Meet the world's first armless pilot, Jessica Cox
Anirudh
3:35 PM
Jessica cox never saw her not having arms as an obstacle to achieving her goals. She even ditched the prosthetic arms she wore from the age of three to 14 because she believed her feet her tactile enough. That's why when she wanted to become a licenced pilot, she found a way. Cox found a specific plans with less controls so she could have her feet in convenient positions; she flies a 1945 Cope airplane. Cox gained her pilot license in 2008, after three years of training, 80 hours of flying in three different states, three different flight instructors, and three different airplanes. Cox also swims, plays piano and practices Taekwondo-she's is the first armless blackbelt in the American Taekwondo Association.