{"id":10449,"date":"2021-04-30T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2021-04-30T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:13:43","slug":"super-student-flies-in-a-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/04\/30\/super-student-flies-in-a-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Student Flies in a Mustang!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
STALLION 51 AND AEROSPACE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE MARK 7 YEARS OF PAYING IT FORWARD AND UPWARD<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Project STRATOS<\/em>\u00a0embodies the Aerospace Center for Excellence\u2019s (ACE) mission to Engage, Educate, and Accelerate the Next Generation of Aerospace Professionals<\/strong>.\u00a0Stallion 51 believes in paying it forward and upward by mentoring those students with an interest in aviation. For the past 7 years, Stallion 51 has partnered with ACE in\u00a0Project STRATOS<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 which encourages high school students to engage in a\u00a0leadership development program.<\/strong>
Each year, Stallion 51 selects one outstanding high school senior who has not only displayed leadership abilities but has extended themselves to help others reach their goals. These exceptional students are contributing to the future of aviation by not only advancing their own knowledge but by bringing others along on their journey of discovery, demonstrating what it truly means to be a\u00a0\u201cFlight Lead\u201d.<\/strong>

The\u00a0Project STRATOS\u00a0winner is rewarded\u00a0with a once-in-a-lifetime experience,\u00a0a flight in a TF-51 Mustang\u00a0with a legendary pilot, Lee Lauderback. To qualify, program finalists must submit an essay. This year\u2019s topic,\u00a0“How would\u00a0you advocate to help keep General Aviation alive?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0addresses the need for General Aviation to nurture advocates in the role of\u00a0keeping aviation accessible and available to the public<\/strong>. Further, each of the finalists met with Stallion 51\u2019s Director of Operations, Angela West for a one-on-one interview.

Congratulations to this year\u2019s \u201cFlight Lead\u201d winner, Juksana Mai Ngam!<\/strong>\u00a0Ms. Mai Ngam received the honor of flying with founder Lee Lauderback in Stallion 51\u2019s TF-51 Mustang \u201cCrazy Horse II\u201d.\u00a0During the flight,\u00a0she had the opportunity to take the controls\u00a0<\/strong>and fly the iconic WWII fighter while Lee instructed her how to perform the maneuvers that won countless aerial battles during WWII.

West was very pleased with this year’s winner, and said, “Jenny is the epitome of all that ACE and\u00a0Project STRATOS<\/em>\u00a0has to offer and stands for.\u00a0She knew she\u00a0liked\u00a0<\/em>aviation and wanted to fly but ACE has opened up the\u00a0aviation world<\/em>\u00a0and all of its incredible opportunities.\u00a0We look forward to following Jenny\u2019s aviation career \u2013 with her,\u00a0the Sky is Just The Beginning!”<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Winning the Project STRATOS<\/em> competition meant that I got to experience a flight in an aircraft that played such an important role in history; it was truly an experience I will never forget,\u201d said Mai Ngam. \u201cAs I get ready to start my career in aviation in the field of human factors, I can apply the first-hand experience <\/strong>of how the G forces affected my performance in the aircraft combined with my thought process as we did different maneuvers in order to maximize safety and reduce human errors in aviation. I am grateful to Stallion 51 and (the) Aerospace Center for Excellence<\/strong> for offering this once in a lifetime opportunity.” ACE Scholarship Director Richele Floyd is very proud of Mai Ngam and all the of program participants, stating that “All of the students that participate in Project STRATOS<\/em> are bright, talented, and well rounded. Thanks to Stallion 51 and our other sponsors, we are able to provide these young adults with rewarding opportunities and professional connections in the aviation industry.”<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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STALLION 51 AND AEROSPACE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE MARK 7 YEARS OF PAYING IT FORWARD AND UPWARD Project STRATOS\u00a0embodies the Aerospace Center for Excellence\u2019s (ACE) mission to Engage, Educate, and Accelerate… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[125,124],"class_list":["post-10449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-aerospace-center-for-excellences-ace","tag-project-stratos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}