual “Legacy- A Tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen” fundraising dinner and auction in L.A. on July 25th. Up for bids is a private lunch with BerNadatte Stanis who played Thelma on “Good Times”. If you can’t make the dinner, please consider buying a ticket or a table to donate to one of the kids in the program, as everyone has to pay to get in- even the boss! You can also join our Aviation Angels program here http://www.tamuseum.org to help other great kids like Kimberly dream big and achieve big!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love my Black people!!!!!!!!
IN THE BNAME OF ALLAH – THE BENEFICENT – THE MERCIFUL:SAY:HE,ALLAH IS ONE.ALLAH IS HE ON WHOM ALL DEPEND.HE BEGETS NOT,NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN.AND NONE IS LIKE HIM.[QUR'AN;112]-” EDUCATION IS OUR PASSPORT TO THE FUTURE.TOMORROW BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE WHO PREPARE FOR IT TODAY.” [MALCOLM X]..MAY ALLAH BLESS SITER KIMBERLY ANYADIKE AND HER FAMILY AND THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN FOR YOUTH TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS IN AVIATION ALLAH’U'AKBAR.SEIZE THE THE TIME YOUTH IN THE WORLD.HOW IS THIS MONUMENTAL FEAT BEING SHOWN IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ?TAIF’TUL’ISLAM-P.O.BOX 338-COMPTON,CA.90223- DAWAH_MA_90221@YAHOO.COM
Just awesome! Just awesome!
Will Oprah hear about this and have her on her show? She needs to be recognized and acknowledged.
THIS GOES TO PROOVE THAT ALL NIGERIANS ARE NOT BAD. I WAS WAITING TO SEE IF THEY WILL MENTION THAT THIS GIRL IS A PROUD CHILD OF BOTH NIGERIAN PARENTS VERY WELL EDUCATED AND GREAT CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS SOCIETY. WE HAVE TAKEN SO MUCH FROM THIS SOCIETY, WE HAVE ALSO CONTRIBUTED VERY MUCH IN GIVING OUR LEARNED TALENTS AND EDUCATION BACK TO THIS SAME COUNTRY THAT IS NOW A MELTING PORT FOR YOU AND ME.
VERY PROUD OF YOUR RECORDS MS KIM ANYADIKE. OUR BLACK COMMUNITY SALUTES YOU SO ALSO YOUR IBO NIGERIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD “NDEWO”.
Anybody could have done that! She be one of them rich carlton banks fools that should be sharing they money with the rest of the poor black community. Instead she be rubbing in our faces that we is poor and dumb. I speak for all of us hood figgaz who might just catch her and put her in her place as one of our baby mamas.
On the fo reals
this is outstanding am proud of the black race
ebube, Nigeria
“Anybody could have done that! She be one of them rich carlton banks fools that should be sharing they money with the rest of the poor black community. Instead she be rubbing in our faces that we is poor and dumb. I speak for all of us hood figgaz who might just catch her and put her in her place as one of our baby mamas.
On the fo reals ”
SOMETHING TELLS ME THAT A BLACK PERSON DID NOT WRITE THIS…DERONTAY? GET A LIFE AND GET OFF OUR WEBSITE THANK YOU. WHO SAYS “FO REALS”?
KIMBERLY ANYADIKE A NIGERIA ? NOW AMERICANS TELL ME THAT GOOD THINGS DON’T COME OUT OF NIGERIA..OR AFRICA IN GENERAL
KIMBERLY ANYADIKE FOR YOUR WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT I WILL GIVE YOU THE TITLES THAT YOU DESERVE
1.ODOZIE AKU LOLO OZO 1 OF IGBOLAND
2.NKU MMIRI NA GORO OHA 1 OF IGBOLAND