Incredible! Here is Jessica Cox, First Licensed pilot who flies a plane with her legs

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Jessica Cox is the world's first licensed armless pilot, as well as the first armless black belt in the American Taekwondo Association. She was born without arms due to a rare birth defect 

Jessica Cox graduated from the university of Arizona in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in communications 

Cox has not used prosthetic arms since she turned 14 . Using her feet as most people use their hands, she is able among other things to drive an unmodified car with an unrestricted license, to type on a keyboard at 25 words per minute, to pump her own gas and to put in and remove her contact lenses. She is also a certified SCUBA Dribver.

She flew in a single engine plane for the first time via Wright Flight in 2005. Cox earned her pilot's certificate on October 10, 2008, after three years of training, and is qualified to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes 10,000 feet. She received her flight training through an able Flight scholarship and soloed under the instruction of  parrish traweek

                              

At the age of 10, Cox began training in taekwondo at a school in her hometown sierra vista. At the age of 14 she earned her first black belt. While in College at the University of Arizona, Cox restarted her taekwondo training at an American taekwondo Association club on campus.  In an effort to help the future students without the use of arms the instructors created an entire training curriculum by modifying the standard material from the ATA, For an example , instead of a punch cox executes a knee strike. 

Cox has since gone on to earn her second and third degree black belts in ATA. Cox has also earned the tittle of 2014 Arizona state champions in forms . It should be noted that she did not compete in a special ability ring.

Her Sport Pilot certificate is for an ERCO 415-C Ercoupe which the federal Aviation Administrations has designated a light sport aircraft. Designed in the 1940s, the europe, the Ercoupe was built without rudder pedals, instead the rudder is interconnected with the ailerons through the yoke. The unique design allows Cox to control the airplane  with one foot  controlling the yoke while the other foot controls the throttle.

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Kind cool to find out someone with such a disadvantage still takes advantage

A disadvantage turn advantage