Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the Us Aerobatic Team

by Cecilia Aragon

Book Overview

The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told that "girls can't do science" or "women just don't...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982642467
• ISBN13: 9781982642464
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"