The youngest pilot to fly in the US
It was on September 12, 1929, when Elula Pearl Carter took her first solo flight at the age of 13 and became the youngest pilot in United States history. Pearl was born to George and Lucy Carter on December 9, 1915, in Marlow, Oklahoma. Mr. Carter a businessman who became blind at the age of 16 and Mrs. Lucinda Gibson, an original Chickasaw enrollee. Despite George’s disability, he always taught his children to never give up.
As evidence of his teachings, Pearl once said her father assured her that she could do just about anything. This seems to have been of great inspiration to Pearl who thought that she would need to try because he could not, and she could.
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